97 adjectives to describe proprietors

Undoubtedly the social atmosphere has cleared; moreover, I am for the first time in my life a landed proprietor.

The old lady generally spoke of him as if she were the chief if not the sole proprietor of the boy.

If a wealthy proprietor died under circumstances which excited suspicion of foul play, his whole household was put to torture.

The lake was kept by the native proprietor as a fish preserve, and literally teemed with fish of all sorts, shapes, and sizes.

A cousin and I were joint proprietors.

This extremely unsatisfactory condition of telegraph rivalry drifted on from bad to worse until 1854, when, from dire necessity of self-preservation, a few of the more prudent and far-sighted proprietors of telegraph property were induced to combine their interests with some of their competitors and thus avoid the ruinous policy which had been so rapidly exhausting their vitality.

The principal proprietor of the circus told pa to make himself at home around the tent, and not be offended at any pleasantry on the part of the attaches of the show, for they were full of fun, and he went off to attend to some business and left pa with the gang.

Each householder, therefore, though an absolute proprietor, cannot be called a miniature lord of the manor, because there exists no permanent dependent class such as is implied in the use of such a phrase.

Let thieves give up what they had stolen to the lawful proprietors, cease stealing, and begin at once to "labor, working with their hands," for necessary and charitable purposes.

We were glad to obtain the endorsement of an influential proprietor to the testimony of practical planters.

In one of his reveries, however, it fell from the side-box, where he was sitting, into the pit, where a wag, who picked it up, hoisted it upon the end of a stick, that it might be claimed by its rightful proprietor.

Land was better protected when held of a powerful chieftain than when held in one's own right; and hence the practice of commendation, by which free allodial proprietors were transformed into the tenants of a lord, became fashionable and was gradually extended to all kinds of estates.

Another fact was, that Mr. Wright was the only resident sugar proprietor in all that region of country.

He was bound to give a portion of the profits of his land to his lordly proprietor; and he was bound to render services in war.

I think his opinion will be different from Sir J. Malcolm'sthe latter wishing to make the Jaghires hereditary, or rather to give a fee simple interest to the actual proprietor.

Can we be blamed, if, in a strain truly lachrymal, we allude to the deductions which have annually been made from the miserable return which 1833 gave to the unfortunate proprietors of estates?

The nominal proprietor was not leaving it because he was losing money on the boarding-house, but because he had lost money in another enterprise quite foreign to it, and had pledged all the contents of the boarding-house as security.

The Birmingham Morning News was carried on for some four years at a very considerable loss, and just when it seemed to be about to turn the corner and get into a more profitable groove, its capitalist proprietor gave it up in disappointment and disgust.

I am not very well acquainted with the life and adventures of this Saint, but he was of the Borromean family, who are the most opulent proprietors of the Milanese.

To this park there are three entrances, and at every avenue the worthy proprietor has erected an elegant lodge, from whence there are capacious carriage roads to the mansion.

He looked up to see standing there the little fat Alsatian-German-French proprietor of the hotel.

Here are quarters specially devoted to the aristocratic landed proprietors, and others to the busy merchants.

The facts are, that the absent proprietors have been led by the advice they have received from their attorneys; and these have had so many ways of making more than an honest commission, and have so speedily made their fortunes, that as long as they could continue slavery, they have exerted every influence.

Of a more normal but less conspicuous type was Jehu Jones, the colored proprietor of one of Charleston's most popular hotels who lived in the same manner as his white patrons, accumulated property to the value of some forty thousand dollars, and maintained a reputation for high business talent and integrity.

M. Gritz, it may be said, was the enterprising proprietor of the Ansonia, this being the last and most brilliant of his creations for cheering the rich and hungry wayfarer.

97 adjectives to describe  proprietors