16 Metaphors for rent

Vainly I have aspired too high; I'm on a level but with such as thou; Me the great spirit scorn'd, defied; Nature from me herself doth hide; Rent is the web of thought; my mind Doth knowledge loathe of every kind.

to think of our little rent being more than half his income!

The rent of the marginal land will be nil, because it will not pay to cultivate it, if any appreciable rent is charged.

Rent is thus logically the simpler, price the more complex thing.

The rent of their little shop, tenement and garden, was five pounds a year; and a few pennies earned by the youngest of them were of great account.

The rents of these tenants, usually about half the gross produce, are the basis of the livelihood of the gentry.

For instance, the rent of a pleasant parlor and bedroom on the second floor was thirty-four shillings a week, including fire and gas,$8.50, gold.

The rent of the Charlestown house was seven hundred dollars a year, and the last words of his mother had been to the effect that two hundred was the limit he must offer for the yellow house, as she did not see clearly at the moment how they could afford even that sum.

Robbery, if you could get to the bottom of it, was bad, as was all violence; but taxation was robbery, rent was robbery, prices fixed according to the desire of the seller and not in obedience to justice, were robbery.

Aurora had a faith that the rent would be paida faith which was only a vapor, but a vapor gilded by the sunthat is, by Apollo, or, to be still more explicit, by Honoré Grandissime.

House-rent is dearer in proportion with other articles of living, and the taxes are daily augmenting.

Rent is naturally the first item in the poor man's budget.

The rent in the canoe was the only thing that seemed quite inexplicable; and, after all, it was conceivable that a sharp point had caught it when we landed.

The day after rent falls due, he may proceed to recover it, by action at law, by distress on the premises, or by action of ejectment, if the rent is half a year in arrear.

Meantime, the rents of the mines are an object.

* * House-rent, that great bugbear of certain economists, is indeed a grievous affair at Sydney, as page 20 proves: Behold me established at Sydney, in a small house, a poor vamped-up building, more inconvenient, and far more ugly, than you can imagine, for which I pay a rent of £250 a year.

16 Metaphors for  rent