The landlord was no match for that name, so disagreeably redolent of Lynch and ashes.

He had halted some five leagues beyond Crandlemar at an inn remote from the highway, the landlord of which was a monk, dissembling his name to Jacques Dempsy of the Cow and Horn, and his religion to anything that was the king's pleasure.

His pace was never that of an old man: I almost see him tripping down the path With his two grandsons after him:but you, 230 Unless our Landlord be your host to-night, Have far to travel,and on these rough paths Even in the longest day of midsummer Leonard.

The other wrist was instantly handcuffed, and within a few minutes both landlord and clerk were helpless prisoners on their way to the police station.

The landlord's was the least loud, the schoolmaster's the loudest of all.

"The landlord is a friend of mine, a very worthy man.

The wealthiest landlord is only a peasant.

The landlord was no match for that name, so disagreeably redolent of Lynch and ashes.

Our landlord, Monsieur Ferrand, was a rough, vigorous man, with a gloomy, discontented expression; his words were few and blunt; but a certain restlessness of manner, and a secret flashing of his cold, forbidding eye betrayed to me some strong hidden excitement.

By this time his servant had blabbed his name; and the story of the duel at Oxford being known, with some faint savour of his fashion, the landlord was his most obedient, and would fain have guided his honour to the place cap in hand.

'The ground landlord, Mr. John Bellingham; is not he the gentleman who disappeared so mysteriously some time ago?'

To confirm which, she got a letter from him, three days later, very loving and cheerful, telling how, his landlord being a carpenter, he did amuse himself mightily at his old trade in the workshop, and was all agog for learning to turn wood in a lathe, promising that he would make her a set of egg-cups against her birthday, please God.

The landlord of the "Foul Anchor," then, was early a-foot, to gain an honest penny from any of the supporters of the former system who might chance to select his bar for their morning sacrifices to Bacchus, in preference to that of his neighbour, he who endeavoured to entice the lieges, by exhibiting a red-faced man, in a scarlet coat, that was called the "Head of George the Second."

At Lawrenceburg, where we put up for the night, the landlord was also stage proprietor and a slave holder.

The present landlord was a very different sort of man, less affable, not disposed to show himself to every comer.

"The landlord of the premises was the owner of a block of twelve housessix on Pearl street, and six on Broadway, the lots meeting midway between the two streets.

Their landlord, the Marchese Garbarino, was an ardent patriot.

It put me in great glee that our landlord was an Englishman.

Thus, sir, the landlord and his guest were the constant enemies of each other, and spent their lives in mutual complaints, injuries, and insults.

Our landlord was a sensible fellow; he had learned his grammar, and Dr. Johnson justly observed, that 'a man is the better for that as long as he lives.'

'When you come to think of it, sir,' said the landlord, 'it's the spiders who are the real owners of these houses.

The landlord is one Kookoo, an ancient Creole of doubtful purity of blood, who in his landlordly old age takes all suggestions of repairs as personal insults.

They soon ascertained that the landlord was a follower of the Parliament.

As the landlords were always the first sufferers from popular uprisings as well as from war, they had disappeared, leaving their former tenants as free peasants.

The landlord in turn received from his underlings services and goods in kind (food and supplies) and so (in modern eyes) was both a collector of taxes and a receiver of rent.