On similar grounds, it has often occurred to me that the proprietors of the London cabs must be chiefly hatters.

The proprietor of Edgecome is a native of Barbadoes, of polished manners and very liberal views.

" The proprietor of this land, and indeed of the whole parish, was a retired warrior, Colonel Clifford.

They were simply the victims, as the earlier proprietors had been the victims before them.

The establishment failed, and the proprietor became a bankrupt.

Being a man of great prominence and known to be wealthy, the proprietor of Mount Vernon was the recipient of many requests for assistance.

The proprietor was somebody's chauffeur at the front, and we drank to his excellent health) at a little village in a twilight full of the petrol of many cars and the wholesome flavour of healthy troops.

Among these volunteers for that terrible service, are the following names of Marshpee Indians, proprietors of Marshpee, viz.

We may therefore conclude, that the more considerable proprietors of land were, without any election, constituent members of the national assembly; there is reason to think that forty hides, or between four and five thousand acres, was the estate requisite for entitling the possessor to this honourable privilege.

The proprietor of the hotel where we breakfasted was a country doctor, who passed in that region as a man of great wisdom.

The proprietor of Hyde Park is Dr. David Hosack, a gentleman well known in the literary and scientific worldthe Sir Joseph Banks of America.

The present proprietor of Craigdarrock is Captain Robert Ferguson, of the fourth generation in direct descent from Annie Laurie.

They generally had gable ends opening on to the street, but were so different in breadth, altitude, and form, that it was easy to see that each enterprising proprietor had been his own architect.

A story is told of how that hotel had filled with officers after the arrival of the Germanic flood and how one day, when it was learned that the proprietor was a Frenchman, guards were suddenly placed at the doors and the hall was filled with luggage as every officer, acting with characteristic official solidarity, vacated his room and bestowed his presence elsewhere.

The proprietor of the club may be a Musalman; his patrons may be Hindus, Christians or Chinese; and the dreams which riot across the semi-consciousness of the latter are not concerned as a rule with heroes of either the spiritual or temporal kind.

"Any landed proprietor here can become a rebel general in exchange for his estate!

Another great evil was, that the proprietors, to a considerable extent, were absentees; residing in England, and leaving the care of their estates and slaves to managers and owners; the last people for such a trust, and utterly unfit to carry the wretched victims of their tyranny through the solemn transition from slavery to freedom.

The proprietor was Roderick Alfonzo, secretary of the customs to the king of Portugal, by whom the original stock of goats had been carried to this place.

The proprietor of the hotel where he lodged became his bail.

When made out and interpreted, it comes to this: the proprietor, the waiter, chambermaid, and boots are independent parties, who get up a night's lodging and two or three meals for you on the same footing as four independent underwriters would take proportionate risks at Lloyd's in some ship at sea.

Its last proprietor, Sir Alexander Carstairs, sixth baronet, had been a good deal of a recluse, and I never remember seeing him but once, when I caught sight of him driving in the towna very, very old man who looked like what he really was, a hermit.

Changing the conversation, I soon found that the proprietor of the house was a Mr. Dakin, she, his sister, Mrs. White, and that she was a Methodist.

The chief proprietor at Bytown is the Hon.

As to routine control, urban proprietors were less complete masters even of slaves in their own employ than were those in the country.

The present proprietor of Maxwelton House is Sir Emilius Laurie, formerly rector of St. John's, Paddington, when he was known as Sir Emilius Bayley.