7 examples of landholdings in sentences

The mountain-streams of New England, too, afford so much water-power as to bring in ugly factories to disfigure the beautiful ravines, and to introduce into the community a class of people very different from the landholding descendants of the Puritans.

See Ross, "Early History of Landholding among the Germans.

Presumably, therefore, Vergil's father belonged to a landholding family with some honors of municipal service to his credit.

But, whether Cavaliers or Roundheads or Jacobites, they came from the landholding class in England.

In 1643, as compared with some five thousand negroes of all sorts, there were about eighteen thousand white men capable of bearing arms; and in the little island's area of 166 square miles there were nearly ten thousand separate landholdings.

As further decades passed the similar shores of the parallel rivers to the northward, the York, then the Rappahannock and the Potomac, were occupied in a similar way, though with an increasing predominance of large landholdings.

Prosperity from tillage, and especially from dairying and horse-breeding, caused the rise in that neighborhood of landholdings and slaveholdings on a scale more commensurate with those in Virginia than with those elsewhere in New England.

7 examples of  landholdings  in sentences