He who sits under the shade of his own vine and fig-tree (or even those which are leased or rented) will find the shade and the fruit of his vine and his tree greatly increased by judicious and seasonable pruning.

The Times continued under the management of Mr. Newson until the first of January, 1861, when he leased the office to W.R. Marshall and Thomas F. Slaughter, who started the St. Paul Daily Press with its material.

After the bank moved out of this building it was leased to Bechtner & Kottman, and was by them remodeled into a hotel on the European plan at an expense of about $20,000.

"I leased one-half of the first floor, an apartment of four rooms.

Three years later, with the money that his work now brought him, he leased the house Farringford, in the Isle of Wight, and settled in the first permanent home he had known since he left the rectory at Somersby.

The Mexican Government, for instance, has leased its oil-wells to English, American, and Dutch companies, and the Chinese Government has largely confided the construction and management of its railroads to English, French, and German companies.

In the Mississippi section invaded by the northern army, General Thomas opened what he called Infirmary Farms which he leased to Negroes on certain terms which they usually met successfully.

There were reported in the aggregate over 100,000 acres of cotton under cultivation, 7,000 acres of which were leased and cultivated by blacks.

My house was, when I leased it, little more than a peasant's hut.

It has lately been leased for seven years by the owner, for nine hundred dollars per year.

On the outbreak of the first world war Japan occupied the former German-leased territory of Tsingtao, at the extremity of the province of Shantung, and from that point she occupied the railways of the province.

Your railroad was to be sold out, lock, stock and barrel; or leased to the Overland for ninety-nine yearswhich amounts to the same thing.

He leased a farm at Ellisland, in 1788, and some friends procured his appointment as exciseman for his district.

We had a place we leased on the Hudson place that we stayed on.

We leased it for five years but we stayed there seven or maybe eleven years.

This land was leased in job lots to settlers, who, however, kept possession without paying when they found it lay in North Carolina.

After Henderson's main treaty was concluded, the Watauga Association entered into another, by which they secured from the Cherokees, for 2,000 pounds sterling, the lands they had already leased.

" That seemed to strike him as a very suspicious date, and he stared at me hard for a moment before he went on: "What for?" "Principally because I leased the house.

There, in 1762, my father was born; his mother, Louise-Cessette Dumas, died in 1772; and in 1780, when my father was eighteen, the West Indian estates were leased, and the marquis returned to his native country.

And State land can be leased for a term uh years.

But the war never came off: you remember that Mr. ROOSEVELT settled it by fighting a single combat with the Russian champion after he had been appointed President of China; so the Chinese leased the Hoang-Ho to the King of SIAM for four years at a million a year.

It leased for itself the hall of the Jacobins' convent: hence the name.

But serious charges were repeatedly made by the Transvaal sympathizers with reference to the use to which American ports and waters were put by British vessels or British-leased transports plying between the United States and South Africa.

Soon after war had begun it was known that the English authorities would scrutinize closely any transactions of British ships, or of ships leased by English firms, which had dealings in a commercial way with the warring Republics.

That is to say, the house is really leased to Lady Tyrrell, and he is in a measure her guestvery queer it must be for him in his own house.