127 Verbs to Use for the Word tenant

"I rejoice," said Lady Moseley, "that Sir William has found a tenant, however; for next to occupying it himself, it is a most desirable thing to have a good tenant in it, on account of the circle in which we live.

"You'll lose the good tenants and you'll keep the bad ones, and the houses will all go to rack and ruin, and then you'll sell all the property at a loss.

" "Are you certain of that?" asked the tenant.

It is because if a landlord drives away his tenants, he may not get others; whereas the demand for money is so great, it may always be lent.'

But all the amenities of life were put aside when he entered Mr. Buxton's sanctumhis "office," as he called the room where he received his tenants and business people.

His father kept a good house for honest men his tenants, that brought him in part; and his son keeps a bad house with knaves that help to consume all.

The living-room assumed an air of comfort; my books now had a real corner of their own; the guest-chamberor, rather, the little spare-roomalready had entertained its transient tenants; and as our friends came and went the walls caught something from them all, to remind us of their presence.

She believed in the bottom of her heart that Stephen might have secured a tenant, if he had tried.

Landlords having influence were careful to protect good tenants.

A tyrant, an oppressor, a bad landlord, a man who lets miserable tenements at a rack-rent (to come down to particulars), and exposes his wretched tenants to all those abominations of which we have heard so muchwell!

A few degrees to the southward of the spot where it was now seen, it is probable that this relic of humanity would have retained its form and impression, until the trump sounded to summon it to meet its former tenant, the spirit, in judgment.

Lanfranc, we are told, turned the drengs, the rent-paying tenants of his archiepiscopal estates, into knights for the defence of the country; he enfeoffed a certain number of knights who performed the military service due from the archiepiscopal barony.

Unfortunately the last arrived brings out Lord Palmerston's tenants.

Tyrrel does his cousin to death and ruins his tenant, a man of integrity, by means of the law.

The great vassals retained a portion of their land as their demesnes, having tenants who paid rents and performed services not military.

We found he had been a good deal in England, studying farming, and was resolved to improve the value of his father's lands, without oppressing his tenants, or losing the ancient Highland fashions.

The feudal institutions, by raising the military tenants to a kind of sovereign dignity, by rendering personal strength and valour requisite, and by making every knight and baron his own protector and avenger, begat that martial pride and sense of honour, which, being cultivated and embellished by the poets and romance-writers of the age, ended in chivalry.

'In England there may be reason for raising the rents (in a certain degree) where the value of lands is increased by accession of commerce, ...but here (contrary to all policy) the great men begin at the wrong end, with squeezing the bag, before they have helped the poor tenant to fill it; by the introduction of manufactures.'

While I was thus soothing my mind with fond imaginations, it happened that a few bricklayers and their labourers came over from a distance of five or six miles, to work upon some additions to one of the better sort of houses in the town, which had changed its tenant.

There is an impressive sketch of the elderly prude: "wise, austere, and nice, Who showed her virtue by her scorn of vice"; and another of the selfish and worldly life of the Lady at the Great House who prefers to spend her fortune in London, and leaves her tenants to the tender mercies of her steward.

When he wants a better introduction he begins his addresses to the chambermaid, like one that sues the tenant to eject the landlord, and according as he thrives there makes his approaches to the mistress.

A litigious landlord may drag the outgoing tenant into an expensive lawsuit, which he has no power to prevent.

The royal court, containing the tenants-in-chief of the crown, both lay and clerical, and entering into all the functions of the witenagemot, was the supreme council of the nation, with the advice and consent of which the King legislated, taxed, and judged.

Landlord, he saw his tenant once or twice when he was hoeing his turnips and passed the time of day, and landlord's wife wore her new brooch to church every Sunday.

It is not the Fenians who have evicted tenants by the score.

127 Verbs to Use for the Word  tenant