| 单词 | tenant farmer |
| 例句 | Still, several generations of tenant farmers had grown corn and other grains there. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z “They were tenant farmers. Your papa didn’t want his children to have that life. That’s why he worked so hard at the restaurant. And now he has brought you back here, so...” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z After two hundred years without being permitted to own the land they had opened and worked, the tenant farmers rebelled. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z The Irish and the Italians were peasants, tenant farmers from the impoverished countryside of Europe. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z She was the wife of a tenant farmer; the farm, an especially windswept and lonesome one, was halfway between Garden City and Holcomb. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z She felt that she never wanted to leave her parents and grandparents, and she felt that she did not want to be a tenant farmer her whole life. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z So she would be a tenant farmer after all? A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z She did not want to be a tenant farmer one day. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z The youth was visiting his uncle, Mose Wright, a tenant farmer. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z And they ate better than they had in years, for no landlord would serve the King anything less than his finest offerings, even if that meant butchering a tenant farmer’s last suckling pig. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z In the old country, they had toiled as tenant farmers under the oppressive control of their English landlords. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z “Yankee women do work like that, and colored women, and tenant farmers’ wives and daughters. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z As the sharecropping system that dated back to the Middle Ages broke down, tenant farmers left to find work in the cities. Echoes of History at a Tuscan Estate 2014-05-09T19:05:28Z This thought-provoking fiction relates the story of three murders committed by a 17-year-old tenant farmer in the Scottish Highlands in 1869. 8 New Books We Recommend This Week 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z The family moved frequently, working as tenant farmers, before settling in Tigard, Ore., when she was 12. Katherine Dunn, Author of ‘Geek Love,’ Dies at 70 2016-05-14T04:00:00Z His father, a tenant farmer, died when Harry was not yet 2. Review: Harry Crews’s Sense of Menace in Writing and in Life 2016-05-11T04:00:00Z The descendant of tenant farmers, he had little formal schooling and never lived far from his hometown. Ronald Blythe, Scribe of the English Countryside, Dies at 100 2023-02-08T05:00:00Z Starting as a trickle, the migration rose to a torrent amid the Highland Clearances, in which tenant farmers in Scotland were evicted from their lands by property owners. Fiddling With the Past: The Secrets of Scottish Music 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z The novel’s most spirited advocate for Reform is not, in fact, candidate Brooke but one of his neglected tenant farmers, Mr. Dagley. How George Eliot’s “Middlemarch” Resonates in the England of 2019 2019-11-21T05:00:00Z We ascended the massive exterior stone steps to the second floor of the Palazzolo, one of 35 farmhouses that the Origos built in the 1920s and 1930s to house the families of their tenant farmers. Echoes of History at a Tuscan Estate 2014-05-09T19:05:28Z His father, a tenant farmer, died of a heart attack before Crews was 2. Harry Crews’s ‘A Childhood’ Vividly Evokes a Depression-Era America 2017-06-29T04:00:00Z By the start of the 20th century it was almost derelict, with a tenant farmer living in one wing and his chickens and livestock in another. The Mansion Is Closed Because of Covid. No One Told the Deer. 2021-03-17T04:00:00Z The only professional training ever received by Burns, a tenant farmer by birth, was as a land surveyor. Robert Burns honoured as surveyor 2012-11-20T13:15:29Z The Mellons were fairly well-off tenant farmers when they decided to emigrate in 1818, several decades before the Great Famine that decimated the countryside. Northern Ireland’s lake lands: Rain, history and the Mellons 2018-03-09T05:00:00Z The family later became tenant farmers about 40 miles north of Chicago. Dorothy Salisbury Davis, Suspense Novelist, Dies at 98 2014-08-07T04:00:00Z No one knows exactly when they were built, or when the generations of people who lived in them started calling themselves renters instead of tenant farmers or sharecroppers. Her Family Owned Slaves. How Can She Make Amends? 2021-07-04T04:00:00Z During his announcement Saturday, Perry touched on his roots as the son of tenant farmers who farmed dry land cotton and wheat on the West Texas plains. Texas Gov. Rick Perry joins 2012 GOP race 2011-08-13T17:52:00Z Agee and Evans scrutinized the lives of white tenant farmers; in “All God’s Dangers,” we witness a black tenant family through three generations. Critic’s Notebook: ‘All God’s Dangers,’ a Forgotten Autobiography 2014-04-18T21:44:48Z Crop failures, whether caused by weather or insect infestation, were the burden of the tenant farmer, not the planter. ‘Empire of Cotton,’ by Sven Beckert 2014-12-29T05:00:00Z Meanwhile, word comes of poverty and calamities ravaging townsfolk and tenant farmers, foretelling the anti-English Troubles to come. Solid U.S. premiere of Conor McPherson’s ‘The Veil’ from Quotidian Theatre The tale of the unpublished article began in 1936 when Fortune editors grew interested in tenant farmers and assigned the task to Agee, then a staff writer in his late 20s. James Agee’s Article as ‘Cotton Tenants: Three Families’ 2013-06-03T22:41:39Z The son of an illiterate tenant farmer, he has built a thriving transportation company. Mario Vargas Llosa’s delicious melodrama of sex, love and revenge 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z Born in Chicago on April 26, 1916, Mrs. Davis was adopted at age 1 by Alfred Salisbury, a tenant farmer, and his Irish immigrant wife, Margaret. Dorothy Salisbury Davis, mystery writer, dies at 98 A tenant farmer’s son — the oldest of 12 brothers — with the accent and manners to match, Drake was despised by courtly patricians for his passing acquaintance with protocol. How Sir Francis Drake and Queen Elizabeth I Made England a Global Power 2021-03-10T05:00:00Z His father, Ray, a tenant farmer, died before Harry was 2. Harry Crews, Writer of Dark Fiction, Is Dead at 76 2012-03-30T05:32:16Z Sharecroppers and tenant farmers working other people’s land depended on the harvest for their income. World History: from 1400 2022-12-14T00:00:00Z Maoist rebels, who claim inspiration from Chinese revolutionary leader Mao Zedong, have been fighting India’s government for more than four decades, demanding land and jobs for tenant farmers and poor people. Official says Maoist rebels kill 11 in central India attack 2023-04-26T04:00:00Z Up to an extra £1,000 a year will be available under ELMS' sustainable farming incentive to help smaller businesses, including tenant farmers, cover the administrative cost of taking part. Green farming schemes to be paid more taxpayers' money 2023-01-05T05:00:00Z Others were exploited as tenant farmers, with debt taking the place of chains. Were your kids’ glasses made with prison labor? 2022-12-11T05:00:00Z Mr. Lewis, a Louisiana tenant farmer’s son and the cousin of televangelist Jimmy Swaggart, performed with a riveting, maniacal quality. Jerry Lee Lewis, unbridled early rocker, dies at 87 2022-10-28T04:00:00Z By then, much of Ireland’s natural forest had been cut away and many poor tenant farmers, subsisting mainly on their own potato crops, did not have cash to buy other fuels. Protecting the Peatlands of Ireland as Fuel Costs Skyrocket 2022-10-04T04:00:00Z Large farms often cut production by laying off sharecroppers or evicting tenant farmers, making the program even worse for them than for small farm owners. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z Powell, who founded Middleburg, Va., made his fortune off tenant farmers and enslaved labor. Historical hunt country estate on the market for $27.5 million 2022-07-15T04:00:00Z And such solar installations provide an alternative source of revenue in the form of payments to landowners like Mr. Knowlton or a reduction in lease payments for tenant farmers. Can Dual-Use Solar Panels Provide Power and Share Space With Crops? 2022-06-28T04:00:00Z The renter, or tenant farmer, pays rent with a share of the crops he or she raises. myWorld: Building Our Country 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Second, large landowners forced small farmers to become tenant farmers or to give up farming and move to the cities. World History: Patterns of Interaction 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z As well, the AAA left tenant farmers and sharecroppers, many of whom were Black, with no support. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z Many of the old farms and houses remain but are now occupied by tenant farmers. Farmland: Rising prices 2022-01-26T05:00:00Z The daughter of a tenant farmer and a homemaker, Boss grew up in New Glarus, a Wisconsin village populated mostly by Swiss immigrants, including her father. What if There’s No Such Thing as Closure? 2021-12-15T05:00:00Z Landowners would charge high interest on money tenant farmers borrowed for seeds and tools. myWorld: Building Our Country 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z The government then sold the land to tenant farmers at reasonable prices. World History: Patterns of Interaction 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z And as county attorney, he signed welfare checks for tenant farmers who had lost their land and relied on government help — his grandfather among them. Robert J. Dole, longtime GOP leader who sought presidency 3 times, dies at 98 2021-12-05T05:00:00Z Others who stayed in Delaware took on jobs in the late 1700s working for colonists as seafarers on fishing boats, or as tenant farmers and hunters. Two American Indian tribes in Delaware get help in buying back their ancestral homelands 2021-11-28T05:00:00Z When my mother told me that my grandfather grew up as a tenant farmer, I could drive past cotton fields in Alabama and imagine what his life was like. Opinion | I Grew Up Poor. How Am I Supposed to Raise My Middle-Class Kids? 2021-11-24T05:00:00Z The hall featured a wooden cotton planter used by a South Carolina tenant farmer. Saving History With Sandbags: Climate Change Threatens the Smithsonian 2021-11-25T05:00:00Z She and my grandfather owned a small farm — they were not sharecroppers or tenant farmers. "Critical race theory" is a fairytale — but America's monsters are real 2021-11-10T05:00:00Z Rob Hayward, a tenant farmer and former Conservative councillor, has farmed on these fields for generations. London: Is it time to build on the green belt to meet housing demand? 2021-08-31T04:00:00Z A mob of White men — many of them tenant farmers — women and children surrounded the courthouse and jammed the corridors. In Texas, a struggle to memorialize a brutal lynching as resistance grows to teaching historical racism 2021-06-03T04:00:00Z The rest of Nagle’s lengthy probate court file is property minutiae: taxes, receipts, leases to tenant farmers, occasional land sales. The mystery — and reversal of fortune — of the man whose property became Cal Anderson Park 2021-04-04T04:00:00Z Its last full renovation was during the reign of William and Mary, and when his stepmother bought it from a tenant farmer, there was no central heating. In Dorset, Jasper Conran’s Garden Runs Wild 2021-03-16T04:00:00Z Predictably, her story became one of class struggle under Mao, said Ms. Luo, with Yang Asha fleeing a landlord sun for a moon depicted as a heroic laborer or tenant farmer. A Soaring Monument to Beauty in China Is Stirring Passions. Mostly Anger. 2020-11-26T05:00:00Z Instead, the fields were worked by enslaved people or tenant farmers who lived in more modest dwellings. Perspective | Two old stone houses vie for the title of oldest dwelling in the District 2020-11-14T05:00:00Z In the days leading up to the trial date, White tenant farmers, idled by rain, and other residents filled the grounds of the courthouse. In Texas, a struggle to memorialize a brutal lynching as resistance grows to teaching historical racism 2021-06-03T04:00:00Z "The 'black' in blackmail is thought to be a play on 'white money,' the term for the silver coins with which tenant farmers traditionally paid their legitimate rent." Behar, Goldberg say phrases like 'black sheep,' 'blackmail,' 'Great White Way' should change 2020-06-24T04:00:00Z Many in the village were tenant farmers who grew corn and cassava on others’ land for subsistence wages. ’The land belonged to our ancestors’: Trump’s business partner in Indonesia exhumed graves in West Java to build resort 2020-05-14T04:00:00Z In response, the lord's wheat fields were increasingly turned over to livestock, or rented out to tenant farmers, who would pay the lord a fixed rent, keeping the agricultural produce for themselves. The Black Death led to the demise of feudalism. Could this pandemic have similar repercussions? 2020-04-26T04:00:00Z The contents of the letter show Washington was looking to diversify his holdings as he looked to grow wheat as opposed to tobacco and move on from enslaved labor and use tenant farmers. George Washington letter to Scottish nobleman discovered 2020-02-25T05:00:00Z Poor white tenant farmers battle fierce odds to make a living on a Texas plot. Movies on TV this week: Sunday, Feb. 16, 2020: 'Mr. Smith Goes to Washington' and more 2020-02-14T05:00:00Z Moreover, there are larger, more systemic challenges that can arise with the questions of land or tree ownership: Why would a tenant farmer invest time and money in planting trees on land she doesn’t own? Farming Degrades Land; Farming Can Also Bring It Back 2019-12-12T05:00:00Z Finnish urban and rural workers and tenant farmers, fed up with their miserable working conditions, rose up in rebellion. Opinion | Finland Is a Capitalist Paradise 2019-12-07T05:00:00Z Alliance One signs contracts with land-owning farmers in Malawi, who then recruit tenant farmer families to work the fields. BAT faces landmark legal case over Malawi families' poverty wages 2019-10-31T04:00:00Z It brings to mind the tense and often violent clashes between the black and white tenant farmers in the Jim Crow era. Opinion | Understanding Trump’s Appeal in Rural America 2019-10-12T04:00:00Z Those rights date back to the Irish Land Acts of the early 1900s which saw the break-up of large private estates belonging to landlords as the land was sold back to tenant farmers. Who owns the Mourne Mountains? 2019-08-26T04:00:00Z And it said there was an "urgent need" for measures to be put in place to protect fragile communities, including tenant farmers, from the "irresponsible exercise of power". The changing face of Scotland's landowners 2019-05-20T04:00:00Z That case involved a speculator who bought a plot, in 1999, knowing that there was a claim against it, made by a tenant farmer whose family had been working the land since 1946 without title. Who Owns South Africa? 2019-05-06T04:00:00Z There is a tenant farmer and his family; the wardens of an independent bird observatory; and a ferryman, Colin Evans, who doesn’t live on the island, but is the son of the last island-born resident. Extreme weather, loud birds and fresh food by boat – could you live on a remote island? 2019-04-20T04:00:00Z By 1880 more than 90 percent of them were still in the South, and most still worked as farm laborers, tenant farmers or sharecroppers. What Southern dynasties’ post-Civil War resurgence tell us about how wealth is really handed down 2019-04-04T04:00:00Z “It is incredibly clear cut - there is no UK asparagus on your supermarket shelves without seasonal migrant workers,” Chinn, whose great grandfather started as a tenant farmer in 1925, told Reuters. Brexit crisis tipped for British asparagus as EU seasonal workers... 2019-03-17T04:00:00Z As Irish tenant farmers used their land to mainly grow grain to pay their rents, they became increasingly dependent on the potato as their main source of sustenance. Threat to food as biodiversity declines 2019-02-21T05:00:00Z It ultimately consumed the house where Clasby lived, as well as most of the structures on the property, which she leases as a tenant farmer. Devastated by Woolsey fire, a farmer and forager begins to rebuild 2018-12-23T05:00:00Z Like the old tenant farmers, they helped families such as the Irvines realize their dreams. In Orange County, land of reinvention, even its conservative politics is changing - Los Angeles Times 2018-11-05T05:00:00Z Her paternal grandfather had organized tenant farmers on the Sunshine Plantation, one of Mississippi’s first cooperative farms with black and white farmers; Dorothea Lange, she recently discovered, photographed her favorite uncle, Clarence, in the 1930s. How Carrie Mae Weems Rewrote the Rules of Image-Making 2018-10-15T04:00:00Z Wearing a cream-coloured suit, the soft-spoken son of Iowan tenant farmers hunched over the microphone in Washington to explain that humans had entered a confronting new era. Ex-Nasa scientist: 30 years on, world is failing 'miserably’ to address climate change 2018-06-19T04:00:00Z They had been tenant farmers and sharecroppers, according to a Pinellas County research paper that drew on oral histories to chronicle the founding of Dansville. Black neighborhood hopes progress is kind to its past 2018-06-15T04:00:00Z They both acknowledge their good fortune: Burrell is not a tenant farmer but inherited the estate from his grandparents. The magical wilderness farm: raising cows among the weeds at Knepp 2018-06-15T04:00:00Z When Hammerstein’s tenant farmer in Pennsylvania asked for a pair for his son’s wedding, the lyricist responded, “When’s the wedding?” Opinion | The ‘Hamilton’ of World War II 2018-03-31T04:00:00Z Many of the African-Americans settled in southern York County, working as tenant farmers or sharecroppers for the owners of the large farms in the area. African-American church has a history dating to 1850 2018-01-13T05:00:00Z That leaves poor tenant farmers mired in debt, with no means to invest. For Asia, the path to prosperity starts with land reform 2017-10-12T04:00:00Z James Agee’s 1941 book, “Let Us Now Praise Famous Men,” with photographs by Walker Evans, drew attention to tenant farmers. The high jinks and despair of the Southern man from 'Smokey and the Bandit' to the new 'Logan Lucky' 2017-08-11T04:00:00Z In 1963, a tenant farmer named James Payne told a justice department official that a white mob had showed up at his house a day later. What is a black professor in America allowed to say? 2017-08-03T04:00:00Z During the 1960s, it was the site of “tent cities” erected by black tenant farmers evicted from their land by white owners for attempting to vote. In the Tennessee Delta, a poor community loses its hospital — and sense of security 2017-04-10T04:00:00Z Many left behind their lives as tenant farmers, sharecroppers and farm hands for better opportunities in the North. Farm partners with Indianapolis center to feed neighborhood 2016-11-27T05:00:00Z By the war, half of Japan’s arable land was worked by tenant farmers, and rent was never less than half the crop. For Asia, the path to prosperity starts with land reform 2017-10-12T04:00:00Z The tenant farmers are now asking the courts to enforce those promises. Arran farm sale as John Paterson prepares for eviction - BBC News 2016-11-25T05:00:00Z Before the state job, he spent most of his life as a tenant farmer. Family finds peace despite 40-year-old unsolved murder 2016-10-15T04:00:00Z The son of poor tenant farmers in a small Texas town, he was the first in his family to attend college. Why Jim Calaway is giving away all of his money 2016-06-11T04:00:00Z A tenant farmer does the planting and harvesting. EXCHANGE: Anchor farmer still in the fields at 94 2016-06-11T04:00:00Z The decision ends years of debate between opponents of GMOs and the tenant farmers that grow them. Boulder County to phase out GMO crops on public land 2016-03-18T04:00:00Z Indian laws on land deals are fairly generous by developing-country standards, calling for compensation for tenant farmers and sharecroppers. A Chinese Company in India, Stumbling Over a Culture 2015-12-30T05:00:00Z He grew up in northern Alabama in a family of tenant farmers and coalminers. Moveable feasts 2015-12-01T05:00:00Z In the Southwest, his revivalistic zeal appealed deeply to tenant farmers and miners. The Democratic Socialist Who Ran for President Almost a Century Ago 2015-11-23T05:00:00Z As tractors replaced tenant farmers, the banks took over the land. Editorials from around New England 2015-10-31T04:00:00Z They moved from the Scottish borders to Ireland in the 17th century — Protestant tenant farmers eking out a living between their English landlords and the Irish Catholics. Why a key to the 2016 Southern vote lies centuries ago on another continent 2015-09-09T04:00:00Z In some instances, Red Cross supplies were disbursed to landlords, who sold them to tenant farmers. From Katrina to Ferguson 2015-08-24T04:00:00Z "They were all tenant farmers and they were not doing very well at the time," explains Mr Bell who is back in Islay from Canada on holiday. Land reform - The battle to decide who owns Scotland - BBC News 2015-06-22T04:00:00Z Her family made their living as coal burners, fishermen, basket weavers and tenant farmers. Moravian record books hold little-known history of slaves 2015-05-23T04:00:00Z They had nothing, she said, and often had to work as tenant farmers on the land where they had been enslaved. Harrowing exhibit about slavery in New Orleans 2015-04-18T04:00:00Z Another of a migrant worker with his tenant landlord says “tenant farmers received harsh treatment at the hands of planters.” Jacob Lawrence’s Great Migration series on view at MoMA 2015-04-10T04:00:00Z The family lived in Kingston, seven miles from Cambridge, and were tenant farmers who "rarely turn up in parish records", he said. Tudor sisters' plague graffiti found 2015-02-20T05:00:00Z They did not own the land but were tenant farmers, part of a feudal system which survives to this day. Land reform - The battle to decide who owns Scotland - BBC News 2015-06-22T04:00:00Z Some African Americans worked as servants and tenant farmers or launched their own businesses. NAACP wants neglected Las Cruces cemetery restored 2015-01-18T05:00:00Z My grandfather, Nealy Stovall, made his living for most of his life as a tenant farmer, and when he was in his mid-sixties, he suffered a massive stroke. An excerpt of Wendy Davis' 'Forgetting to Be Afraid' 2014-09-09T04:00:00Z To supplement the income he earned as a tenant farmer, James, who was in his 60s, dug and cleaned wells. Man wants ancestor’s heroic deed remembered 2014-07-28T04:00:00Z "Suddenly Burns was launched from obscurity as a tenant farmer in Ayrshire to the most famous poet in Scotland - and the rest is history." Robert Burns 'used mystery editor' 2014-07-01T04:00:00Z Lord Grantham lends a tenant farmer money to repay the delinquent rent his father ran up. Downtonomics: A fictional estate’s troubles echo in the modern world 2014-02-07T16:10:28Z And with that, no doubt half the viewers in the country turned to see what Lord Grantham will do about the tenant farmers. Jenkins: Super Bowl XLVIII: Peyton Manning fails to improve the only record that matters 2014-02-03T04:37:45Z The court was told he went on a skiing holiday after "struggling to cope" as a tenant farmer and was "too embarrassed" to ask for help. Cattle 'death camp' farmer jailed 2014-01-17T16:14:03Z The Masque was eventually published in 1832, the year the Reform Act which granted the vote to male small landowners, tenant farmers, and shopkeepers was passed. Shelley's Masque 'is slogan for modern times' 2013-07-13T00:49:16Z It is, she says, the small family farms and, in particular, the tenant farmers who are being hit hardest. Britain's farming crisis: 'People don't realise how tough everything is' 2013-03-16T20:00:00Z With Matthew gone, Tom and Mary want to reduce the number of tenant farmers and increase productivity. Downtonomics: A fictional estate’s troubles echo in the modern world 2014-02-07T16:10:28Z Almost overnight, the government restored an earlier era in which tenant farmers were indentured to a handful of aristocrats who controlled the country’s most fertile land. Egyptian Farmers Make Themselves Heard 2012-06-27T21:04:53Z Neither in law books nor in ordinary discourse could a tenant farmer be said to hire his land. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 5 "Hinduism" to "Home, Earls of" 2012-03-25T02:00:05.717Z He moved the Commons for a committee to inquire into the effects of protective duties upon tenant farmers and agricultural laborers. Sketches of Reforms and Reformers, of Great Britain and Ireland 2012-03-12T03:00:20.310Z Written in punchy bullet points, the Perry campaign speech describes him as “the son of tenant farmers” and “America’s most pro-life governor.” Republicans Wage Hidden Ground War in Iowa 2011-12-31T20:27:41Z And it was at Halton that Mr. Hoff, a large tenant farmer, lived of whom Dr. Tennyson heard many a story from the Rector. Tennyson and His Friends 2011-12-28T03:00:32.373Z His parents, Ray and Amelia Perry, were tenant farmers in Texas’s tough Haskell County, and Perry was raised in a small house without indoor plumbing during part of his childhood. Rick Perry is confident, but is he ready? 2011-12-12T00:39:00Z Once upon a time there was a poor tenant farmer who had a number of children whom he could feed but poorly, and had to clothe in the scantiest way. The Norwegian Fairy Book 2011-11-22T03:00:08.940Z Perry describes himself as “the son of tenant farmers.” What You Missed While Not Watching the GOP's Dartmouth Debate 2011-10-12T06:25:00Z Having every requisite, he might have gone on winning—but gave up; and is now the respected and prosperous tenant farmer of Brotherelkeld. Wrestling and Wrestlers: Biographical Sketches of Celebrated Athletes of the Northern Ring; to Which is Added Notes on Bull and Badger Baiting 2011-09-30T02:00:19.420Z These tenant farmers, whether in the Marsh, wold, or fen, were very considerable people in days when agriculture was at its best. Tennyson and His Friends 2011-12-28T03:00:32.373Z His son Ray, the governor’s father, became a tenant farmer, too, until he acquired some acreage of his own and combined it with leased property. Paint Creek, Tex., Remembers Rick Perry 2011-09-19T02:27:41Z The bulk of the returns are in rent payments from tenant farmers who grow the crops and from land appreciation. Ceres Partners reaps profits from farmland 2011-08-19T03:16:00Z Who would care, in a thousand years, what rent was paid by the tenant farmers of the Abbey, or who received a certain benefice from the King? In the Days of the Guild 2011-08-03T02:00:12.687Z Discharged soldiers were settled on the grants as tenant farmers. The Colonization of North America 1492-1783 2011-07-06T02:00:47.077Z He also taught me to regard the tenant farmer as superior to all other varieties of his class. All Men are Ghosts 2011-06-28T02:00:12.497Z Tidman's birth was humble,—his father had been a small tenant farmer of the Ainsleighs,—and he had started life without even the proverbial shilling. The Mandarin's Fan 2011-06-09T02:00:17.540Z We are not here concerned with the results of the case—Jefferies wrote on the side of the tenant farmer. The Eulogy of Richard Jefferies 2011-05-27T02:00:19.437Z Professor Rogers once said when speaking of the tenant farmers, that their heads were as soft as the mangolds they grew. Norfolk Annals A Chronological Record of Remarkable Events in the Nineteeth Century, Vol. 2 2011-05-25T02:00:19.650Z But the feudal landlord who owns much of the land in the area, his tenant farmers and the local police were all in disbelief. Secret Held if Bin Laden Lived Here, Village Says 2011-05-08T00:13:25Z The National Trust says it is the UK's biggest farmer with 200,000 hectares in production, mostly managed by tenant farmers, including lowland arable farms and Snowdonia sheep farming. Online farmers to run Trust site 2011-05-04T02:13:34Z But Ms Mai was born into a very poor clan - most members of her community work as tenant farmers. Standing tall 2011-04-21T17:26:15Z The son of a tenant farmer in northern Queensland, Rudd graduated with a first-class honors degree in Asian studies from Australian National University before becoming a diplomat in Stockholm and Beijing from 1981 to 1988. Australia Won’t ‘Manipulate’ Currency Now at Record, Rudd Says 2011-04-20T23:18:59Z Eighteen tenant farmers will participate in the trust's programme. Badger TB vaccinations on estate 2011-04-20T00:12:06Z The home of the average tenant farmer is a small, single-storied, thatch-roofed building, having usually two or three small rooms separated by sliding paper screens, and a kitchen with earthen floor. Working Women of Japan 2011-03-09T03:00:49.197Z The son of a ne'er-do-well tenant farmer, Mr. Demarest had had no formal schooling until he was fifteen. The Black Fawn 2011-03-07T03:00:09.513Z Almost all the confusion, trouble, and crime of last century was due to the vicious absurdity of the Irish land code and to the miserable condition of the Irish tenant farmers produced thereby. The New Irish Constitution 2011-02-06T03:00:57.247Z And just over the rise of a low hill they found it—a tenant farmer’s unpainted shack, from whose chimney rose a straight column of blue smoke. Girl Alone 2011-01-27T03:00:36.117Z When a Communist-led coalition of leftist parties took power in 1977, they began a sweeping campaign that redistributed land to small farmers and codified legal protections for tenant farmers. Communists In India Fight To Hold On To a Mission 2010-10-22T01:57:00Z Life for tenant farmers, like Rafi-ud-din, his father and five uncles, is particularly tough now. Pakistan farmers' livelihoods buried under flood mud 2010-10-01T05:29:00Z The famine began with a blight on the leaf of the potato, a staple of Irish tenant farmers, and accelerated through a system of absentee landlords and colonialism. About New York: Irish President?s Thanks for 19th-Century Aid 2010-05-22T02:24:00Z Since then a slow, but no less deep and far-reaching, change has passed over the tenant farmers of Ireland. The New Irish Constitution 2011-02-06T03:00:57.247Z The man, wearing handcuffs and a tattered jacket, claimed to be an innocent tenant farmer whose house the insurgents had commandeered to build roadside bombs. In Afghanistan, NATO Denounces an Ally 2010-03-06T02:07:00Z They and the small tenant farmers work ungrudgingly for their spiritual masters, to whom they owe a blind devotion. The Unveiling of Lhasa As our numbers grow, farms become relatively scarce, and a class of tenant farmers and an agricultural proletariat develop. American World Policies Let me tell you of just one tenant farmer, and, remember, there are hundreds of thousands like him. The Shadow Introductory The following chapter contains an account of the change which has been wrought by legislation in the position of the Irish tenant farmer and labourer during the last forty years. The New Irish Constitution 2011-02-06T03:00:57.247Z In the fourth century the attachment of the tenant farmers and peasant laborers to the soil was extended to the whole empire. A History of Rome to 565 A. D. Those were not soldiers, but the peons—how do you say it?—tenant farmers of Jaime Guevara. The Flaming Mountain The lights were borne by the families of the tenant farmers, who were coming to hear the midnight mass at the château. Devil Stories An Anthology Most people are familiar by this time with the demand of the tenant farmers for some exalted kind of compensation, which in effect is equivalent to tenant-right, i.e., to fixity of tenure. The Hills and the Vale We first heard about it from our tenant farmer when we arrived here from Spindrift. The Blue Ghost Mystery We had to walk betimes to Frostenden, where Farmer Downing lived, who was that rara avis a Liberal tenant farmer; but of course he did not vote tenant farmer, but as a freeholder. East Anglia Personal Recollections and Historical Associations Along with this change in farm values goes the increase or decrease in the number of tenant farmers and the shifting of the ownership of land to farm landlords. The Evolution of the Country Community A Study in Religious Sociology If you ever come to Provence, our tenant farmers often tell you, of M. Seguin's kid goat, who fought the big bad wolf all night before he ate her in the morning. Letters from my Windmill In most parishes there are one or more large tenant farmers who naturally take the lead in their own class, and they would speedily obtain adherents to the movement. The Hills and the Vale The boys pushed past the tenant farmer and ran through the screen door on the porch. The Blue Ghost Mystery The tenant farmers of a great estate paid their rent in shares of the produce. The Social Principles of Jesus That is, they will act as tenant farmers, as retired farmers or as absentee landlords. The Evolution of the Country Community A Study in Religious Sociology It's a typical house of a Provencal tenant farmer with its red tiles, large brown façade, and haphazardly placed doors and windows. Letters from my Windmill They consisted in the main of men and women in the humbler walks of life—artisans, tenant farmers, with some middle-class gentry. The Fathers of New England A Chronicle of the Puritan Commonwealths There's one bit of information your tenant farmer, Mr. Belsely, can get for us that none of the rest of us can get. The Blue Ghost Mystery The tenant farmer has cried himself up, and the Nationalists have cried him up as the finest, most industrious, most self-sacrificing fellow in the world. Ireland as It Is And as It Would be Under Home Rule The energies of the church should be devoted to the tenant farmer. The Evolution of the Country Community A Study in Religious Sociology The tenant farmers are there in their red serge jackets. Letters from my Windmill A half-dozen families live there, all of them small tenant farmers, save the ferryman—a strapping, good-natured fellow, who appears to be the nabob of the community. Afloat on the Ohio An Historical Pilgrimage of a Thousand Miles in a Skiff, from Redstone to Cairo Rick reached the door first and threw it open, almost upsetting Belsely, the tenant farmer. The Blue Ghost Mystery This fits into the point raised by a tenant farmer living just outside the town, an extraordinary character said to rise at seven o'clock in the morning. Ireland as It Is And as It Would be Under Home Rule In the country the marginal man is the tenant farmer; or a working farmer, though he be the owner. The Evolution of the Country Community A Study in Religious Sociology The larger producers, instead of getting their credit from the local stores, as their tenant farmers do, are financed either by their banks, or by their buyers, who in turn are financed by their bankers. The Fabric of Civilization A Short Survey of the Cotton Industry in the United States His lineage was humble and his origin obscure, his ancestors having been tenant farmers and small tradesmen in the same locality, without wealth, education, estate, or public station. Great Men and Famous Women, Vol. 7 A Series of Pen and Pencil Sketches of the Lives of More Than 200 of the Most Prominent Personages in History Dr. Miller told them that he had phoned the tenant farmer and arranged for the man to do a little inquiring in the town. The Blue Ghost Mystery First and foremost in numbers and importance were the sons of small farmers and tenant farmers, and younger sons of the laboring classes and small merchants. Religious Life of Virginia in the Seventeenth Century The Faith of Our Fathers The signs of this exploitation are the retirement of farmers from the land, the incoming of new owners in some numbers and of tenant farmers in a large degree, into the country community. The Evolution of the Country Community A Study in Religious Sociology This would leave the remainder of the settlers as indentured servants or tenant farmers who worked out their maintenance or transportation either for the company or for private individuals who financed their trip to America. Mother Earth Land Grants in Virginia 1607-1699 Peasant proprietorship is more common also; there are fewer tenant farmers. Introduction to the Science of Sociology The calm, factual way in which the tenant farmer piled mystery on mystery was incredible. The Blue Ghost Mystery And do you think," asked the Squire, "that I would allow my only daughter to marry a tenant farmer, a wild young scamp that his father disinherited? The Birthright The State of Illinois, which has a tenant farmer population of more than 50 per cent in its richest sections, has suffered severely through the loss of many country churches. The Evolution of the Country Community A Study in Religious Sociology A very large proportion of tenant farmers thus became county voters, and for the most part followed the politics of their landlords. The Political History of England - Vol XI From Addington's Administration to the close of William IV.'s Reign (1801-1837) Jack asked who Mr. Hildreth was and Sarah answered that he was the tenant farmer. Rainbow Hill The tenant farmer paused, then asked a question of his own. The Blue Ghost Mystery The fact was, every one was afraid to offend Richard Tresidder, and as every tenant farmer in the parish was in his power, perhaps their conduct was reasonable. The Birthright When he sought the tenant farmer, he secured with him the land-holder, and when he went after the hired man on the farm, he secured the farmer who employed him. The Evolution of the Country Community A Study in Religious Sociology No, she’s the tenant farmer’s daughter—the man who does the farming for your Grandpa, you know. Sunny Boy in the Country Mrs. Hildreth, the wife of the tenant farmer, was a young woman with wide-awake blue eyes and an air of capability that struck terror to the souls of the lazy. Rainbow Hill This was what the tenant farmer had seen! The Blue Ghost Mystery In a large proportion of cases, as shown by studies in typical areas, the landowner does not live on a neighboring farm, nor is he a retired parent or other relative of the tenant farmer. Church Cooperation in Community Life This abandonment of country churches has come in the same period in which the proportion of tenant farmers has greatly increased. The Evolution of the Country Community A Study in Religious Sociology She spoke with a strong Scotch accent, and was evidently what she seemed, either a servant at a farmhouse or, perhaps, the daughter of some small tenant farmer who lived in the district. The Day of Judgment All the tenant farmers, their wives, and their children, together with the cottagers and labourers on the estate, were invited. Roger Trewinion The boys watched as the tenant farmer walked up the road to his own house, as solid and dependable as the very earth he walked on. The Blue Ghost Mystery "We'd rather risk the hazards of a raw country," said the tenant farmer, "than be tenants always." Land of the Burnt Thigh The tenant farmer is crudely striving through problems of scientific agriculture. The Evolution of the Country Community A Study in Religious Sociology Daniel O'Connell was in favor of the ballot, because he saw that without its protection the Irish tenant farmer would have to vote for his landlord's candidate or would be turned out of his farm. A History of the Four Georges and of William IV, Volume IV Tenancy was occasionally practiced in the Fair Play territory, although it appears that the tenant farmer suffered no feelings of inferiority, if the following case is any example: ... The Fair Play Settlers of the West Branch Valley, 1769-1784 A Study of Frontier Ethnography His father was an agricultural labourer; and, with an ordinary education at school, he was, at an early age, engaged as an assistant shepherd to a tenant farmer in his native district. The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume VI The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century Land of their own for tenant farmers, land for the homeless. Land of the Burnt Thigh The financial system of the church should be placed at this time on a basis of weekly contribution, for with the tenant farmer comes system, cash payments, regular commercial processes. The Evolution of the Country Community A Study in Religious Sociology A book of arithmetical tables and calculations from his pen, entitled, "The Corn-dealer's Assistant," was long recognised as an almost indispensable guide for tenant farmers. The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume V. The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century The classes connected with the land came to be quite clearly distinguished into three groups: the landlords, the tenant farmers, and the farm laborers. An Introduction to the Industrial and Social History of England As for the lower classes,—the labourers, tenant farmers, and shopkeepers,—they were able as a rule to influence government only by rioting and uproar. The Wars Between England and America George Hope, born in 1811, was the son of a tenant farmer of the county of East Lothian, now represented in Parliament by Mr. Gladstone. Captains of Industry or, Men of Business Who Did Something Besides Making Money The tenant farmer expects to be an owner. The Evolution of the Country Community A Study in Religious Sociology Only in very exceptional cases has a tenant farmer been elected. The Rise of the Democracy Thus the tenant farmers are grazing their cattle for nothing, and, what is more, no man dare meddle with them. Disturbed Ireland Being the Letters Written During the Winter of 1880-81. Population is gathering in cities, and the country becoming the home of tenant farmers or day laborers on large estates. The Arena Volume 4, No. 19, June, 1891 But the tenant farmer on the other side of the bayou is to supply us with fresh fruit and vegetables. Ralestone Luck In the Kentucky counties which raise Burley tobacco, a few years ago the tenant farmer was an economic slave. The Evolution of the Country Community A Study in Religious Sociology It is also true that the curse of such a system falls the heaviest on the smallest and most ignorant tenant farmer, who is the least capable of self-defense. Twentieth Century Negro Literature Or, A Cyclopedia of Thought on the Vital Topics Relating to the American Negro The owner of it got little or no rental from the tenant farmer who carried on his noisome business but he was well aware of its nuisance value to his new neighbor. If You're Going to Live in the Country The most timid of her tenant farmers would have adopted a bold front with her. Nobody's Man The tenant farmers were nearly as numerous, King estimating them at 150,000 families; economically they were about on a level with the yeoman, their social standing, however, was considerably inferior. A Short History of English Agriculture But the combination of farmers has redeemed the poorer, the tenant farmer and the small farmer from economic slavery. The Evolution of the Country Community A Study in Religious Sociology Failure is inevitably and indelibly stamped in the foreheads of any class of average tenant farmers, regardless of race or color. Twentieth Century Negro Literature Or, A Cyclopedia of Thought on the Vital Topics Relating to the American Negro On the agent's desk there happened to be a letter from a friend who wanted a tenant farmer. Broken Homes A Study of Family Desertion and its Social Treatment The Japanese Constitutional Labour Party has insisted in a communication to the International Labour Conference at Geneva that Japanese tenant farmers are not properly called farmers but that they are "labourers pure and simple." The Foundations of Japan Notes Made During Journeys Of 6,000 Miles In The Rural Districts As A Basis For A Sounder Knowledge Of The Japanese People It will thus be seen that the tenant farmers, labourers, and cottagers, the bulk of those who worked on the land, were very badly off; the tenant farmer saved considerably less than the artisan. A Short History of English Agriculture The superficial fact of most consequence was the presence of tenant farmers in the community. The Evolution of the Country Community A Study in Religious Sociology No tenant farmer can vote against his landlord in obedience to his conscience without the risk of ruining his family. The Land-War In Ireland (1870) A History For The Times It has for some time been one of the declared purposes of the Farmers' Alliance to secure a system of judicial rents for the tenant farmers of England. Lippincott's Magazine, August, 1885 The reader of these pages will constantly come on references to the poverty of the tenant farmers. The Foundations of Japan Notes Made During Journeys Of 6,000 Miles In The Rural Districts As A Basis For A Sounder Knowledge Of The Japanese People They were often ably assisted by tenant farmers, many of whom were now men with considerable capital, for whom the smaller farms were amalgamated into large ones. A Short History of English Agriculture As a result, we have working men's churches and "rich men's clubs," "college churches," "student pastors," churches which minister to old families, and new chapels built by tenant farmers. The Evolution of the Country Community A Study in Religious Sociology The fields were well tilled, for the possessions for miles around the abbey were let to tenant farmers by the monks, who had first reclaimed them from the wilderness. Edwy the Fair or the First Chronicle of Aescendune There has also been a very marked tendency to enlarge the rights and the authority of the tenant farmer. Lippincott's Magazine, August, 1885 At the end of 1920 there were as many as ninety associations of tenant farmers, and sixty of these had been started for the specific purpose of representing tenants' interests against landowners. The Foundations of Japan Notes Made During Journeys Of 6,000 Miles In The Rural Districts As A Basis For A Sounder Knowledge Of The Japanese People At these gatherings all were equal, the suggestion of the smallest tenant farmer was listened to with respect, and the same courtesy and hospitality were shown to all whether prince or farmer. A Short History of English Agriculture The town loafers, the cotton mill operatives, the small farmers, particularly the tenant farmers, are those who most frequently clash with both the impertinent and the self-respecting negro. The New South A Chronicle of Social and Industrial Evolution The yeoman or tenant farmer had sheep enough for the wool trade besides some butter, cheese, and meat for the nearest growing town. Elizabethan Sea Dogs Generally this proletarian mass, including chattel slaves, serfs, tenant farmers and war captives, were outside the pale of respectability. Civilization and Beyond Learning from History A farmer who knew his fellow-villagers' position pretty closely said he thought that the position of tenant farmers was "rather well." The Foundations of Japan Notes Made During Journeys Of 6,000 Miles In The Rural Districts As A Basis For A Sounder Knowledge Of The Japanese People Yet eventually he had his reward; his estate came to command the pick of English tenant farmers, who never left it except through old age, and would never live under any other landlord. A Short History of English Agriculture It must also be remembered that the negro tenant farmer is migratory in his habits and that he often moved in the middle of the short term. The New South A Chronicle of Social and Industrial Evolution Any tenant farmer in England can have his land drained by the Government by paying six per cent. annually on the cost of the job. A Walk from London to John O'Groat's The vast majority consisted of slaves, serfs, war captives, and tenant farmers. Civilization and Beyond Learning from History The estrangement that has been promoted between the labourer and the tenant farmer effectually shuts the latter out. Hodge and His Masters Mrs. Levi Stewart, the wife of a tenant farmer, is on the witness stand. The Trade Union Woman The country merchant had already assumed the office of banker to the tenant farmer, and this position he still holds in spite of all efforts to dislodge him. The New South A Chronicle of Social and Industrial Evolution I was told that the annual dinner given to his tenant farmers came off the previous day at the inn where I lodged. A Walk from London to John O'Groat's Edwards had been a tenant farmer where his father, grandfather, and great-grandfather had lived before him. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 06 — Fiction The policy is simply perfect freedom, with support and substantial assistance to any and to every movement set on foot by the respectable men of Fleeceborough, or by the tenant farmers round about. Hodge and His Masters In America there are, properly speaking, no tenant farmers; every man owns the ground he tills. Democracy in America — Volume 2 The South is still sparsely settled, and the life of the tenant farmer or the small landowner and his family is often lonely. The New South A Chronicle of Social and Industrial Evolution They hunt with horses and dogs over the grounds of their tenant farmers, and the latter often act as game-beaters for them at their “shootings.” A Walk from London to John O'Groat's Similarly, tenant farmers paid rent for their land and were extended loans by the store keeper for their provisions. The Black Experience in America Most of these men are tenant farmers, and reference is sure to be made to the price of cheese, and the forthcoming local agricultural show. Hodge and His Masters The tenant farmers of yore, though they did not own their land, took care of it as they did their own children, maintaining and building its fertility by applying great amounts of composted organic matter. Down with the Cities Stowbody and Dawson foreclose every mortgage they can, and put in tenant farmers. Main Street In addition to the large plantations, cultivated by several tenant farmers, the number of small farms tilled by independent owners or renters increased. The United States Since the Civil War There was a murmur of voices—Madden's and a deeper note—at the low, dark side door, and a ginger-headed, canvas-gaitered giant of the unmistakable tenant farmer type stumbled or was pushed in. Traffics and Discoveries Mr. —— is not a tenant farmer from necessity; personally he is not a farmer at all, and knows no more of shorthorns than the veriest 'City' man. Hodge and His Masters Thus we find land let or owned in holdings from two and a half to a thousand hectares, some of the tenant farmers hereabouts paying a rental of several hundred pounds a year. The Roof of France Especially all these tenant farmers that pretend they have so much trouble getting seed and machinery. Main Street I visited a tenant farmer on the other side of the frontier, whose only son had lately died in hospital at Berlin. East of Paris Sketches in the Gâtinais, Bourbonnais, and Champagne In 1839, a general combination was formed among the tenant farmers in New York holding long or perpetual leases from manorial proprietors to resist the payment of the stipulated rents. The American Judiciary The room is crowded with tenant farmers, the entire hunting field is present. Hodge and His Masters He was a tenant farmer precisely as the name is understood here, with this difference—he owned a little land as well. The Roof of France There were in 1910 more than 2,353,000 tenant farmers, two-thirds of whom lived and worked under the terrible conditions which the Industrial Relations Commission's report showed to prevail in the South and Southwest. Woman and the New Race In that full radiance, on the path below the balustrade of the terrace, were my nine tenant farmers. Andivius Hedulio Adventures of a Roman Nobleman in the Days of the Empire He has a great estate in Silesia, farmed, as I explained, not by tenant farmers, but by his own superintendents. My Four Years in Germany It is the carriage of a tenant farmer—but what a tenant! Hodge and His Masters Still, Hayes could punish the tenant farmers and Kit knew they ran some risk. The Buccaneer Farmer Published in England under the Title "Askew's Victory" Many of these orchard and vegetable lands he had tenant farmers work on shares. The Desert of Wheat The slaves on the farms are all owned by my tenants and there are eight farms besides the villa- farm; counting Chryseros, there are nine tenant farmers. Andivius Hedulio Adventures of a Roman Nobleman in the Days of the Empire "On Deep Creek the tenant farmers are the biggest difficulty, your dad told me last Sunday," said J.W. John Wesley, Jr. The Story of an Experiment But the tenant farmer's wife who made the butter and cheese, and even helped to salt bacon, where is she now? Hodge and His Masters What we now understand by tenant farmers were a class that had not yet come into existence. The Coming of the Friars When bad years come, and render the tenant farmers unable to purchase guano, the crops are worthless almost. The Letters of "Norah" on Her Tour Through Ireland Very often the southern Negro is a tenant farmer, carelessly tilling a small plot of land and mortgaging his crop in order to secure the bare necessities of life. Problems in American Democracy I find tenant farmers around here are beginning to take longer leases; one or two are about like dad's been with your father—more partners than anything else. John Wesley, Jr. The Story of an Experiment Nor, indeed, do they look for tenant farmers, but hope for something higher in the scale. Hodge and His Masters This statement indicates that tenant farmers do not realize enough from the crops to quite cover expenses and the price named for their labor. Farmers of Forty Centuries; Or, Permanent Agriculture in China, Korea, and Japan We called at the house of a tenant farmer who had been evicted for non- payment of rent, and was back as a weekly tenant. The Letters of "Norah" on Her Tour Through Ireland State Assessor Wood, of New York, declared, in 1889, that, in his opinion, 'in a few decades there will be none but tenant farmers in this State.' Caesar's Column Does experience in your locality support the statement that tenant farmers are less likely than others to interest themselves in community progress? Community Civics and Rural Life If they marry a tenant farmer of their own class, with but small capital, they are too often a burden financially. Hodge and His Masters But many thousands of tenant farmers, indeed most of them, with some financial assistance and with some advice and training, can be made self-supporting on land which can eventually belong to them. State of the Union Address The county voters were mostly tenant farmers, who generally voted with their landlords. Mr. Hogarth's Will Her father united with six other tenant farmers in buying the third edition of "The Encyclopedia Britannica," seven for the price of six. An Autobiography "In the first place, there is our friend Colonel Bosky, the members for the county of Calfshire, and a deputation of tenant farmers." Sybil, or the Two Nations The churchwardens began to work with him; then a few of the larger tenant farmers. Hodge and His Masters But the new extension of the franchise- -to the borough householder, the borough 10 pounds lodger, and especially the 12 pounds tenant farmer—gave new classes political power. Short History of Wales In after years his reign became a golden age; but he counted a few disciples in his life-time, a few young labourers and tenant farmers, who swore tempestuously that he was not really a fool. The Longest Journey The House consisted of peers and sons of peers, military and naval officers, bankers, brewers, and landownership was represented enormously, but there were only two tenant farmers in the House. An Autobiography Nearly all the agriculturists, manufacturers and tradesmen of the day, little and big, are public enemies—farmers, tenant farmers, market-gardeners, cultivators of every degree, as well as foremen, shopkeepers, especially wine-dealers, bakers and butchers. The French Revolution - Volume 3 The tenant farmers are few and far between that could support their expenditure upon dress, the servants they would require, and last, but not least, the waste which always accompanies ignorance in household management. Hodge and His Masters He smiled when the young man, eager to bring theory into practice, fraternized with the tenant farmers, and visited families from whom his father shrunk in aristocratic dread. Dora Thorne There was Priscilla, still wearing her queenly toque, still encouraging the villagers—this time by dancing with one of the tenant farmers. Crome Yellow The Brodies had been tenant farmers in East Lothian for six or seven generations, though they originally came from the north. An Autobiography I did not see why I should pay to provide a rich company with tenant farmers, and I told Jansenius so. An Unsocial Socialist |
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