单词 | rack rent |
例句 | A tenant's Protestantism did not save him from a rack rent; it often increased the rack rents. The New Irish Constitution 2011-02-06T03:00:57.247Z I won't ask a rack rent, I promise you, and I suppose I could distrain on these tea things and the kettle if it were not paid up. Bosom Friends A Seaside Story For the estate, which was all set at a rack rent, was strictly entailed; and as Jonas had always lived beyond his income, there would be little to leave to a younger son. The Macdermots of Ballycloran The farms are let at moderate, not rack rents, such as the tenants can easily pay. A Short History of English Agriculture So that if the war continues some years longer, a landed man will be little better than a farmer at a rack rent, to the army, and to the public funds. The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. — Volume 09 Contributions to The Tatler, The Examiner, The Spectator, and The Intelligencer Now, when every nerve was strained to pay this rack rent, and cattle were high in price, if the unfortunate tenant failed, why, he was evicted. The Letters of "Norah" on Her Tour Through Ireland Agriculture cannot be expected to flourish where the farms are small, the leases short, and the husbandman begins upon a rack rent, without a sufficient stock to answer the purposes of improvement. The Expedition of Humphry Clinker Their tenants complain of rack rents as bitterly as if they lived in the west. The Letters of "Norah" on Her Tour Through Ireland These people have been paying a rack rent for years to this nobleman, the Earl of Arran, yet when starvation overtook them, he had neither helping hand nor feeling heart for them. The Letters of "Norah" on Her Tour Through Ireland |
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