| 单词 | rent-roll |
| 例句 | The whole of the valley was still Basset land, but undrained in the bottom and light on the slopes, it made no figure in a rent-roll. The Great House 2012-03-30T02:00:14.973Z He told him how much each farmer paid in rent, how much the house property was worth, what amount was spent each year in repairs, and finally the net amount of his rent-roll. The Everlasting Arms 2012-03-22T02:00:37.327Z For he saw now that there were other things to be garnered--Garth, its broad acres, its fine rent-roll, the old man's savings, Josina. Ovington's Bank 2012-02-28T03:00:25.267Z "A very handsome rent-roll, sir," he replied; "so handsome that a plain man finds it difficult to understand how the heir could sacrifice it for any cause." Lawrence Clavering 2012-02-01T03:00:11.667Z There's about eight thousand acres, and a rent-roll in good times of perhaps a couple of thousand a year. The Eldest Son 2012-01-24T03:00:28.780Z She was mistress of a château in Southern France, in addition to an unencumbered rent-roll of £7000 a year. Curiosities of Impecuniosity 2011-12-31T03:00:16.190Z Pasley Carew's redeeming characteristics were a large estate and rent-roll, sporting instincts, and extreme openhandedness in everything that ministered to his own pleasures. Maid of the Mist 2011-11-21T03:00:11.937Z "To accept him only for the coronet and the rent-roll, his position and his Helmsley, seems not a very grateful and flattering return for his preference?" Cecil Castlemaine's Gage, Lady Marabout's Troubles, and Other Stories 2011-08-25T02:00:30.323Z It was whispered abroad that, under careful nursing, certain incumbrances had been paid off, and that the rent-roll was now something extremely heavy even for England, the land of long rent-rolls. World's End A Story in Three Books 2011-08-16T02:00:47.740Z He found his master in possession of a considerable rent-roll in various parts of the country, the manors being situate in the counties of Worcester, Gloucester, Oxford, Surrey, Buckingham, and Middlesex. William de Colchester Abbot of Westminster 2011-08-05T02:00:50.197Z The amount of the real property may be ascertained by the rent-roll; that of the personal, by means of papers left by the deceased, and a valuation of the effects made by competent persons. The Vicar of Wrexhill 2011-07-13T02:00:20.177Z Since the birth of the first Mervyn, 'the wicked squire,' the eldest son had inherited the same peculiar regard as regularly as to him had come the estate and most enviable rent-roll. Nevermore 2011-07-08T02:00:23.973Z Why, indeed, should they be, seeing that he was now the assured heir to the broad acres and splendid rent-roll of Cranston? Dorrien of Cranston 2011-07-07T02:00:31.540Z He had a handsome rent-roll, quite sufficient for his legitimate wants; and if things improved, he might be able to raise rents all round. The Squire's Daughter 2011-06-13T02:00:25.710Z His rent-roll is less than Abbot Litlington's, and there are heavier arrears. William de Colchester Abbot of Westminster 2011-08-05T02:00:50.197Z Both Shelley and Godwin put the rent-roll of lands in the same class as the pension-list which is supposed to be employed in the purchase of ministerial majorities. The Radicalism of Shelley and Its Sources 2011-03-08T03:00:45.010Z And I glanced at the total of his rent-roll; it is close on forty thousand pounds a year, and likely to increase as his mining property is opened up. A Song of a Single Note A Love Story 2011-02-24T03:01:01.930Z He is rich, courted, as are all young men with a respectable rent-roll, and might have made many a titled débutante Mrs. Chesney had he so chosen. Airy Fairy Lilian 2011-02-11T03:00:31.760Z Here is a man connected with some of the highest of England's aristocracy, and in addition to personal advantages he possesses a noble estate and a rent-roll of 12,000l. a year. Englefield Grange or Mary Armstrong's Troubles 2011-01-01T03:00:27.980Z A long and brilliant rent-roll makes up for a short and obscure pedigree. Speeches, Addresses, and Occasional Sermons, Volume 3 (of 3) 2010-12-20T17:11:42.357Z He still farther reduced the rent-roll by sales and bonds; and, at his death, your two uncles, who remained at home, changed their party. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 10 Such were the muttered comments on the new object of Dublin curiosity, who himself was very far from suspecting that his personal distinction had less share in his popularity than his rent-roll and his parchments. Roland Cashel Volume I (of II) Kellett's Court was one of those great mansions which the Irish gentlemen of a past age were so given to building, totally forgetting how great the disproportion was between their house and their rent-roll. Davenport Dunn, Volume 1 (of 2) A Man Of Our Day Many of the arrears were concessions made by the landlord in seasons of hardship and distress, but were unrecorded as such in the rent-roll or the tenant's receipt. St. Patrick's Eve The first year gave them a new rent-roll of £40, the second year saw this sum doubled. A History of Giggleswick School From its Foundation, 1499 to 1912 His rent-roll was over �1600, a large sum in these days, and it was yearly rising. James Boswell Famous Scots Series This total absence of coercion is no marvel, however, for in the forest there are no fortune-hunters, dowries being unknown, and there are no Dianas to join in the chase after a rent-roll. My Friends the Savages Notes and Observations of a Perak settler (Malay Peninsula) The Earl of Fitzkillingham, with a rent-roll of fifty thousand a year, has no need to do; he has only to be. The Beth Book Being a Study of the Life of Elizabeth Caldwell Maclure, a Woman of Genius His wife's nephew was an Earl with an enormous rent-roll, something so large that Humblethwaite and Scarrowby to him would be little more than additional labour. Sir Harry Hotspur of Humblethwaite "I know those who would not see him with his foot in a new-made grave for the best rent-roll in Christendom!" Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 2 I have," said Hay, proceeding calmly down the somewhat steep stairs; "a man-on-the-market means one who wants to marry and is eligible for any heiress who comes along with a sufficient rent-roll. The Opal Serpent Men like the Wentworths in the north, or the Hampdens in the south, boasted as long a rent-roll and wielded as great an influence as many of the older nobles. History of the English People, Volume V Puritan England, 1603-1660 Uncle James Patten doled out a five-pound-note to Beth by way of a wedding present from the long rent-roll her mother should have inherited. The Beth Book Being a Study of the Life of Elizabeth Caldwell Maclure, a Woman of Genius But, after all, what mattered this to General Stanley, who had a fine rent-roll elsewhere? Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXVI. October, 1843. Vol. LIV. At Turton Tower, a few miles distant, dwelt a cavalier of high birth, whose pedigree was somewhat longer than his rent-roll. Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 2 And then, as he thought of his balance at the bank, his large rent-roll, and his many profitable investments, his face grew very grave. The Golden Shoemaker or 'Cobbler' Horn You and your Order think no man should ever presume to touch politics unless his coat be velvet and his rent-roll large, like yours. Wisdom, Wit, and Pathos of Ouida Selected from the Works of Ouida “There was a time once, my dear, that I might have married a gentleman of title, with a rent-roll of six thousand a year.” The Maidens' Lodge None of Self and All of Thee, (In the Reign of Queen Anne) The rent-roll of his Grace was great: but that of his Lordship was incalculable. The Young Duke He, with his clerks, collects rents, and makes returns of a rent-roll, whose very recital would be wearisome. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No. 2, August, 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy The town owes its importance entirely to being the headquarters of the maharaja of Burdwan, the premier nobleman of lower Bengal, whose rent-roll is upwards of �300,000. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" It is said that the rent-roll of the Yorkshire estates of the late Sir Temple Devereux is not less than 15,000L. per annum. Henrietta Temple A Love Story The viscount was forty, but unmarried, with a long rent-roll, and longer pedigree; and who knew what effect sparkling hazel eyes and gold-bronzed hair, and honeyed smiles, might have upon him? Kate Danton, or, Captain Danton's Daughters A Novel In his cap was observed an hereditary sapphire, which blazed like a volcano, and which was rumoured to be worth his rent-roll. The Young Duke At Lucia's match I from my soul rejoice; The world congratulates so wise a choice; His lordship's rent-roll is exceeding great— But mortgages will sap the best estate. The Poetical Works of Edward Young, Volume 2 Lady Catherine came regularly at the terms from London, where she lived constantly; but her stay was no longer than the rent-roll required, and her maid said she rested but badly at night. Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 436 Volume 17, New Series, May 8, 1852 And I should think it extremely severe in any law, to force me to maintain a household of fifty servants, and fix their wages, before I had offered my rent-roll upon oath to the legislators. The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. - Volume 07 Historical and Political Tracts-Irish Without turning his hand, his rent-roll is five thousand pounds a year. Ben Blair The Story of a Plainsman A German prince or duke, since the absorption of the smaller principalities of Germany by Prussia, may have nothing left him but a barren title and a meagre rent-roll. Our Deportment Or the Manners, Conduct and Dress of the Most Refined Society It consisted of thirty-five villages, paid a revenue of six thousand rupees a-year, and yielded a rent-roll of eighteen thousand and five hundred. A Journey through the Kingdom of Oude, Volumes I & II The school-boy who has more pocket-money, the lodger who has the only bed-sitting-room in the house, and the man who has the largest rent-roll, are always socially above those in their immediate surroundings. Sally Bishop A Romance Thus, from being a rejected waif, the boy became the acknowledged heir to a peerage, and a long rent-roll. Celebrated Claimants from Perkin Warbeck to Arthur Orton But unhappily she set her affection upon Sir Adrian Dynecourt, with his grand old castle and his princely rent-roll—a "crumb" the magnitude and worth of which she was not slow to appreciate. The Haunted Chamber A Novel He was now proprietor of an additional estate, the rent-roll of which was six thousand per annum, and also master of eighty-five thousand pounds in the funds. The Poor Scholar Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three His rent-roll is about four hundred thousand rupees a-year, and he pays Government about one hundred and fifty thousand. A Journey through the Kingdom of Oude, Volumes I & II Have they ever furnished a rent-roll of the immovable estate, or given in an inventory of the movable effects, which they confiscate to their assignats? The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 03 (of 12) You could farm the tithe, or the King's taxes; you could farm a landlord's rent-roll, a corporation's market-dues, the profits of a bridge or of a highway. In a Green Shade A Country Commentary She was an earl's daughter, this stately Lady Louise, but so very impoverished an earl that the young Devonshire baronet, with his ancient name and his long rent-roll, was a most desirably brilliant match. The Baronet's Bride Money was every thing in his estimation of mankind; talent, fame, titles, mere feathers that kicked the beam the moment a long rent-roll or inscription of three per cents were placed in the opposite scale. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 341, March, 1844 The Government demand increased with the rent-roll to the extent of four lacs of rupees a-year. A Journey through the Kingdom of Oude, Volumes I & II Possibly, if I were his Grace of Bedford, or my Lord Fitzwilliam, I might begin to balance my rent-roll against my raptures. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 335, September 1843 Upon the determination of all leases made before the year 1690, a gentleman thinks that he has but indifferently improved his estate if he has only doubled his rent-roll. The History of the Great Irish Famine of 1847 (3rd ed.) (1902) With Notices of Earlier Irish Famines Lord Blessington was a veritable Croesus among Irish landlords, with a rent-roll of £30,000 a year; allied, it is true, to an extravagance more than commensurate with his revenue. Love Romances of the Aristocracy "Nor I. But I don't want to consider only the rent-roll of the future Lady Bulchester." The Bay State Monthly — Volume 2, No. 5, February, 1885 Lands yielding above nine thousand he has cut off from its rent-roll, and added to those of his hereditary villages on the borders. A Journey through the Kingdom of Oude, Volumes I & II And since they could show no rent-roll, they were permitted to fume unheeded. Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. I There was a decline in respectability and the rent-roll, and no one thinks of South Park now,—at least no one speaks of it above a whisper. In the Footprints of the Padres Mr. William B. Astor minds his own business, and does not impart to others the secrets of his rent-roll. Famous Americans of Recent Times Let the girl's fancy have its swing, and the profits of a year's peltry against thy rent-roll, we shall see her penitent for her folly, and willing to hear reason. The Water-Witch or, the Skimmer of the Seas Last year he seized upon the village of Nudua, with a rent-roll of fourteen hundred rupees, and he holds it with a party of soldiers and two guns. A Journey through the Kingdom of Oude, Volumes I & II Adam was not the only guest invited to come upstairs on other grounds than the amount he contributed to the rent-roll. Adam Bede Genteel, quiet poverty, without doubt—and yet, on the other side of the little bay, a near kinsman whose rent-roll must run to a few thousands a year! Scarhaven Keep He was the owner of Raynham Castle, in Yorkshire; Eversleigh Manor, in Lincolnshire; and his property in those two counties constituted a rent-roll of forty thousand per annum. Run to Earth A Novel When you get rid of these little encumbrances, your rent-roll will be close on four thousand a year. Charles O'Malley, The Irish Dragoon, Volume 2 The whole paid a revenue to Government of between six and seven hundred rupees a-year, and yielded a rent-roll of something more than double that sum. A Journey through the Kingdom of Oude, Volumes I & II Soon after her sister's marriage, she made a conquest of a Scotch nobleman, possessed of a palace in London, and a palace in Scotland, and a rent-roll of forty thousand pounds. Heart and Science A Story of the Present Time For with a little capital, Monsieur le Marquis, your rent-roll might be very greatly increased, the forests and orchards improved, those meadows round S_____ drained and irrigated. The Parisians — Complete In that age, when money meant ten times what it signifies now, the rent-roll of the Church in Toledo was forty millions of reals. Castilian Days Thus meditating, we returned to the house; and Considine, whose activity never slumbered, sat down to con over the rent-roll with old Maguire the steward. Charles O'Malley, The Irish Dragoon, Volume 2 The rent-roll of her estate is, it is said, equal to one hundred thousand rupees a year. A Journey through the Kingdom of Oude, Volumes I & II I married Sir Victor Catheron for his rank and riches, his title and rent-roll—I married the baronet, not the man. A Terrible Secret From what can be gleaned in history, this distinguished personage led a princely life, his enormous rent-roll furnishing the means for a most lordly establishment of retainers, liveries and domains. Picturesque Quebec : a sequel to Quebec past and present Pritchard has the rent-roll of both these estates; and as he has been a good old servant, I recommend him to your lady's favour. Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 4 The inequality of his shoulders was hid under a rent-roll of ten thousand a year. Damon and Delia A Tale The rent-roll, however, exceeds two hundred thousand, and may, in a few years, amount to double that sum, as population and tillage are rapidly extending. A Journey through the Kingdom of Oude, Volumes I & II You are honest enough to confess that you married him—poor boy, poor boy—for his rank and rent-roll. A Terrible Secret Etta, with a strange persistence, brought the conversation ever back and back to the house in London, the house in Petersburg, the great grim castle in the Government of Tver, and the princely rent-roll. The Sowers And so it was now with these two ladies, the handsome Philippa and the fair Eliza leading a peaceful and reputable life, and carefully studying their rent-roll. Mary Anerley : a Yorkshire Tale With a rent-roll that told of my houses and land, To her parents I told my designs— And then to herself I presented my hand, With a very fine pottle of pines! The Humorous Poetry of the English Language; from Chaucer to Saxe They offer him a deduction of this forty thousand, out of a rent-roll rated at one hundred and thirty thousand; and threaten him with the vengeance of his Majesty if he refuses. A Journey through the Kingdom of Oude, Volumes I & II Charley, a great deal because he is Sir Victor Catheron of Catheron Royals, with a rent-roll of twenty thousand a year, and more, and a name that is older than Magna Charta. A Terrible Secret The rent-roll might be about live thousand pounds per annum. Thaddeus of Warsaw Having a rent-roll of 15,000,000 pounds, and belonging to one of the oldest families in Britain, he could afford to be. The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Tales With Condensed Novels, Spanish and American Legends, and Earlier Papers If only Walter Tyrrel could have got his friend to accept such terms, indeed, he would gladly, for Cleer's sake, have asked Le Neve to marry on an allowance of half the Penmorgan rent-roll. Michael's Crag This is the rent-roll declared and entered in the accounts; but it is much below the real one. A Journey through the Kingdom of Oude, Volumes I & II Suppose I told him the truth—that you are mine, not his: mine by the love that alone makes marriage holy; his for his title and his rent-roll—bought and sold. A Terrible Secret She showed him all her papers; her father's will, with a list of his property, and also the accounts of Mr. Holmes, and the rent-roll of her properties in New Orleans. The Moneychangers He took his leave, and rode away the long two-day ride to his own place, where a sadly attenuated rent-roll and a very sadly thinned-down company of servants waited his coming. Rung Ho! If he hadn't been a duke, with a rent-roll of forty odd thousand a year, he'd never have got that beautiful Lady Camilla to consent to marry him. The British Barbarians The country was then divided into equal shares, according to the rent-roll at the time. A Journey through the Kingdom of Oude, Volumes I & II Notwithstanding the vexation I was under, I could scarce forbear laughing in her face at the mention of my rent-roll, which was indeed a severe piece of satire upon my pretensions. The Adventures of Roderick Random "She has inspected our rent-roll, now," said Vizard, pathetically: "and knows nothing about the matter." A Woman-Hater Look, my lord, a testament To make a pension of his lordship’s rent-roll! The Hunchback Pardon me—it is impossible for you to enter into the feelings of a man who has been brought up as presumptive heir to a rent-roll of £12,000. Such Is Life Abud Allee holds also the estate of Pyntee, in the same district, consisting of eighty villages, paying a revenue of thirty-five thousand, and yielding a rent-roll of one hundred and forty thousand. A Journey through the Kingdom of Oude, Volumes I & II Unlike me, however, he was no adventurous soldier of fortune, but a man of peace, with an estate in Provence that had a rent-roll of five thousand livres a year. The Suitors of Yvonne: being a portion of the memoirs of the Sieur Gaston de Luynes But a peer of the realm, and one whose rent-roll is sixty thousand per annum, does not go to ruin in a day. East Lynne With a rent-roll of twelve hundred thousand marks a year? Mark Twain, a Biography. Complete With a rent-roll of twelve hundred thousand marks a year? Mark Twain, a Biography — Volume II, Part 2: 1886-1900 Let the opportunity come to enkindle all this covetousness, and the rent-roll will burn, and with it the turret, and with the turret, the chateau. The Ancient Regime Having a rent-roll of L15,000,000, and belonging to one of the oldest families in Britain, he could afford to be. Condensed Novels It is true that, in accordance with the rules laid down for marriageable young ladies, she scarcely opened her mouth, but her rent-roll of forty thousand livres spoke quite sufficiently for her. The Deserted Woman No, no, only give you a rent-roll of my possessions. Love for Love: a Comedy Owner of the chateau du Rouvre, one of the finest estates in the Gatinais, he had also a rent-roll of some forty odd thousand francs a year from the rich domains which surrounded the park. Ursula |
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