单词 | rente |
例句 | Since then he has been a gentleman of leisure, travelling abroad and living on his rentes.” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z When his three per cent. rentes secure him this sum, he retires from business, and gives his younger fellow-creatures a chance. English Pharisees and French Crocodiles and Other Anglo-French Typical Characters 2010-12-20T17:12:04.833Z From generation to generation the light-hearted habitant cheerfully paid his dîme to the Church, his cens et rente to the Seigneur, his military service to the Governor. Old Quebec The Fortress of New France Such a sum, in the hands of an ordinary Frenchwoman would never have remained on deposit for that length of time untouched, but, if not needed, would have been promptly invested in rentes. Louisiana Lou A Western Story Nearly all had stood behind counters or at cashiers' desks, and had thus never learned more strictly feminine employments, and now, retired upon their rentes, they found time heavy upon their hands. Lippincott's Magazine, November 1885 His employers offered a year and a half's pay to the young widow—that is to say, about six thousand dollars, which she immediately invested in five per cent government rentes. With Those Who Wait He prophesied the rente conversion scheme and the four per cent. bonds, and from this topic we diverged to politics. Dr. Dumany's Wife The Canadian seigneur held his lands of the King, and the habitants, or cultivators of the soil, held theirs of the seigneur upon the performance of specific duties and the payment of cens et rente. Old Quebec The Fortress of New France This is because rentes are supposed to be perpetual. The War After the War It was in this way that as St. Martin's day, November 11th, approached the people were reminded of the falling due of the cens et rentes. A Canadian Manor and Its Seigneurs The Story of a Hundred Years, 1761-1861 Therefore, since I was at hand, and would be a wealthy man some day, and indeed even now did very well on my French rentes, he had set his heart on this. Oddsfish! The Hungarian rente had at that time just been introduced into the market, and Mr. Dumany predicted for it a fair success. Dr. Dumany's Wife Would Ireland's credit stand better than that of Hungary, whose 4 per cent. gold rentes stand at 92, or of the Argentine, which has to borrow at nearly 5 per cent.? Against Home Rule (1912) The Case for the Union For a man to have his name on the Grand Livre is to constitute him what is called a rentier, rentes being the French word for dividends from the public funds. France in the Nineteenth Century During her life with Lady Henry she had saved the whole of her own small rentes. Lady Rose's Daughter Reckoned in terms of present-day rentals, the cens et rentes amounted to half a dozen chickens or a bushel of grain for each fifty or sixty acres of land. Crusaders of New France A Chronicle of the Fleur-de-Lis in the Wilderness Chronicles of America, Volume 4 It seems, however, that the French rentes maintain their quotation of seventy-five francs. Paris War Days Diary of an American She has a small rente, and will not be in any need.' Eleanor It turned out that she possessed a small rente which had belonged to her mother, and which her father had never been able to squander. The History of David Grieve We must also give them the credit of having first commenced a public debt, under the name of rentes perpetuelles, which at that time realised eight per cent. Manners, Customs, and Dress During the Middle Ages and During the Renaissance Period With the cens went the rentes, the latter being fixed in terms of money, poultry, or produce, or all three combined. The Seigneurs of Old Canada : A Chronicle of New World Feudalism Cens, surcens and rentes due on real property of different kinds, houses, fields, meadows, etc., situated in the territory of the seigniory. The Ancient Regime I would have sold my rentes; she should have had some of the principal, and I would have bought a life-annuity with the rest. Father Goriot Down to the present day the great majority of them continue to pay their rente constituee as did their fathers before them. The Seigneurs of Old Canada : A Chronicle of New World Feudalism The cens et rentes made up the only payment which the seigneur received each year, but there was another which became due at intervals. The Seigneurs of Old Canada : A Chronicle of New World Feudalism The seigneur had the right to say whether he wanted his rentes in money or in kind, and he naturally chose the former when prices were low and the latter when prices were high. The Seigneurs of Old Canada : A Chronicle of New World Feudalism |
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