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Usage examples of tenant.

Paris in an infinite number of petty questions as to tenants, abutters, liabilities, taxes, repairs, sweepings, decorations for the Fete-Dieu, waste-pipes, lighting, projections over the public way, and the neighborhood of unhealthy buildings.

Russell, of The Scotsman, fulminated against the injustice of refusing a lease to the foremost agriculturist in Scotland--and when you say that you may say of the United Kingdom--because the tenant held certain political opinions and had the courage to express them.

Lord King had recently issued a circular-letter to his tenants, that he would no longer receive bank-notes at par, but that his rents must for the future be paid either in English guineas, or in equivalent weight of Portuguese gold coin, or in bank notes amounting to a sum sufficient to purchase such an equivalent weight of gold.

Winslow, I hope you will consider Babbie and me not merely tenants and neighbors, but friends--real friends.

And Madame Vauthier, formerly cook to the publisher Barbet, one of the hardest lenders of money by the week, slipped along behind her two tenants so as to be able to overtake Godefroid as soon as his conversation with Monsieur Bernard came to an end.

He hired land also of a tenant of the Basha, and sent wool and milk by the hand of a neighbour to the market at Tetuan.

The Beals and I exist by the grace of our tenants, all of whom you have ignored or taxed to the fullest, or we would have starved to death a year ago.

That thought led him to belated recollection of Roger Mac and the new tenants.

John, like all the other local children, had been invited up to the hall for the biannual parties her grandparents gave for their tenants and neighbours.

He glozed the matter thus: he had persuaded the owner it was better to take a good tenant at a moderate loss, than to let the Bijou be uninhabited during the present rainy season.

By letting this conacre land in little patches, a high rent is secured, which the tenants have no option but to promise to pay.

He had a fixed impression that all the tenants robbed him, so whenever he found a bunch of grapes in a cottage he proceeded to beat the occupants unless they could prove that the grapes did not come from his vineyards.

The Clearances emptied these high lands of some fifteen thousand people, most of them crofters, or tenant farmers, whose ancestors had lived here for generations.

Producers of the fruit abroad bearing the said fact in view tie some of the wild fruit when tenanted by the Culex fly to the young cultivated figs.

We went back to the apartment building and, sure enough, found that all of the other recently installed dishwashers had been wired in the same dangerously wrong way, and if they were left that way, they could have eventually electrocuted the tenants.