What is "landowner"

Usage examples of "landowner".

He had led a somewhat dissolute life where it came to women, but at the time of his death he had settled down and planned to marry the daughter of an Anglo landowner.

The home was owned by a wealthy merchant and landowner whose children had moved out years earlier and who eagerly offered his extra chambers to the queen and her handmaid.

As a distinguished landowner of the Auvergne, litterateur of some note, city prefect of Rome until recently, and the likely Bishop of Clermont, he carried too much weight for anyone to openly object to his presence.

The father managed the estate of a wealthy landowner in Poltava and lived apart from his family.

Nicholai Alexandrovich Romanov, merchant, and one of the wealthiest landowners in Petrograd.

The district included under the municipality of Sancerre, distressed at finding itself practically ruled by seven or eight large landowners, the wire-pullers of the elections, tried to shake off the electoral yoke of a creed which had reduced it to a rotten borough.

I was living in the Tambov province, in the country house of a rich landowner, Ivan Matveitch Koltovsky, in a small room on the second storey.

The landowner Maria Adam, for example, had an aunt in Tambov province who had married a neighbouring landowner in the 1850s.

Likewise a levy upon all lands within a drainage district of a tax of twenty-five cents per acre to defray preliminary expenses does not unconstitutionally take the property of landowners within that district who may not be benefited by the completed drainage plans.

The Veneti had betrayed him by refusing to re supply the Saxon levies left behind by the legions, and he had found he had to back a new high king to halt the ever widening chaos that threatened to bring down the powerful southern landowners, his civilized allies.

When they began to divide the land, the tailor gave up drinking vodka, and, being consulted as to how much land was to be divided, and to whom it should be given, he proposed to give allotments to all on equal terms, not taking from the tenants more than was due for each piece of land out of the sum paid to the landowner.

This was the landscape of the Highland Clearances, that brutal depopulation of the countryside where crofters had been driven off their land by rich landowners eager to make the easier money that came with rearing Cheviot sheep.

Tibet are said to have restored the religion in Lhasa at the end of the tenth century, but it was the patronage of the western kingdom of Gu-ge with its capital at Tsaparang that gave the most powerful impetus to what is called the Second Diffusion of the religion, which from then onward became centred in the monasteries, the larger of which, well endowed and populous, began to play the part of landowner and noble in the political and economic structure of a fragmented and decentralised country.

The fascist party Falange, along with rich landowners, the Pope, Italy, Germany, and the U.

There had been the garths of the farmers and the landowners among those younger, newer people who had spread inward from the sea.