What is "proprietors"

Usage examples of "proprietors".

Madame Tellier, who came of a respectable family of peasant proprietors in the Department of the Eure, had taken up her profession, just as she would have become a milliner or dressmaker.

Wst newspaper proprietors these days - and he actually takes an merest in what people write in his newspapers.

Saturday evening we had taken in at Cumberland a portly passenger, whom we soon discovered to be one of the proprietors of the coach.

When in Maryland, I went into the houses of several of these small proprietors, and remained long enough, and looked and listened sufficiently, to obtain a tolerably correct idea of their manner of living.

Another dwelling of one of these landed proprietors was a hovel as wretched as the one above described, but there was more industry within it.

Party, all traveling under the joint guarantee of the Proprietors, and their Provincial Governments as well.

He sent for the proprietors, and they came and never uttered a protest.

The territory is defined, and is the domain of the state, from which all private proprietors hold their title-deeds.

After the walk, during which Joseph Rivet enumerated the principal landed proprietors, spoke about the yield of the land and the productiveness of the cows and sheep, he took his tribe of women home and installed them in his house, and as it was very small, they had to put them into the rooms, two and two.