What is "tenants"

Usage examples of "tenants".

But however this point may really be, it appears evident that the tenants of this manor have, from the earliest times to which we have the means of resorting for information, enjoyed many unusual rights and immunities, and that their services were, in many respects, far from being so base and servile as those of the strictly feodal tenant.

In the elections of early 1843, the Law and Order group, opposed by former Dorrites, used intimidation of state militia, of employees by employers, of tenants by landlords, to get out their vote.

The new freeholders found that they had stopped being tenants, but were now mortgagees, paying back loans from banks instead of rent to landlords.

Now this second son of his seemed more strange to Wang than any of his sons, for even at the wedding day, which came on, he was careful of the money spent on meats and on wines and he divided the tables carefully, keeping the best meats for his friends in the town who knew the cost of the dishes, and for the tenants and the country people who must be invited he spread tables in the courts, and to these he gave only the second best in meat and wine, since they daily ate coarse fare, and a little better was very good to them.

Servants became tenants, providing cheap labor for the large planters both during and after their servitude.

They made promises to the tenants to gain their support, exploiting their grievances to build their own political careers and maintain their own fortunes.

The tenants now assume the right of doing to their landlord as he has for a long time done with them, viz: as they please.

By 1880, 25 percent of all farms were rented by tenants, and the number kept rising.

When white tenants, failing in the crop-lien system, were evicted from their land and replaced by blacks, race hatred intensified.

Behind them new tractors were going on the land and the tenants were being forced off.

From dinner to tea she would lie in her breeze-rocked cradle, doing nothing except singing old songs - my nursery lore - to herself, or watching the birds, joint tenants, feed and entice their young ones to fly: or nestling with closed lids, half thinking, half dreaming, happier than words can express.

I only once released the catch last night, at eleven-thirty, to let in the third-floor tenants, who had been to see a movie.

I began by questioning the tenants of the building that poor Lognon is known to have visited.

The colours would jell, the tenants would come and at least he would see it complete.

It seems that when the tenants were called on to perform work in hedging, reaping, or hay-making, upon the lands of the lord of the manor, in lieu of money rent he was bound to feed them through the day, and generally to conclude with a merry-making.