When a landlord has been driven into evicting his tenants, the next step, in the "war against landlordism," is to prevent other tenants from taking the vacated lands and cultivating them.
Thereupon Mr. Tener had the house pulled down, with the result of seeing a statement made in a leading Nationalist paper that he was "evicting the tenants and pulling down their houses.
Whether he thought I was likely to be taken for Mrs. Doherty, of Redcastle, who was one of the evicting landholders at the present time, or only for a suspicious character, I cannot say.
Gabriel being made architect set about his work by clearing out the squatters and the accumulated rubbish in the quadrangle, and evicting the occupants of the stables.
The new poor law, by throwing the maintenance of the poor on the soil, encouraged landlords to extricate themselves from their responsibilities by evicting their tenants.
Gabriel being made architect set about his work in 1758 by clearing out the squatters and the accumulated rubbish in the quadrangle, and evicting the occupants of the stables.
It is constantly argued in the leading organs of English opinion, that the power of the landlords to resume possession of their estates, and turn them into pastures, evicting all the tenants, is essential to the rights of property.
Nor should the fact be omitted that among those good landlords, who abhor the idea of evicting their tenants, are to be found the lineal descendants of some of the most cruel exterminators of the seventeenth century.
They complained of the rapacity of the new landholders who had superseded the old monastic bodies, and who were evicting the old peasantry right and left, and turning farms into sheep-runs, because wool paid better than corn.
The only way of keeping a conquest was to colonize it, as was done with the lands taken from the Welsh; but the English kings shrank from evicting their own kinsfolk, and seldom or never employed this device against them.
It was then that Thaddeus showed the stuff he was made of, evicting "those rascally Jews," and making front against the Russians at the same time; and he was now at Colomea endeavouring to work up those sad arrears.
Evicting the dead sounds strange, but this takes place in Paco Cemetery, in Manila.
But like the first spout of the haggis, his first spout of evicting energy was the hottest.
They, however, never put a finger on the officers of law, all of whom returned home without serving a single summons or evicting a single crofter.
When the evicting party commenced their operations in her township, the aged widow’s house was among the very first that was to be consigned to the flames.
When theevicting officers and factor arrived, the poor old woman was sitting on a couch outside the house.
This, of course, was open to contradiction on the part of those landlords who had not openly avowed their object in evicting the poor Highland families.
Her son was a widower, with four children; and shortly before the time for evicting the people arrived, he went away to labour at harvest in the south, taking his oldest boy with him.
The Sollas evictions did not satisfy the evicting craze which his lordship afterwards so bitterly regretted.
A little law would have saved us from evicting those blackguards at Mullenalick, or kicking Mr. Hall's bailiff before witnesses.
He is gone; God be good to him; he was not, that I know of, one of those evicting landlords that took pleasure in the extermination of the people.
Stewart Trench, the land-agent of Lord Lansdowne, was that time in his glory--evicting the Lansdowne tenantry.
Crawford, whose manner of speech was sanctimonious, was evicting from their parishes ministers who remained true to Episcopacy, and would not pray for William and Mary.
He tells me that you opposed his evictingthe widow, and that the miners are now likely to make serious trouble.
Are you evicting this woman for non-payment of rent?
Then to this peaceful mountain colony came raising of rents like a thunder-clap, followed soon by writs, and then the Sheriff and the dreadful evicting parties.
Things were going from bad to worse; the tension of public feelings was growing tighter day by day; the landlords were evicting apace and gloating over their victims, and saw not that such a state of siege could not last forever.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "evicting" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
