At best she could only regard me as a landless outcast, whom she had once seen pilloried in Falmouth town and pelted by hooting boys.
A landless wanderer, who had been pilloried as a vagabond, and hooted at by the scum of the earth.
The landlessclasses were ground down by usury and oppression, for in that state of society the landless man had no career in trade, and was at the mercy of the landholding capitalist.
The conditions of the land tenure were such that it was impossible, if they were respected, that large estates should accumulate in the hands of individuals, and a landless proletariate could not arise.
As towns grew in size and the number of landless citizens increased, the restrictions were defended with even more vigor.
In New York, for example, the most illiterate farmer who had one hundred pounds' worth of land could vote for state senator and governor, while the landless banker or merchant could not.
One knight, two squires, and a faithful chaplain, alone would abide by the fortunes of the landless prince.
The landless William of Salisbury, going to the Pope, who was then at Lyons, thus addressed him: "Your Holiness sees that I am signed with the Cross.
If all were indeed lost in England, he would thus be far from a landless Prince, and her wealth might become a great assistance to the royal cause in England.
Previous to the entry he was in the field, without a fixed base; after his flight he was landless till at the end both of 920 AH.
Ay, in the days of the Round Table; but when Dukes and Counts, and great Marquesses and Barons swarm like mayflies by a trout stream, what chance is there that a poor, landless exile will have a word or a glance?
You find it difficult or impossible to think that he and his landless valet are in any sense equal.
He was a landless man, and had been slave to some King in the East.
Side by side we fought against all who came--thrice a week sometimes we fought--against thieves and landless knights looking for good manors.
Swordless and landless art thou, Hugh; and they call thee kin to Earl Godwin.
As the struggles for power grew in severity, each noble hired such mercenaries as he could, for instance the landless nobles just mentioned.
Moreover, landless peasants were to receive land to till, at the expense of those who possessed too much.
Some of thelandless nobles perished; some offered their services to the remaining feudal lords as soldiers or advisers.
Its princes and generals and many of its gentry became landless and homeless and had to flee into the south.
The landless members justly complained that they had to bear the same burdens as those who possessed the land, and that therefore they ought to enjoy the same privileges.
Commune, and thereby adding to the ranks of the landless proletariat, in order to increase the amount of cheap labour for the benefit of the capitalists.
The landless men formed combinations, disputed with the landlords, and asked and often got twice as much as the old rates, despite of the murmurings of the employer.
He was but a landless adventurer, with nothing but his sword and his honor, and kings he knew were slow to pay back benefits, or recollect the hands that hewed them free passage to their thrones.
Her first instinct was insulted pride--a beggared gentleman, a landless soldier, spoke to her of love!
I seemed to have left the real world behind me, and to have entered upon a landless region of sky, trees, and water.
The thought of what I should do in this landless region if my frail shell, in its rapid flight to the sea, happened to be pierced by a snag, was, to say the least, not a comforting one.
But these services and the time of rendering them were strictly limited by custom, not only in the case of the ceorl or villein but in that of the originally meaner "landless man.
The landless man who dwelled in a borough had no share in its corporate life; for purposes of government or property the town consisted simply of the landed proprietors within its bounds.
Less than twenty years earlier he had been a landless pirate striving to dislodge an ancient and honoured dynasty; now he was the lord of four important realms and the overlord of other kingdoms.
Economic reasons, both of eastern and western motive, were gathered under the banner of its idealism, till finally it came to be an ensign not only of free soil for the landless but of free soil for the slaves.
Had it been allowed to continue, such state-assisted emigration, by providing the landless poor of Italy with farms abroad, would have relieved the economic distress of the peninsula.
Rather would I live on earth as the hireling of another, even with a landless man who had no great livelihood, than bear sway among all the dead.
By planning great colonies beyond the sea, notably at Corinth and Carthage, he sought to provide farms for the landless citizens of Italy.
Come on, you village curs, you landless cripples, you wifeless sons of burnt fathers!
They are allowed to believe that to be born "spacious in the possession of dirt," or free to wallow in unearned money, is honourable, and that to be poor and landless is a proof of inferiority.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "landless" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
