The landowner may erect his cattle-pound on one side of the stream in perfect security, although the opposite bank may resound with the hum of swarms of these insects.
Sometimes one person only, generally the most considerable landowner of the district, under the title of juiz da levada, is entrusted with the control of the water, and receives for his services the use of the water during twenty-four hours.
Each landowner in the valley possesses a certain portion of hill-country, where his half-wild cattle, in considerable numbers, manage to find sufficient pasture.
Of course, the fact that a chief or a landowner has bought and paid for a particular privilege or species of taboo, or has inherited it from his fathers, doesn't give him any better moral claim to it.
I am at home now; I seem as if I had always been a great landowner at Lauterbach, and a notable.
But if peradventure some rich landowner of that day came back to assert a claim to the fields, the woods, the pastures of which he used to be so proud, ten to one he would be received like a thief and perhaps die a miserable death.
The landowner has been ruined, and was very anxious for me to buy Saabor, which is surrounded by my estates, but topographical circumstances are no sufficient reason for concluding such a bargain.
A landowner at Angers where he was mayor under Louis-Philippe.
It so happens that the ordinary agricultural landowner leases out his land, not by itself, but together with a variety of other things such as farm buildings, which it costs him a considerable sum of money to provide.
In the Anglo-Saxon laws of Ine, a king who lived in the 7th century, it is enacted that no landowner should be allowed to claim personal labour service from his tenants unless he provides them not merely with land, but with their homesteads.
He was the son of a rich landowner in a neighbouring valley, and, I think, the most beautiful human creature I ever saw.
But even this description implies a wholly wrong emphasis, for he was not primarily a soldier, but a small landowner and cultivator, very much what we should call a squireen.
Mr. Price sought to avoid this conclusion by saying nothing about the individual from whom the landowner or the country from which the United States borrowed in order to increase the fixed capital.
But where the landowner borrows so much money to improve his land that he is unable to hold out till the improvements bear fruit, and must sell his land to pay the interest, he is not rightly accused of over-consumption.
Where ground landowner and builder have a free hand the market value of central ground for small, lofty, cheap-built slums can be made to hold its own for a long time with the business premises which surround them.
If the landowner borrowed money on his estates in order to live in luxury for a season beyond his income, or similarly, if a State raised loans in order to consume powder and shot, the term over-consumption rightly applies.
Late in the evening I was returning on horseback from a fair to the house of a landowner with whom I was staying, had got on the wrong road in the dark and lost my way.
He might with equal probability have been an eccentriclandowner or a gentlemanly ploughman.
To your face I tell you that never in my life have I set eyes upon Landowner Maksimov.
Yes," thought Chichikov to himself, "one can see what a jewel of a landowner lives here.
Also," requested Chichikov, "I should be glad if you would send for the accredited representative of a certain lady landowner with whom I have done business.
Even if a landowner of the day sets up a library, he never looks at a single book in it, but soon relapses into card-playing--the usual pursuit.
My brother-in-law is the leadinglandowner hereabouts.
I am a landowner who has preferred to enter the Public Service.
Occupations which genuinely uplift the soul, seeing that the landowner walks with nature and the seasons of the year, and takes part in, and is intimate with, everything which is evolved by creation.
In Russian society there exist clever folk who can speak in one manner to a landowner possessed of two hundred peasant souls, and in another to a landowner possessed of three hundred, and in another to a landowner possessed of five hundred.
It belongs to Andrei Ivanovitch Tientietnikov, landowner of the canton of Tremalakhan, and, withal, a bachelor of about thirty.
In the same fashion does a landowner say to his bailiff: "Why do you come and tell me that the affairs of my estate are in a bad way?
The case in which you involved yourself when, in a drunken condition, and through the instrumentality of a walking-stick, you offered grave offence to the person of Landowner Maksimov.
By this means they have been enabled to lead a respectable life and to pay the landowner fifty per cent.
But giving evidence before the Lands Commission two years ago, this industrious blacklandowner stated that he had received orders from the Government not to use his machinery except under the supervision of a white engineer.
The capitalist employer had superseded the landowner as the mainstay of the resources and revenue of the realm, and insisted that the prosperity of manufactures was the primary interest of the community as a whole.
The reply was that the critics confused the exercise of the right of proprietorship with the act of commerce, and that in no country was the landowner who farmed his land and sold the produce regarded as a merchant.
At the head of the hundred was a hundred-man, ordinarily elected, but not infrequently appointed by a great landowner or prelate to whom the lands of the hundred belonged.
They had set themselves to break down the rule of the landowner and the Church, to shake off the fetters of Protection, and to establish equality before the law.
The landowner taxed his serfs by a contribution in kind, making them bring a certain quantity of linen, corn, cattle, or a corresponding amount of money.
What the United States needs is a national forestry policy which will induce every landowner to plant and grow more trees on land that is not useful for farm crops.
The Government must do its share, the private landowner must help to the utmost and the public must aid in every possible way, including payment of higher prices for lumber as the cost of growing timber increases.
For I've been a landowner too; I had almost forgotten that in all my misery!
A louse with three tails has escaped, and may be left, in return for a good tip, with the landowner Lasse Karlson, Heath Farm.
It must be remembered that the landowner will not receive the fruits of returning prosperity when it comes for some time after they have reached the farmer.
Two good seasons will be needed before the landowner begins to recoup.
When estates are divided and passed from hand to hand, and the permanent connection which existed between families and the soil is dissolved, the landowner and the tenant are only casually brought into contact.
In America land is cheap, and anyone may easily become a landowner; its returns are small, and its produce cannot well be divided between a landowner and a farmer.
When these laborers come to offer their services to a neighboring landowner or farmer, if he refuses them a certain rate of wages, they retire to their own small property and await another opportunity.
Under this impression the landowner and the tenant himself are instinctively averse to protracted terms of obligation; they are afraid of being tied up to-morrow by the contract which benefits them today.
What could be more natural than that the great landowner should establish as the reward of fidelity among peasants a part of the familiar beast whom they knew best, and whom, to this day, they like best on the table.
Coke of Norfolk," as the Lord Leicester of George II's time was called, was emphatically a landowner who deserved to be magnificently housed.
In the Times that morning there was a report of a case in the north, a landowner fined £100, for letting a farm go to waste for the game's sake.
Only that, in my opinion, it's the duty of every landowner to produce every ounce of food he can, and to do what he's told!
Don't compare yourself to a poor overworked underpaid landowner like me.
I don't want to do anything, but my unlucky fate as a landowner compels me to go over and look at an eel-weir which has just burst.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "landowner" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: landlord; proprietor; squire
