It was worthy to be ranked with the best of these--a hotel at which the great planters of the Carolinas and of Georgia could feel that the best had been created for them within the very heart of their favorite city.
There were occasional parties given by the planters along the "coast"--as the bottom lands on the Red River were called.
And from the verandah the planters looked at animal and master and commented in low tones on the strange tales told of both, for the reputation of mysterious power that they enjoyed with natives had reached every white man of the district.
The heavy firing at Ranga Duar, echoed by the mountains, must have been heard in the district; and all the planters had probably taken the warning and gone away.
So he was welcomed with the open-hearted hospitality for which planters are deservedly renowned.
The rest were planters from other parts of the Duars, a few members of the Indian Civil Service or Public Works Departments, and a young Deputy Superintendent of Police from Jalpaiguri.
Barclay had heard from the planters the belief in Dermot's divinity which was universal in their district, and perceived that the legend had reached this man.
The planters listened eagerly to her tale, breaking into applause at times.
It said much for her own and her brother's popularity with the planters that their intimacy with him did not cause them to be disliked.
Several of the younger planters ran to the stable and outhouses and brought piles of straw, old boxes, anything that would burn.
With a grim determination to follow her abductors even to Punaka, the capital of Bhutan, he swung his leg across Badshah's neck and set out, having bade Chunerbutty inform Daleham and the planters that he had started in pursuit.
As they entered the Palace gates the mahout of the animal carrying Barclay, Dermot, and two planters called to a native standing idly in the courtyard: "Why wert thou not out with thy elephant, Ebrahim?
All the planters were convinced that the heart and the brain of the disaffection was to be found in Malpura.
No marble or granite palace is it, but a rough wooden shed with one or two rooms built out in the forest far from human habitations, but in a spot as central and equi-distant to all the planters of the district as possible.
For several planters who resided near her road had laid a dâk for her, that is, had arranged relays of ponies at various points of the way to enable the journey to be performed quickly.
If our colonies were to throw themselves into the hands of the North Americans, as their enemies say that some of them wish to do, the planters would make their little triennial trips to New York as they now do to London.
The answer to these questions is to be found in the fact that the farmers and planters of the State can make no manure.
This limitation will not abridge the planters of any liberty they now enjoy--on the contrary, it will then turn their industry to promoting and raising those rough materials.
The planters have labour, that is now wasted, that would be abundant for the conversion of half their crops, if they could but bring the machinery to the land, instead of taking the produce of the land to the machinery.
But slave labour is not adapted to the operations of scientific agriculture, which restores its richness to a wornout soil; and it is found to be a fact that the planters of the Northern slave States, as, e.
Far up the country, where the agents of the old houses were formerly numerous and well supplied with money, the planters are now few and needy, and generally earn but a precarious subsistence as in fact the servants of native capitalists.
The first plantersof Plymouth were our ancestors in the strictest sense.
Hence the reason is plain, why the British sugar planters are growing rich, and demands on them, ever will be greater than they can possibly supply, so long as the English hold this continent, and are unrivalled in the fishery.
To this fairer, more imperial dame gold lace doffed its hat and made its courtliest bow, and young planters bent to their saddlebows, while the common folk nudged and stared and had their say.
A party of upriver planters had been drinking, and a bit of chalk lay upon a settle behind the door upon which the landlord had marked their score.
I will only say that I am employed at present as a waiter at the Planters Hotel, and though I can't save up much money, I am able to live comfortable.
This information was given me by one Thomas Burns, who is employed at the Planters Hotel.
If two planters happened to be using the same mark, the brand was placed upon different spots of the body.
A few great planters debauched the housekeeping of the whole island.
The planters attributed these expensive deeds of manumission to a depraved taste or mania; but we do not know that they laid Greek under contribution for a term, as Dr.
In 1711 the maroons became so insolent that the plantersheld four regular chases or battues per annum.
In 1706 the planters organized a permanent force of maroon-hunters, twelve men to each quarter of the island, who received the annual stipend of three hundred livres.
In Yucatan the planters united in bands of twenty for mutual assistance, working together until the land of all the club was properly seeded.
In the month of Muan the cacao-planters held a festival in honor of the gods Ekchuah, Chac, and Hobnil, who were their patron deities.
The love of gain and power was too strong, on the part of the wealthy and influential planters and merchants who had become slaveholders, to allow the scruples of the Chester meeting to take the shape of discipline.
In the city of Philadelphia, and among the wealthy planters of the country, they found occasion often to exercise a great degree of patience, and to keep a watchful guard over their feelings.
A greater number of these planters are settled in the Middle Veldt.
Still, even here a few planters find it profitable to grow coffee and the sugar cane.
These old French planters are as aristocratic as their noblesse at home, and indeed many of them belong to noble families.
There is lots of good in the niggers; they are merry fellows; and I must say for these old French planters they use their slaves a great deal better than they are as a rule treated by our planters in Jamaica.
I have no doubt the scoundrels whose place we burnt have sent to all the planters in this part of the islands to assemble in force to attack us.
There are, of course, many other plantersthere in the same position as your husband.
We have heard that some of the planters have sent a deputation to Jamaica asking the governor to send troops to take this island for England.
The white planters and employees had perished to a man, and all the smaller villages had been deserted.
Some of the planters here have already lost heart, and have sailed for Jamaica, Bermuda, and other British ports.
Probably there are some large barracoons where the slaves are generally housed, and planters who want them either come or send from all parts of the island.
O tell me, I pray you, if any one can, If plantersacknowledge the brute as a man!
From the West India Planters and Merchants General Prevost likewise received a piece of plate to the value of three hundred guineas.
All the planters live in constant dread of seeing their hands leave them in September.
In Rio I find the sugar-planters in a state of joyful excitement: in a few months the price of sugar has risen by 100 per cent.
One of the means by which the planters maintain their authority and prevent the colonists from becoming conscious of their strength is the prohibition of all societies or associations.
One must not be too ready to accuse the planters of governing as absolute sovereigns.
Some planters lay two cane joints together, others content themselves with but one.
The planters had not finished the whole of their crop, on account of the unusual drought.
The North, having in its ships brought the negroes from Africa and sold them to the plantersof the South, putting the money it got for them in its pocket, turned philanthropist.
Plant now, before everyone is doing it and reap the success the pioneer nut planters in other sections have done.
Next to the neglect, which some of the planters allowed their orchards to undergo, probably the selection of the wrong kind of land has been the cause of more disappointment than any other one source.
The destruction of many young trees of the Santa Barbara type was a blessing to those who planted them, and the planters deserve no sympathy, for the warnings not to plant trees of that type have been ample for many years past.
The planters are obliged, to ship off their sugars as soon as they can procure shipping, because they would become liquid if attempted to be kept for a length of time.
Then how do the majority of turpentine planters in this section make money?
The distress was keenly felt by the planters and small farmers throughout the storm-swept region.
The planters in that section had everything swept away last year, and the flood this year devastated their crops, leaving the tenants in a state bordering on starvation.
Early planters were evidently not aware that most varieties are largely self-sterile, and they did not know that the average Japanese chestnuts are fit for consumption only when cooked.
However, both planters and consumers are generally prejudiced against the chestnut.
Generally speaking, nut tree nurserymen and nut tree planters have not had time nor desire to add to the literature on this subject.
Orchards of all kinds of fruit trees are being planted each year and the planters are content to wait until the trees are large enough in order to reap the benefits thereof.
Planters plant even the smallest one-year layers out a distance varying from ten to twenty-five feet.
After the raid, too, the French and English Governments began to treat the planters of the St Kitts colony unjustly, so that many poor men were forced to leave their plots of ground there.
A French garrison was landed on the island, seemingly to protect the French planters from the English, but in reality to seize the place for the French crown.
They agreed with the sugar and tobacco planters to supply the plantations with meat in exchange for tobacco.
Tobacco they stole from the drying-rooms of planters they disliked.
Outside the town, some of them lying down, some standing so as to get a view of the enemy, were the planters and townsfolk, with their pikes and muskets, waiting for the battle to begin.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "planters" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
