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Example sentences for "proprietors"

Lexicographically close words:
propriete; proprietes; proprieties; proprietor; proprietorial; proprietorship; proprietory; proprietress; propriety; propriis
  1. The proprietors and tradesmen specially affected by the change would lose not only in wealth, but in the means of enjoyment.

  2. Again, the national debt is wealth to the proprietors of stock, but as the sum received in dividends is paid in taxes, it cannot form a part of the wealth of the nation.

  3. The ground-floor contains committee and other rooms, in which the directors and proprietors transact business.

  4. Let those large proprietors be what they will, and they have their chance of being among the best, they are, at the very worst, the ballast in the vessel of the commonwealth.

  5. That wily Pole regularly every year put his Imperial master's summer excursion up to auction, and according to the biddings of the proprietors of the chief baths did he take care that his master regulated his visit.

  6. Some miraculous invention in machinery entitled him to a patent, which has made him one of the great proprietors of England.

  7. Had the conduct of the Irish proprietors (in their character of landlords) been taken to task at the same period, no question they were deeply to be condemned.

  8. Ehrenthal alluded to a great joint-stock company of landed proprietors which lent money on a first mortgage on estates.

  9. It was just the time when numerous industrial speculations had started up, and landed proprietors looked upon them as the best way to increase their means.

  10. The slaves of small proprietors are not so liable to imbibe many of the faults to which those of wealthy men are subject, and they possess more pride,—a greater wish to act honourably,—a greater dread of being upbraided for a fault.

  11. A British vessel was wrecked near Natal, and I have always understood that the proprietors were perfectly satisfied that every exertion possible had been made use of to save the property.

  12. This is only a portion of a picture by Mr. Melton Prior, the well-known special artist, for which I am indebted to the proprietors of Sketch.

  13. This is part of a page illustration lent by the proprietors of Sketch.

  14. Let us now look at two examples of wash drawing by process, lent by the proprietors of Black and White.

  15. It had all commenced with the seizure of his furniture by the proprietors of the apartment house.

  16. He came back from the bank, the money in his pocket, and went up to the room directly, with some vague intention of writing to the proprietors of the apartment house at once.

  17. As hereditary Proprietors both appoint their Lieutenant Governors, who are confirmed by the King, and reside in the Provinces.

  18. The proprietors of the fisheries defray the expense of this breeding establishment, being taxed only twopence in the pound of their rental.

  19. And one of the proprietors was at their head, in a rather summer dress, and with a seethed and crimson face beaded with hot perspiration.

  20. They got possession of a large district of land, and in process of time multiplied and prospered until they numbered eight different proprietors by the name of Groat.

  21. Proprietor's salary: Many battery service station proprietors do not charge their own living as an expense.

  22. His defense, of course, will be that the French-Restaurant proprietors voluntarily presented him with it.

  23. Some proprietors were called upon to show cause why their licenses should not be revoked.

  24. In 1642 the proprietors of the island conveyed it to the township "for and toward the maintenance of a free school in Dorchester aforesaid for the instructing and teaching of children and youth in good literature and learning.

  25. By permission of the proprietors of the Racing Pigeon.

  26. To the proprietors of Glen Alpine, and the visitors, the French name is absurd and out of place.

  27. If my lord should grant (and I will put it with the most) that they who are proprietors in land, exceeding this proportion, exceed not 300, with what brow can the interest of so few be balanced with that of the whole nation?

  28. This is the first serious accident that has occurred upon this line, which appears to be most carefully conducted; one of the active proprietors or more--the Messrs.

  29. The old house had a picturesque colonnade; but in 1839 new proprietors rebuilt it; which rash proceeding, however, killed the custom.

  30. Punch's shows used to lean against the dead wall in Mews Street, while their proprietors were dining elsewhere; and the dogs of the neighbourhood made appointments to meet in the same locality.

  31. Considerable injury has been done to the proprietors of the improved frames.

  32. I have seen one of the proprietors and the editor," said the lawyer, "and they are quite willing to apologise.

  33. It seems no objection to such operations that proprietors will indirectly benefit by them.

  34. At the same time, the Board must require the co-operation of proprietors where-ever they can, and must insist for such terms as the circumstances of each case may recommend.

  35. The Daraihans are good and intelligent cultivators, many of them being proprietors or large tenants, and unlike the Daharias they do not object to driving the plough with their own hands.

  36. In the tracts where they reside they are commonly village proprietors and superior tenants.


  37. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "proprietors" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.