Illustration: A young girl sitting on a low stool by the window mending a rent in her skirt.
Money came so that we were able to pay our rent always on time, and with two exceptions, it came three days before time.
All the upright part, consisting of seven neat rooms, she wanted to rent until spring.
There was just one house to be rented in the place for six months, the balance of the conference year, and this was owned by a hard-fisted landlord, and he wanted his rent monthly in advance.
If Elmsdale were rent by an earthquake just then, he would have watched the toppling houses with equanimity.
Your fine boy would never dream of rending your soul as Angele has rent mine to-day--all because I wished her to read an instructive book instead of a French novel.
From a similar dam and the same sire he bred a yearling bull which realized L250, or nearly the rent of his holding, so Pickering had really overstated his case, making no allowance for the lottery of stock-raising.
A projecting signboard caught his clothing, tore him from the encircling arms, and held him a precarious second until the rent frock gave way.
You have been offended; go to the offender, that the breach may be healed; do not make the rent wider.
The quarter-day: much excitement, lest a rentshould be made among us; my dear christian friends, A.
As the words went out of his mouth the whale rolled over on his side, a well-won prize, and loud shouts from the crews of the boats and from all on deck rent the air.
White is worn for mourning; and when for a very near relative, the collar has a rent in it.
The glittering procession moved slowly on, to the blithe sounds of festal music, while the air was rent with the loyal acclamations of the populace, delighted, as usual, with the splendor of the pageant.
Their firm ranks were rent asunder; and, as the brave men tried in vain to close over the bodies of their dying comrades, the horse took advantage of the openings to plunge into the midst of the phalanx.
Rent collectors were afraid to meet their principals, as no money could be collected.
It is not true that we must choose between the denial or the unlawfulness of leisure; thanks to rent and its natural duration, leisure may arise from labor and saving.
Do two houses which are precisely alike necessarily rentfor the same sum?
If Paris had kept on advancing, Master Pierre would have got more rent from it annually than the whole thing is now worth to him.
The rent of a house is not merely in proportion to what it has cost, but also to the number and means of the tenants.
Haxthausen thinks thatrent would be illusory, in Russia, in case agriculture was carried on with hired workmen.
Rent and interest especially in this respect have to demean themselves in ways diametrically opposed to each other.
And even granting that he is right, that no rent is by itself forever secure (74 seq.
Here rent constitutes a species of reserve fund, which grows greater in proportion as these dangers impend by reason of the decline of wages and of the profit of capital, or interest.
The former, on the other hand, decrease the rentboth in money and corn, but the money rent in a higher degree.
Footnote 179-4: This is the natural rent of capital in contradistinction to the stipulated rent.
The anticipation of rent may render possible the construction of railroads, which enable the land to yield that very anticipated rent.
He raised his head slowly, compressed his lips for a moment, and then whispered: "If he says another word about the rent I will not look at to-morrow.
And the lady would pay a week's rent in advance to secure the room?
Indeed the annual rent of a single acre in England exceeds the price--$10 (£2.
If a farmer, he works and improves the land of others, in constant terror of rent day, the landlord, and eviction.
The whole land-rent amounts to about £5000 per annum, which is a small sum when compared with the profits the proprietors make by the fisheries, in which they are all concerned.
It was an old custom here to pay their rent one half in grease butter at Lammas, and the other half in money at Martinmas.
The air was rent by a scream that made each individual hair of Jimmy's head stand up in its own defence.
Before Jimmy could answer, the air wasrent by a piercing scream and a crash of glass from the direction of the inner rooms.
Warm, fresh, palpitating babies rented as you wouldrent a gas stove!
It was enough for the present that she could sink back upon her pillows and draw a long breath without an evil face bending over her, and without the air being rent by screams.
She said she loved the sound of rent silk, and to gratify her whim many fine pieces of silk were torn to shreds.
Piers, I have piped erst so long with pain, That all mine oaten reeds be rent and wore, And my poor Muse hath spent her spared store, Yet little good hath got, and much less gain.
You pay for the cooking and the rent of the delicatessen store, as well as the proprietor's profit.
We can't afford to buy one, but we might rent it if you make a low price," bargained Julie.
Perhaps we can rent a number of tents, as the summer is now half over.
That used to be the help's cottage, but I had it done over to rent this season.
It removed my veil from its gaunt head, rent it in two parts, and flinging both on the floor, trampled on them: p272.
A pang of exquisite suffering--a throe of true despair--rent and heaved my heart.
Sir, it removed my veil from its gaunt head, rent it in two parts, and flinging both on the floor, trampled on them.
Yet the next year the Governor had in his hands a rent roll, which, however imperfect, must have been of great value in the collection of the rents.
At the time Nicholson had had some thoughts of drawing up "an exact, true, and perfect rent roll.
The quit rent fund was drawn upon for war purposes, building of forts, paying salaries, etc.
The Governor's plea that the fee was necessary in order to bring thousands of occupied, but unpatented acres, under the rent roll seems to have been an afterthought.
Then Adonijah threw dust upon his head, and rent his garments in the vehemence of his sorrow.
The clapping of hands and loud acclamations his admonitory glance demandedrent the air, and were echoed back from the surrounding mountains, to hail the exertions of the master of the world.
But I have paid rent for this place, therefore I am entitled to remain for the night.
By keeping quiet and avoiding the main thoroughfare, they managed to rent a house.
It was much easier for the missionary to rent a place now, and he managed to secure a comfortable home upon the bluff above the town.
Mackay spoke to him politely and asked if he could tell him of any one who would rent a house.
Yes, I can rent you my place," he answered readily.
Now when the young man heard these couplets, he cried out with a great cry and rent his raiment, whereupon they let fall the curtain over him and brought him other robes.
Now when the mock Caliph heard these lines sung by the damsel, he cried with a great cry and rent his raiment to the very skirt, whereupon they let down a curtain over him and brought him a fresh robe, handsomer than the first.
No sooner had the youth heard this poetry than he cried out with a loud cry and rent his raiment to the skirt: whereupon they let down the curtain over him and brought him another suit of clothes.
And he repented when repentance availed him naught, and wept and rent his raiment.
When the false Caliph heard the girl's song, he cried out with a loud outcry and rent his raiment,--And Shahrazad perceived the dawn of day and ceased saying her permitted say.
The rent of land differed of course materially; sixpence an acre seems to have been about the average for arable land in the thirteenth century,[704] though meadow was at double or treble that sum.
Hearne says, that an acre was often called Solidata terrae; because the yearly rent of one on the best land was a shilling.
One of the earliest and most important changes in the condition of the burgesses was the conversion of their individual tributes into a perpetual rent from the whole borough.
Along this space the ground has beenrent in various places.
My informant says that at his house the ground was agitated for some minutes during a rumbling sound, and that a few miles off, the earth was rent and broken for the distance of two miles in length and nearly a half mile in breadth.
After each of these shocks the mountain was found to be freshly rent and broken in various places.
