The rack-rented peasantry found no protection in the law courts until 1859, when an act was passed which restricted the landlord's powers of enhancement in certain specified cases.
The Plaza had become too congested, and the Reyes had rented their house to the Military Government.
But you have a better bargain, even so, than if you had rented a seven-room apartment, uptown, for two or three thousand a year.
She was not wholly alone, for with characteristic Teutonic thrift she had rented the lower part of the house to a small family, consisting of a mechanic, his wife, their baby, and a small dog.
The people to whom the widow Schmittheimer had rented the lower part of the house declined to vacate the premises unless we paid them a bonus of fifteen dollars.
We have lived in rented houses all these years, but at no time has Alice abandoned the hope and the ambition of having a home of her own.
My father had rented a deer-forest on a long lease from Cluny Macpherson, and had built a large house there, on Loch Laggan.
He had already made two sporting trips to Central Africa after big game, and rented a large shooting estate near Brunswick.
Sulla rented one of the lower floors for 3000 sesterces (Plut.
Duke of Kent, about fifty years ago, rented a small house, to which he added till it attained its present size, and was named after him, Kent House.
Richard Whashe; and a person of that name rented the more considerable part of it known as Ebury Farm in 1592, direct from Queen Elizabeth.
In the last century a portion of the land about this part was rented by a French Protestant refugee family, named Moreau, of which General Moreau was a member.
In 1668, the Lawrences of Shurdington, in Gloucestershire, rented Cromwell House of the Methwolds.
The Birkheads were once the lessees; at present it isrented by the descendants of Mr. Gamble, of Trinity Chapel.
McGibbon actually rented the space from the Northern Billboard Company.
I therefore rented a room and opened a billiard hall.
After buying him out I rented an office and store room of my own at 243 State street where I am still located, and began a genuine wholesale jewelry business.
I returned to Toledo, where I met Mr. Fleming, who had rented a building and contracted for materials and utensils.
Soon after starting the large shop (10 and 12 Ward Street, Newark), I rented shop-room to the inventor of a new rifle.
He rented a room in the top floor of an office building, bought a cot and an oil-stove, a foot lathe, and some tools.
Johnson and I went in as partners, and Bergmann rented an immense factory building at the corner of Avenue B and East Seventeenth Street, New York, six stories high and covering a quarter of a block.
I rented this to a man who had formerly been my bookkeeper, and who thought he could make money out of manufacturing.
I had rented a small shop in Newark, on the top floor of a padlock factory, by the month.
About three years afterward, it occurred to me that I had not heard at all from the man who had rented this machinery, so I thought I would go over to Newark and see how things were going.
With quiet self-possession he seized his opportunity, began to buy machinery, rented a shop and got work for it.
He rented power from a Jew who owned the building.
She had ten or twelve horses in her stables, rented two or three houses, and kept fifteen servants, while her toilettes were the envy and despair of all feminine Paris.
Raucourt and her father arrived in Paris in the spring of 1772, where they rented a modest apartment in the Rue Saint-Jacques, for though rich in hopes, their purses were light.
She came to the place from foreign parts some three years before the arrival of Preston Cheney, and brought servants, carriages and horses, and established herself in a very handsome house which she rented for a term of years.
Part of a small house in the village of Bankville was rented as their future residence.
He found a pleasant little cottage over on the West side, part of which herented for his mother and sisters.
Lenny Fairfield was sure to be in the way, for his mother rented a few acres of grass land from the Squire, and it was now hay-time.
The man walked through the river to the other bank, where he knew that the land was rented by a farmer.
Once settled there, Vandover's father began to build small residence houses and cheap flats which he rented at various prices, the cheapest at ten dollars, the more expensive at thirty-five and forty.
The English gentleman, the president of the fruit syndicate who had rented the house of Vandover, was now willing to buy it.
During the first weeks of the new year the house on California Street was rented for one hundred and twenty-five dollars to an English gentleman, the president of a fruit syndicate in the southern part of the state.
They rented well at first, scarcely a one was ever vacant.
The old woman I spoke of said it was haunted when she rented it between thirty and forty years ago.
These stores are rented by the month just as other portions of the buildings are, and the owner, on going over his books for a period of five years, found that the average duration of tenancy in them had been less than eight months.
After the receipts of the church began to exceed the expenditures the Deacons invested the surplus funds in cows which were rented out to responsible members of the congregation for 12 lbs.
Abercrombie rented the building, and largely through his efforts the hospital was made a success.
While he was employed in settling his family in a rented house, I visited the market and purchased a horse for him and the other necessary articles, using my own funds until drafts should be received from the Missionary Treasury.
As before stated, the meetings were at first held in a private house, but as the congregations increased, a public building was rented near the foot of Main Street.
The stores in the Church edifice were rented or sold for a term of years to liquidate the indebtedness of the society, and the church was placed on a substantial financial basis.
Tom reluctantly took to the water again, and soon returned with a small rowboat which he had rented from an all-night fisherman.
You rented it for an hour and never brought it back.
I live in a rented house wid my daughter who takes care of me.
In less than an hour after he hadrented the theater, he was dashing off page after page of his proposed drama--the work being done in his room at the hotel.
Having promised my wife that I would abandon the plains, I rented a hotel in Salt Creek Valley--the same house by the way, which my mother had formerly kept, but which was then owned by Dr.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "rented" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: employed; hired; let; mercenary; paid; sublet
