I rentsby de month but I pays by de week--a dollar.
Wherever extensive surfaces of the strata were exposed, as in the channels of rivers, they were observed to be traversed by rents crossing each other at various angles.
Rents in tattered, shell-torn uniforms disclosed gaping wounds, some of which had received a hasty dressing on the battlefield, while others were still raw and bleeding.
He then told Ysanjo to take from the rents of the island, which had accumulated, enough to build a monastery by that chapel, in honour of the Virgin Mary, and to endow it for thirty friars.
A good man called Sisian, whom Andalod brought, remained there, and thirty Friars with him, and Amadis assigned to them rents enough, and Andalod then returned to the Poor Rock as before.
I have ventured to patch only a few of the many rents in the old coat of 1609.
Out here, gentlemen, a hole in the ground rents for at least $250 a month.
Sir Giles doesn't care, for he is paying all this out of rents of property, the title to which came from a King who stole the ground, and he has enough anyhow.
Then the rents began to be put up so as to produce something like.
I am here to see royalty, and everybody that I come in contact with, from the boy who cleans my boots to the lady who rents me my rooms, sing hosannas to the system that brings me here to be plundered.
Rents are somewhat too high to permit that luxury, and besides they never were used to it, and it wouldn't suit them at all.
The island is full of fathomless rents and fissures.
These rents in the interior of the earth had a knack of enlarging themselves, without a word of warning, from cracks of a few inches to black gulfs several hundred feet across.
I have also to tell you that I have distrained Wat the warrener from his cottage, for his Christmas rent is still unpaid, nor the hen-rents of last year.
And in 1391 why did the dean and chapter give one-twentieth of all their rents to the works?
The anticipated fall in wheat, though long delayed, has come at last; at last the land is falling out of cultivation, and the rents go back once more, and the labourers have lost their extra shillings.
His own followers were thinking more of theirrents than of the moral condition of the people.
Unless they volunteered to serve as magistrates the landlords had but to receive their rents and do as they pleased with their own.
The ground-rents have made him fabulously rich, while, innocent of a suspicion that his wealth has brought obligations along with it, he lives in vulgar luxury in his adjoining castle.
In every other quarter harmony prevailed until the time came when, by the provisions of the Concessions, the first quit-rents became payable by those holding lands under the Proprietors.
A Practical Treatise on the Law of Ground-Rents in Pennsylvania.
The Proprietary was still allowed to receive his quit-rents and export duty, but all his other prerogatives were at an end.
The chief source of the revenue derived by the Proprietary from the Province arose from the quit-rents which, from the earliest period, had been charged on all grants of land.
Do landlords in cities and towns retain for themselves only the rent of buildings and hand over to the government the full amount of their ground rents as tax?
Subsequently the Court of Chancery assented to a scheme whereby the rents are portioned amongst the national schools, etc.
The Lieutenant had, on Twelfth eve, late in the night, sent out to collect his rents in Ramme Alley and Fleet Street, limiting five shillings to every house.
The wreck of the building, with the rents they made in its walls, is visible even now.
Ways and means must be found to obtain money, for even his mother's rents did not come in as they ought to have done, and she expected to be reduced to borrowing, or breaking up her household.
It was within a week of Michaelmas Day, when rents fell due.
Sir John's bailiff ordered the Paston tenants to pay norents to Mr. William Paston; but one Henry Warns wrote to Mr. William of the occurrence, and ordered them to pay none to any one else.
People must get their rents in somehow, mustn't they?
Several large rents running to the top have been made, and it now presents a most dilapidated appearance.
This rent was due on land let at considerably under the Poor Law valuation, and the rents were only half what was paid in 1860.
He observes that in 1881 my firm had the supervision of eighty-eight estates, upwards of three thousand farming tenants, and annually collected rents to the value of a quarter of a million sterling.
With very rare exceptions the salary has been five per cent, on the rents received.
Dairy farmers prospering had been particularly well able to pay rents and other claims.
This is a remarkable case, and proves that poverty and the cry of starvation are not always the result of rents and taxes, as the Irish patriots and their English separatist allies so frequently assert.
The rents then were about double what they are now (though half what they had been at the beginning of the nineteenth century), yet, with good potato crops, people seemed content and times were fairly good.
For example, the bishops and parish priests laboured assiduously to get Lord Granard his rents from his estates in Longford.
The tendency has gradually been to consolidate and amalgamate land agencies, for as the difficulty of getting rents increased, more competent men of experience and judgment were needed by the landlords.
On looking at the back of it, there are several rents or cracks to be seen in the solid masonry, and the slates are shaken and displaced.
Land given up to sheep cannot support the high rents paid by the producers of cereals; this is the principal cause of the decline of sheep-farming all the world over.
Harley Lodge and my mother's property are all that I can claim; and I do not think you will make me pay back rents for that which I have not kept willingly.
At the first cast of the eye the little drawing-room seemed elegant, but after a while, through spots and rents mended carefully, want was observed creeping forth.
He wore a pair of enormous moustaches, which were twisted up almost to his ears; his attire, which had once been richly laced, was full of rents and holes.
Our sorrows make rents through which His strength flows.
The ancient world was honeycombed with rentsand schisms, scarcely masked by political union.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "rents" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
