But my tacksmen are free to do as they choose, and my tacksmen understand me.
Lochiel’s tacksmen are taking the oaths by the hundreds, the Macphersons and the Frasers, the Munros and the Macleods are come in—” Her voice was sharp and angry.
The Tacksmenof Col seem to live with less dignity and convenience than those of Sky; where they had good houses, and tables not only plentiful, but delicate.
Wherever there is a house, the stranger finds a welcome, and to the other evils of exterminating Tacksmen may be added the unavoidable cessation of hospitality, or the devolution of too heavy a burden on the Ministers.
If the Tacksmen be taken away, the Hebrides must in their present state be given up to grossness and ignorance; the tenant, for want of instruction, will be unskilful, and for want of admonition will be negligent.
The Tacksmen and the Ministers have commonly houses.
If the Tacksmen be banished, who will be left to impart knowledge, or impress civility?
The baron-bailie and Neil Campbell, and even the minister, made no ado about their hunger, though they were suffering keenly from it; only the two tacksmen kept up a ceaseless grumbling.
Sonachan and Ardkinglas and the tacksmen came over to listen, and the man with the want began to weep with a child's surrender.
Below these gentlemen tacksmenwere those who paid a much lower rent, and who lived very comfortably, and shared hospitality with others, the gifts which God gave them.
There was a class of lairds who had tasted the sweets of southern luxuries and who vied with the more opulent, increased the rate of rent to such an extent as to deprive the tacksmen of their holdings.
To these tacksmen it was injury enough that an alien government should interfere in their domestic relations, but for the chief to turn against them was a wound which no balm could heal.
Many of those displaced by sheep and one or two Lowland shepherds, emigrated like the discontented tacksmento America, and those who remained looked with an ill-will and an evil eye on the intruders.
The merchants are nottacksmen of any tenants, but they have farms?
It is plain that the right to have men bound to give fish is regarded as a valuable one, since tacksmen so shrewd as Messrs.
Are you aware whether the tacksmen of Burra interfere with the tenants in the sale of their cattle hosiery, or eggs?
I think the system of the men being compelled to fish to the landlords or tacksmen on certain estates is a bad system, and should be abolished.
Are you aware whether the tacksmen insist on the tenants taking their supplies from their shops at Scalloway or Lerwick?
You do so because you are the tacksmen yourselves?
Is it not the case that some of them went to Burra and resumed fishing, and delivered their fish green to the tacksmen there?
Have you known cases in which proprietors or tacksmen attempted to get their ships manned from their estates, not by compulsion, but by persuasion or influence?
And you don't know of fish-merchants or tacksmen who are in the habit, to a large extent, of squaring their debts in that way?
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tacksmen" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
