And when you think that there's a lot of washing put out to dry here as well - and we can't stop the tenants doing that - it's not surprising you started to feel unwell.
The table was already laid for a large number of people, as on Sundays almost all the tenants ate their dinner here at midday.
And some of my tenants have gone across the line to snap their dirty hands at me.
Nobody in the house was forgotten; and the rule of law being, it seems, that those with best cause to remember must not witness, two of the tenants were sent for, and wrote down their names legitimate.
At my earnest entreaty, the idea of assembling the tenants especially was allowed to drop, and I was to be inducted at the Midsummer dinner, which was very near at hand.
Much opposition I had to encounter; for the tenants regarded me as a mere interloper, and their hearts were with you and your mother.
He had a fixed impression that all the tenants robbed him, so whenever he found a bunch of grapes in a cottage he proceeded to beat the occupants unless they could prove that the grapes did not come from his vineyards.
It is three million sesterces, though at one time the price was five, but owing to the lack of capital of the tenants and the general badness of the times the rents have fallen off and the price has therefore dropped also.
After all, the tenants of Roseneath Park (whom nobody had seen yet) had come only yesterday.
The abbe, no doubt, had counselled the showing of a firm front and an unconditional refusal to admit that the tenants had any right to interfere with the administration of the estates of the Casa Acorari.
Moreover, the tenants on the second floor never went to mass--at least, so the Abbe Roux had gathered from the porter, whose business it was to know the concerns of every one dwelling in or near Palazzo Acorari.
The princess caused it to be conveyed to the tenants and peasants that she would do nothing of the kind.
It was certain, therefore, that nobody, not excepting Sor Beppe himself, was so thoroughly acquainted with the financial conditions of the tenants on the Montefiano estates as Stefano Mazza, the proprietor of the Caffe Garibaldi.
The risks of bad seasons had to be taken into account; the inability of tenants to pay their rents; the vicissitudes to which live stock was always liable; and many other considerations of a similar nature.
The holdings in question had been for many years under-rented; and the tenants could perfectly well afford to pay the trifling addition imposed.
Possibly she regarded concessions to the tenantsof her second floor as works of supererogation--laudable, perhaps, but not necessary to salvation.
My duty was to see that they were paid, and that the tenants cultivated the land properly.
Then you have not spoken to the other tenants of Mr Blicklin, sir.
Enormous pike, called in Welsh penhwiaid, or ducks-heads, from the similarity which the head of a pike bears to that of a duck, are said to be tenants of this pool.
A very good gentleman is Mr Wynn, sir; he is very kind to his tenants and a very good lady is Mrs Wynn, sir; in the winter she gives much soup to the poor.
The sudden disappearance of the tenants of Rannoch was, I found, on everyone's tongue in Dumfries.
If he would only betray to me the reason he had been induced to entice me to that house, I might then be able to form some conclusion regarding the tenants of Rannoch and their friends.
A mulatto merchant in Hawkinsville, whose creditable store I visited, also owns his plantation in the country and rents it to Negro tenantson the same system employed by the white landowners.
Negro with $1,000 in the Bank The result is that a number of Mr. Brown's tenants have bought and own good farms near the greater plantation.
Besides the residence of the overseer and the homes of the tenants there is on the plantation a supply store owned by Mr. Brown, a blacksmith shop and a Negro church, which is also used as a school-house.
Negro with Nineteen Children Life for the tenantsis often not a pleasant thing to contemplate.
I will rent you an apartment in the building where I myself live if you want it, but I can't let you into my other buildings, because the tenants object.
Sometimes he will offer more wages, sometimes he will give the tenants better houses to live in, and sometimes he succeeds by that sheer force of a masterful personality which easily controls an ignorant tenantry.
I saw a double house built for white people just on the edge of a Negro neighbourhood and held at a rental of $18 a month, but not being able to secure white tenants the landlord rented to Negroes for $25 a month.
The result is that the planters of the West, being able to pay more wages and give the tenants better terms, lure away the Negroes of the East.
Some ambitious tenantswill take a two-mule or even a four-mule farm.
When the Negro tenant takes up land or hires out to the landlord, he ordinarily signs a contract, or if he cannot sign (about half the Negro tenants of the black belt are wholly illiterate) he makes his mark.
Leases had been entered into at high rents during the years of war prices, and in the struggle for holdings tenants at will offered the highest rate.
The tax was levied upon the several windows of a house, so much per window, so that it fell more decisively than before upon the tenants of tenement-houses, and not on the landlords.
These cellar-tenants were subject to the constant action of depressing passions of the mind.
An effort was made to get the consent of the tenants to a readjustment of boundaries on a rectangular system, leaving the size of their holdings unchanged but straightening them out.
Naturally the first thing to be done was to get tenants to acknowledge the ownership of the government.
It was believed to be in the public interest to encourage the several tenants to buy their individual holdings so that they might become responsible landowners rather than remain discontented and ready at any time to become ladrones.
Field labour was performed exclusively by tenants who were settled on the estates in large numbers and in a number of instances had built up large and well-organized towns.
Agitators and demagogues had succeeded in firmly convincing many of the tenants that they were the actual owners of their lands, and those of them who knew better were bright enough to take advantage of the peculiar situation.
Planimeter surveys were made as rapidly as possible, and it was soon found, as had been anticipated, that tenants in general had understated both the size and value of their holdings.
With few exceptions their formertenants absolutely refused to pay rent.
Tenants on the friar estates could be, and not infrequently were, arbitrarily dispossessed, and the possibility that this might occur was a thorn in their flesh.
Your steward will want inspection, your tenants may want redress, your poor always want assistance.
When they were in the country it was highly proper that their tenants and workmen should have the benefit of their example, but in London the case was different.
The steward declares, if he would only raise histenants a very little, he would have more than enough; but papa is inflexible.
His little auditors, who grouped themselves around him on the grass, were nearly convulsed with laughter, nor were the tenants of the bower much less delighted.
There is no necessity for saying anything in reply to the attacks of a few pastoral tenants or large sheep farmers.
Closets and sinks installed in topmost row, tenants of which formerly had to go 360 steps to get water.
On the date the photograph was taken, the hydrant had been out of business for two days and tenants had carried their water from another court across the street.
None but the lowest class of tenants will live in these to-be-abandoned dwellings, and their continued existence constitutes a grave danger from a sanitary viewpoint, not only to the immediate neighborhood, but to the entire city.
These are, however, ordinarily flushed only by the waste water, which flows from the yards directly into them; when conditions become intolerable, the tenants wash them out with a hose attached to the hydrant.
Above all, I sought to learn how the tenants fared in these three things: ventilation and water and sanitary conveniences.
Houses and mills immediately adjoin and tenants are even housed in an old brick building, in another part of which some of the mill offices are located.
This story of one high-spirited New England stockholder and 500 company tenants indicates, moreover, that some investors are willing to lead the public in such demands.
She agrees with the writer that forbearance and consideration are necessary where several tenants live beneath the same roof, but she would impress upon his notice that such consideration should be mutual and not one-sided.
It does not occur to you that under those circumstances you are hardly the right tenants for a flat, but ought to be in a house of your own?
At the latter date besides seventy-three villeins, bordars and serfs there were forty cervisarii, a species of unfree tenants who rendered their custom in the form of beer.
Tenants or neighbours of the great feudal lords were wont to make their arms by differencing the lord's shield or by bringing some charge of it into their own bearings.
Of horse-furniture we have the stirrups of Scudamore and Giffard, the horse-barnacles of Bernake, and the horse-shoes borne by many branches and tenants of the house of Ferrers.
The tenants have some such name for it," said Lawyer Oldport.
He intended that the parlors of these houses should not be sub-let, but that the tenants should be allowed to use them for reception rooms.
One of his tenants who had heard of the disaster, and had been told that only one of the baronets had escaped, was hurrying to the scene of the catastrophe, when he met Sir George Wombwell riding home.
We found, on comparing dates, that the Joiceys had followed my own parents as tenants of the tiny house when the latter gave it up.
The opinion of Allan's conduct among the leading townspeople, the resident gentry of the neighborhood, and the principal tenantson the estate was unanimously unfavorable.
Leave the new steward alone for the present, and just tell me which of those two tenants you would take, if you were in my place.
It was plain that the secret of the tenants had been kept from the landlord so far.
Somebody must meet your tenants on the rent-day who is really fit to take the steward's place.
The Midsummer Audit was near at hand; and the tenants were accustomed to have a week's notice of the rent-day dinner.
His own leases had expired, so that, in one sense, he stood exactly in the same relation to the head landlord, in which his own tenants did to him.
As we are not, however, writing a treatise upon the management of property, we shall confine ourselves simply to the circumstances only of such of the tenants as have enacted a part in our narrative.
At the foundation of what seem exorbitant rents is this demand for modern improvements in old houses, and the atrocious carelessness of tenants of property.
Many of them are known to change tenants two or three times a year.
Tenants have learned to fear the sanitation of old houses, and yet abuse the appliances they should care for.
Now, let any farmer survey in his mind the district with which he is best acquainted, and estimate on how much of it the tenants would give this additional rent, on condition of the game laws being abolished.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tenants" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
