A committee of four aldermen and eight commoners for letting the lands and tenements given by Sir Thomas Gresham, who meets at Mercers' Hall on a summons from the Lord Mayor.
The tenements round about this yard are for the most part inhabited by cooks and victuallers; and in the passages leading out of the streets into this market are fishmongers, poulterers, cheesemongers, and other traders in provisions.
These tenements consisted of half an acre of plantable and productive land to each adult, a quantity supposed to be sufficient with industry to furnish him and his family with provision and clothing.
And the third or last of copyhold bondmen, who had tenements of land, for which they were bound to pay in services.
He then gave to these separate tenements of lands, which they were to occupy, and upon which they were to raise whatever they might think most advantageous to their support.
Squalid tenements crowd the narrow promontory where Robert de la Salle stood at the headwaters of the Ohio, in all probability the discoverer of the three rivers.
As soon as the Daughters of the American Revolution received the deed for the property, the work of clearing away the tumble-down tenements which covered the ground was commenced.
To this day, the interest of their fairest cities depends, not on the isolated richness of palaces, but on the cherished and exquisite decoration of even the smallest tenements of their proud periods.
Doors of tenements and houses were beginning to open; heads were beginning to be thrust out through upper windows; the street was beginning to assume a state of pandemonium.
Here tenements and the old-fashioned dwellings of New York's early days incongruously rubbed shoulders with one another.
A lane, as he had expected, ran in the rear of the tenements and Barloff's house.
And I thought of a family in one of those tenementswhere father and mother are both lying ill, with a boy, who ought to be in school, fighting all alone to keep the wolf from the door, and winning the fight.
Several of the tenements were completely gutted, and the wildest excitement prevailed as the panic-stricken tenants, with cries and shrieks of terror, jumped from the windows, or in other ways sought to save themselves.
Parliament passed in the 43rd year of Queen Elizabeth, intituled "An Act to redress the Misemployment of Lands and Tenements theretofore given to Charitable Uses.
Even if a certain class of tenements is particularly liable to fire, it does not follow that it will be held to be very hazardous to the insurers.
What we do not know, and what we want to know, is the proportion the tenements in which such trades and occupations are carried on, bear to the total number of houses in the metropolis.
The girl of the crowded tenements has no room in which to receive her friends or to read the books through which she shares the lives of assorted heroines, or, better still, dreams of them as of herself.
A somewhat similar situation is found in every large construction camp, and in the crowded city tenements occupied by thousands of immigrant men who have preceded their families to America.
For some years before this eve of demolition the homestead had degenerated, and been divided into two tenements to serve as cottages for farm labourers; but in its prime it had indisputable claim to be considered neat, pretty, and genteel.
Large bonfires were burning in the middle of the way, with a view to purifying the air; and from the wretchedtenements with which the lane was lined in those days persons were bringing out bedding and clothing.
Twenty freeholdtenements to be sold, lying in Wapping.
High over the heads of the hurrying humanity in a street of tenements Moira Lynch lighted her lamp and set it close to the bare window.
Demain; after the rent they took their tenements with or without boon.
John le Fraunceys granted on the other hand that Johan, daughter of Ivo, should peaceably have and hold the several lands and tenements granted to her by her father, with the service of villans and bondsmen.
The London Times, and other metropolitan, and many local, journals publish almost daily distressing accounts of the miserable tenements occupied by the men and women whose labor makes England the garden of fertility and beauty that it is.
The tenements of New York are enough alone to take the life out of labor.
This brings us to Mill Street, near a row of humble stone tenements wherein Mr. Oliver Baker discovered, some few years ago, traces of old work dating back as far as the thirteenth century.
Sober, antiquated tenements cling like parasites around the ancient gateway, and the humble Wheat-Sheaf Inn thrusts out its bar-parlour window upon the site of the old town moat.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tenements" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
