But I don't want to consider only the rent-roll of the future. From Wordnik.com. [The Bay State Monthly — Volume 2, No. 5, February, 1885] Reference
But, after all, what mattered this to General Stanley, who had a fine rent-roll elsewhere?. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXVI. October, 1843. Vol. LIV.] Reference
Thus, from being a rejected waif, the boy became the acknowledged heir to a peerage, and a long rent-roll. From Wordnik.com. [Celebrated Claimants from Perkin Warbeck to Arthur Orton] Reference
Philippa and the fair Eliza leading a peaceful and reputable life, and carefully studying their rent-roll. From Wordnik.com. [Mary Anerley] Reference
Gazebee, the sharp gentleman from London, reigned over the diminished rent-roll of the Greshamsbury estate. From Wordnik.com. [Doctor Thorne] Reference
The Earl of Fitzkillingham, with a rent-roll of fifty thousand a year, has no need to do; he has only to be. From Wordnik.com. [The Beth Book Being a Study of the Life of Elizabeth Caldwell Maclure, a Woman of Genius] Reference
He, with his clerks, collects rents, and makes returns of a rent-roll, whose very recital would be wearisome. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No. 2, August, 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference
Lord Southbourne was an exceptionable viscount with weak brains and a large rent-roll whom Margaret had refused six months before. From Wordnik.com. [A True Friend A Novel] Reference
And then, as he thought of his balance at the bank, his large rent-roll, and his many profitable investments, his face grew very grave. From Wordnik.com. [The Golden Shoemaker or 'Cobbler' Horn] Reference
'N ... o,' she answered, with some hesitation; 'for Miss Margland says he's got no rent-roll; besides, I don't think he's so agreeable as. From Wordnik.com. [Camilla] Reference
The town owes its importance entirely to being the headquarters of the maharaja of Burdwan, the premier nobleman of lower Bengal, whose rent-roll is upwards of £300,000. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"] Reference
Upon the determination of all leases made before the year 1690, a gentleman thinks that he has but indifferently improved his estate if he has only doubled his rent-roll. From Wordnik.com. [The History of the Great Irish Famine of 1847 (3rd ed.) (1902) With Notices of Earlier Irish Famines] Reference
The rent-roll of his Grace was great: but that of his. From Wordnik.com. [The Young Duke] Reference
'And who exhibits the title-deeds, rent-roll, and plan?'. From Wordnik.com. [Guy Mannering — Complete] Reference
Her rent-roll during the last-eighty years has risen from. From Wordnik.com. [The Letters of "Norah" on Her Tour Through Ireland] Reference
With a rent-roll of twelve hundred thousand marks a year?. From Wordnik.com. [Mark Twain, a Biography. Complete] Reference
'I wonder what his father's rent-roll is?' said Mr. Ormsby. From Wordnik.com. [Tancred Or, The New Crusade] Reference
The rent-roll might be about live thousand pounds per annum. From Wordnik.com. [Thaddeus of Warsaw] Reference
I have consulted Picard and shown him the rent-roll and balance-sheet I had already shown you. From Wordnik.com. [White Lies] Reference
Lieutenant Avery, whose whole year's income was about equal to one week of her father's rent-roll. From Wordnik.com. [Clare Avery A Story of the Spanish Armada] Reference
His wife's nephew was an Earl with an enormous rent-roll, something so large that Humblethwaite and. From Wordnik.com. [Sir Harry Hotspur of Humblethwaite] Reference
"Aha!" laughed Schurz, "you are adopting an aristocratic profession, one which requires a rent-roll.". From Wordnik.com. [Historical Essays] Reference
Victor Catheron for his rank and riches, his title and rent-roll -- I married the baronet, not the man. From Wordnik.com. [A Terrible Secret] Reference
You are honest enough to confess that you married him -- poor boy, poor boy -- for his rank and rent-roll. From Wordnik.com. [A Terrible Secret] Reference
'A man by the very look of him promises so much: 'yes; and by the rent-roll of him does he promise nothing?. From Wordnik.com. [Past and Present Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII.] Reference
"I know those who would not see him with his foot in a new-made grave for the best rent-roll in Christendom!". From Wordnik.com. [Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 2 (of 2)] Reference
I might prevent their being beggars, if I chose it; for I could give 'em as good a rent-roll as your lordship. From Wordnik.com. [Scarborough and the Critic] Reference
Godfrey Bertram of Ellangowan succeeded to a long pedigree and a short rent-roll, like many lairds of that period. From Wordnik.com. [Guy Mannering — Complete] Reference
Princess too, that she had found a rent-roll of your estate in a farmhouse, and that it is fourteen thousand a-year. From Wordnik.com. [The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 3] Reference
"There was a time once, my dear, that I might have married a gentleman of title, with a rent-roll of six thousand a year.". From Wordnik.com. [The Maidens' Lodge None of Self and All of Thee, (In the Reign of Queen Anne)] Reference
It is said that the rent-roll of the Yorkshire estates of the late Sir Temple Devereux is not less than 15,000L. per annum. From Wordnik.com. [Henrietta Temple A Love Story] Reference
He talked of nothing else for a week after, but the heiress, and the flea, and the rent-roll, and the old turreted house of. From Wordnik.com. [Spare Hours] Reference
At Turton Tower, a few miles distant, dwelt a cavalier of high birth, whose pedigree was somewhat longer than his rent-roll. From Wordnik.com. [Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 2 (of 2)] Reference
In his cap was observed an hereditary sapphire, which blazed like a volcano, and which was rumoured to be worth his rent-roll. From Wordnik.com. [The Young Duke] Reference
No notice was taken of the rent-roll; but between the second and third stanza these four lines were written, in a very fine hand. From Wordnik.com. [Citation and Examination of William Shakspeare, Euseby Treen, Joseph Carnaby, and Silas Gough, Clerk] Reference
You and your Order think no man should ever presume to touch politics unless his coat be velvet and his rent-roll large, like yours. From Wordnik.com. [Wisdom, Wit, and Pathos of Ouida Selected from the Works of Ouida] Reference
Yorkshire; Eversleigh Manor, in Lincolnshire; and his property in those two counties constituted a rent-roll of forty thousand per annum. From Wordnik.com. [Run to Earth A Novel] Reference
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