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...e doralu had no qualms in making vassals out of the hapless women folk. What with the police patels and the revenue patwaris in nexus with the landed gentry and the moneyed shaukars making a common cause with the doralu in their unabated exploitation, their sub-human condition ensured that the dalits were distressed economically, degraded socially and debased morally. Ir...

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... representatives and with the indigenous elites - the church and the feudal landed gentry. It was a cosy and pragmatic arrangement that lasted for ...

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...ic days introducing her com- pany to her. This was chiefly of the Catholic gentry, of whom there were a pretty many in the country and neighboring cit... ...anything. It was As- sizes at Hexton, and there was a great meeting of the gentry at the “Bell;” and my lord’s people had their new liveries on, and H... ...t Newbury, should declare for the King on a certain day, when likewise the gentry affected to his Majesty’s cause were to come in with their tenants a... ...aithful subject lent him. There were various letters from the nobility and gentry, some ardent and some doubtful, in the King’s service; and (very luc... ... ’Tis known that King William was disposed to deal very leniently with the gentry who remained faithful to the old King’s cause; and no prince usurpin... ...rranged so as to bring him ease and give him pleasure. She liked the small gentry round about to come and pay him court, never caring for admiration f... ...King Charles—and to this house, whither indeed a great part of the country gentry went, my lord in- sisted upon going, not only himself, but on taking...

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...E—AN INN ENTER Hostess, Charles, Maria, and Cook. Hostess to Maria) If the gentry in the Lion should want beds, shew them number 9. 94 Love and Frien...

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...Mr. Bloomfield; and, doubtless, he was one of those genuine thor- oughbred gentry my mother spoke of, who would treat his governess with due considera... ...cent ball, which her mamma proposed to give to all the nobility and choice gentry of O— and its neighbourhood for twenty miles round. Of course, she l...

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...but one way of dealing with it, and that is to fall sword in hand on those gentry there, sabre a la main sur ces gaillards la,” (Moniteur, Se- ance du... ...s suddenly all rallying. Now were the time to ‘fall sword in hand on those gentry there, ’ could it be done with effect. The Hero of two Worlds is on ...

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...en and their attendants, or by the superfluous daughters of the nobles and gentry. Such devotion as led Esclairmonde to the pure atmosphere of prayer ... ...e temptation of running into any such lengths as those 120 The Caged Lion gentry who had plundered the shrine of St. Fiacre at Breuil, or were contin...

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...station and unspotted character, he had been held in high respect. The old gentry of the prov ince were looked upon almost as noblemen while Massa c...

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...schools were then held beneath the dignity of both the nobility and higher gentry. “I may, however, send him to study at Cambridge under some trusty p... ... not only was he in fear of an attack on the house from the Roman Catholic gentry in the neighbourhood, which was to take place as soon as Parma’s shi... ...ady, deaf, and extremely fat and heavy, one of the old uncultivated rustic gentry who had lagged far be- hind the general civilisation of the country,... ...ory gland, at the utmost peril of their lives, to keep up the faith of the gentry, and in many cases to intrigue for Queen Mary. Among these plotters ...

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...great envy had this sack occasioned, that when Mr. Allworthy and the other gentry were gone from church, the rage, which had hitherto been confined, b... ...ften productive of much mischief and discontent among the inferior rank of gentry, who are apt to find great diffi culty in assessing the sum, with e... ... be a gentle man to be sure, if he is a horse racer. The devil fetch such gentry! I am sure I wish I had never seen any of them. I have reason to lov...

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...conducti, mili- tant. To these mercenary soldiers, as well as to the needy gentry with whom they were mixed in command, and who easily imbibed the sam...

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...d with all his strength, though he would not go the length of the Scottish gentry, who were for resisting it by force of arms. ’Twas said he withdrew ... ...he feelings of more than half the nation, of almost all the clergy, of the gentry of England and Scotland with him; entirely innocent of the crime for... ...ly unshaken in their King. A very great body of Tory clergy, nobility, and gentry, were public partisans of the exiled Prince; and the indifferents mi...

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...he First forced our great grandfather. We are above titles; we old English gentry don’t want ‘em; the Queen can make a duke any day. Look at Blandford... ...ing the bodies as they lay on the field, and Jack had brained one of these gentry with the club-end of his musket, who had eased Esmond of his hat and...

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...126 Who should attend on him? He makes vp the File 127 Of all the Gentry; for the most part such 128 To whom as great a Charge, as littl...

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...” He called himself and his pals “rerum domi- nos, gentemque togatam;” the gentry that wore the toga. Yes, and a pretty affair that “toga” was. Just f... ...on after Pope’s Lady Suffolk. But then Cowper was living amongst the rural gentry, not in high life; yet, again, Cowper was nearly connected by blood ...

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...ead that day on Flodden Field; and among them, numbers of the nobility and gentry. For a long time afterwards, the Scottish peas antry used to believ... ... the poor people refused, they were pressed as soldiers or sailors; if the gentry refused, they were sent to prison. Five gentlemen, named Sir Thomas... ...mere pay without much caring for the cause); but those of the nobility and gentry who were on the King’s side were so brave, and so faithful to him, t... ... gland; so it went on as far as Worcester, where the mayor and some of the gentry proclaimed King Charles the Second A Child’s Histroy of England 390... ..., as his justification for having come at all. At this crisis, some of the gentry joined him; the Royal army began to falter; an engagement was signed...

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... good reputation as any on the road, and though I say it, is frequented by gentry of the best quality, both Irish and English. I defy anybody to say b... ...oon have burnt my fingers as have affronted your ladyship; but truly where gentry come and spend their money, I am not willing that they should be sca... ... own sex; for surely he had no strict title to be preferred to the English gentry; nor did they seem inclined to show him any extraordinary favour. Th... ...discoun tenance all walking afoot by their betters. Luckily, however, the gentry who attend at the Opera house were too busy to quit their stations, ...

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...Inn. And, III. Lincoln’s Inn. In these colleges numbers of young nobility, gentry, and oth- ers, are educated, and chiefly in the study of physic, for... ... give the wall as the place of honour; hawking is the general sport of the gentry; they are more polite in eating than the French, devouring less brea... ... sol- diers, for we have many instances of the sallies of the nobility and gentry; yea, and of the Court and her privy favourites, that had any touch ... ...ve several armies. They were the French scholars that inured the youth and gentry of the kingdom, and it was a militia, where they were daily in acqua... ...d; and he was of a very ancient descent, as an heir to many sub- tracts of gentry, especially from Guy de Brain of Lawhorn; so was he of a very vast e... ...espised his jury, though of the Order of Knight- hood, and of the especial gentry, claiming the privilege of trial by the peers and baronage of the re...

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...… . I see! But it’s a pity you are a drunkard… .’ I know how to manage the gentry, old girl. There isn’ t a gentleman I couldn’ t talk to. Only God gr... ...e gone to tea, your honor.” On the right was the parlor, the travelers’ or gentry’ s room; on the left the kitchen, with a big stove and sleeping shel... ...o the rural captain, to the tax inspector, to the municipal office, to the gentry, to the peasants, to all orthodox Christians. I carry parcels, notic... ...ite lackeys, in ease and com- fort in the company of the young ladies. The gentry, to fill up their idle time, had taught her to read, to write, to da... ...?” I kept asking myself. “Where does he come from?” I knew all the country gentry for twenty or thirty miles round, and knew all their dogs. Not one o... ...have dropped behind someone passing through, for there was nowhere for the gentry to drive to along that road. I sat down on a stump to rest, and bega... ...erved, too, a pie with onion and steamed turnip with kvass. “How is it the gentry don’t burst with such meals?” he thought. In conclusion they handed ...

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...o clear the rooms for the visitors and arranged about refreshments for the gentry and the serfs, went about among the mummers without remov- ing her s... ...an country dances and chorus dances, Pelageya Danilovna made the serfs and gentry join in one large circle: a ring, a string, and a silver ruble were ...