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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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...fably sad. I saw Erik as being part of the same social class as any landed gentry. His investments meant that he need not keep an office in someo...

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... OF THE PARTHIANS ARMES. T is a vitious, fond, fashion of the Nobility and Gentry of our age, and full of nice-tendernesse, never to betake themselve...

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...ublic affairs pervading so many social strata; but the indifference of the gentry is a fact not to be lightly considered. It may be objected, 28 The ... ...dered. It may be objected, 28 The Point of View indeed, that there are no gentry; and it is very true that I have not yet encountered a character of ...

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...ur personal safety. Black-fishers, poach- ers, and smugglers are a sort of gentry that will not be much checked, either by your Quaker’s texts, or by ... ...ssed, he deliv- ered to James with directions to dismiss the particoloured gentry, who, in the meanwhile, had consumed a gallon of twopenny ale, while... ...arms. ‘“One day, Nixon,” whispered my uncle, “we will make these redcoated gentry stand to their muskets more watch- fully.” ‘“Or it will be the worse... ...aordinary and con- trasted scenes; now lodging at the castles of the proud gentry of Cheshire and Wales, where the retired aristocrats, with opinions ... ...him af- fect an open brow and a jovial manner, joining in the games of the gentry, and even in the sports of the common people, in order to invest him... ...e made evidently a strong impres- sion,—’you may temporize, as most of the gentry in this country do, and let the bubble burst of itself; for it is si... ...Nanty Ewart. I will make a man of you for life!’ ‘Oh ho! then the Jacobite gentry are not so safe as they think themselves?’ said Nanty. ‘In an hour o...

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...hat was his, were the oldest and best; and as he never associated with any gentry higher than himself, his opinion was not dis- turbed by comparison. ...

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... Never mind. Don’t tell her what you told me. Go on the Peerage and Landed-Gentry tack. G. She’d see through it. She’s five times cleverer than I am. ...

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...Wessex. In returning from market it is usual for the farmers and other gig gentry to alight at the bottom and walk up. One Saturday evening in the mon...

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... naked to a tree and double the tale of lashes on me. These tender-hearted gentry should consider that it’s not merely a squire, but a governor they a...

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...y times her aunt had been called upon to sit with recently bereaved ladies. It was gentry’s obligation to one another — although Roston society wou... ...y’s obligation to one another — although Roston society would never consider Hannah gentry. “Where’s Hannah now?” “I just left her at Cotton ... ...what Royce had said not long ago when she’d become restless. “What turns Southern gentry like you into eccentrics and lunatics is your old houses, ... ... a gift, but they still snubbed Hannah. People held it against her that she wasn’t gentry. You take someone like Johnelle Pittiford. Nobody could... ... He pointed a finger at her, then apparently re-thought how far he could go with gentry. He lowered his hand and looked around the room before h...

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...ord, Dade, Dallas, Daviess, DeKalb, Dent, Douglas, Dunklin, Franklin, Gasconade, Gentry, Greene, Grundy, Harrison, Henry, Hickory, Holt, Howard, How...

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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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...operty rights and privileges of a small elite class of wealthy, landed English Gentry living in America. The Constitution of the United States is a ... ... no difference what names you assign to the players: pharaohs, kings, nobles, gentry, astronauts, bankers, billionaires, landowners, executives, sto... ...more wealth for anyone? No. During the War of Independence; American landed gentry had managed to screw the American farmers and lower classes out... ... ever since? Credit cards ring a bell, eh? Basically. The American landed Gentry had become so corrupt.that they were actively engaged in cheatin... ...ical fact exposes the incredible level of corruption which the American landed gentry had developed before the war ever started. They used the war: ... ... The English Lords who tried to rule and them from afar? Or their own landed gentry who tried to steal their farms and homes while they were off at ... ...r proven? Because this would have inadvertently revealed how all the richest gentry and authorities of the English seacoast were guilty as sin of pr... ...e in power in England? The most venal, ossified, incompetent, stupid, landed gentry and nobility. Who was in power in America? Political bosses s... ...asants. After that: people began to openly show disrespect for their landed gentry and nobles. If they had done that before Luther: they would h...

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...the hill there. The parsonage here’s a tumble-down place, sir, not fit for gentry to live in. He comes here to preach of a Sunday afternoon, sir, an’ ... ... tell by my tongue, sir. They’re cur’ous talkers i’ this country, sir; the gentry’s hard work to hunderstand ‘em. I was brought hup among the gentry, ... ...as a bye. Why, what do you think the folks here says for ‘hevn’t you?’—the gentry, you know, says, ‘hevn’t you’—well, the people about here says ‘hann... ...ay, an’ lift a matter o’ sixty ston’. He’s an un- common favourite wi’ the gentry, sir: Captain Donnithorne and Parson Irwine meks a fine fuss wi’ him... ...ays the keenest of bucolic minds felt a whispering awe at the sight of the gentry, such as of old men felt when they stood on tiptoe to watch the gods... ...man to the farmers, and th’ old women, and the labourers, as he did to the gentry. Y ou never saw HIM interfering and scolding, and trying to play th’... ...seen, considered Adam “rather lifted up and peppery- like”: he thought the gentry made more fuss about this young carpenter than was necessary; they m... ...e, was invited to-day; there was to be a grand dinner for the neighbouring gentry on the morrow, but to-day all the forces were required for the enter... ...n to be understood that Wiry Ben proposed to amuse the company, before the gentry went to dinner, with an impromptu and gratuitous performance— namely...

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...places. A great many pri vate chairs are also kept among the nobility and gentry; and at night these are trotted to and fro in all directions, pre c... ...elsewhere, of more repulsive countenances than are to be found among these gentry. If Nature’s handwriting be at all legible, greater varieties of slo... ...many towns far less important in themselves. The Corso, where the Milanese gentry ride up and down in carriages, and rather than not do which, they wo... ...tle. Ragged lazzaroni lie asleep in doorways, archways, and ken nels; the gentry, gaily dressed, are dashing up and down in carriages on the Chiaji, ...

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...he followed encroached, in their opinion, upon the article of Ellangowan’s gentry, and he found it necessary gradually to estrange him- self from thei... ... or any similar occasion, when they conceived themselves, oppressed by the gentry, they were in the habit of saying to each other, “Ah, if Ellangowan,... ...ogue, using the cant language of her tribe—”Cut ben Whids, and stow them—a gentry cove of the ken.” [* Meaning a Stop your uncivil tongue—that is a ge... ...t- land. Almost all the common people were engaged in these practices; the gentry connived at them, and the officers of the revenue were frequently di... ...purpose to which it was destined by the bestower. Many of the neighbouring gentry were now sincerely ea- ger in pressing offers of hospitality and kin... ...d, and there was nae milling in the darkmans. [Mur- der by night.] And the gentry had kind hearts, and would have given baith lap and pannel [Liquor a... ... he could not but be sensible that he was excluded from the society of the gentry of the county, to whose rank he conceived he had raised himself. He ... ...oes.” “Ay, ‘deed is’t, Deacon,” answered the landlady and yet I wonder our gentry leave their ain wark to the like o’ him. — But as lang as silver’s c... ...l only replied with a nod, feeling the propriety of asserting his superior gentry in presence of Mr. Pleydell and Colonel Mannering. “V ery queer if t...

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...tainly a gentleman, thereto Clerk like experienced, which no less adorns Our gentry than our parents’ noble names, In whose success we are gentle,—I b...

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...and from the custom, in each empire, to send their young nobility and richer gentry to the other, in order to pol ish themselves by seeing the world,... ...for cordials.” He observed, “that among the diversions of our no bility and gentry, I had mentioned gaming: he desired to know at what age this enter... ... ies, and farmers in the country, whose commanders are only the nobility and gentry, without pay or reward. They are indeed perfect enough in their ex... ...part of life, without innovation: that some few other persons of quality and gentry had done the same, but were looked on with an eye of contempt and ...

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...en a sacrifice,” said the Warden, “to the old preference which our English gentry have inherited from their Norman ancestry, of game to man. You had c... ...d views of ruined castles, churches, cathedrals, the seats of nobility and gentry; Roman, British, and Saxon remains, painted windows, oak carvings, a... ...ithwaite Hospital, once a year, to give a grand dinner to the nobility and gentry of the neighborhood; and to this end a bequest had been made by one ... ...thor’s note .— “The dinner is given to the pension ers, as well as to the gentry, I think.” Note 2. Author’s note .— “For example, a story of three b...

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...1 Second Lord: It well may serve A nursery to our gentry, who are sick For breathing and exploit. KING: ...