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Example sentences for: landowner

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Most readers of VERBATIM would, I am sure, have been as intrigued as I was to discover that a yeoman is “an English landowner often having municipal functions”; that in tennis a ball is net “when it touches the top of the summit [ sic ] of the net separating the two sides”; that a starting block has “compartments in which race-horses are put before the off so they can all leave simultaneously”; and that brick is the English for “a sailing-ship with two masts” --taking part, maybe, in a lofing match: “in a sailing-boat regatta, the action of one of the participants consisting in an attempt to bring one of his rivals head to the wind.”
These permanent tenants paid rent to the landowner and made all the important decisions about the use of the land.
The Gupta dynasty, founded by the obscure Bihari landowner Chandra Gupta I, rose to power during the fourth century a.d.
Finding his woods "infested" with an endangered species, the red-cockaded woodpecker, a North Carolina landowner launched a preemptive strike.
Yet even this angry landowner wound up living happily ever after with the Endangered Species Act.