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How to use demesnes in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word demesnes? Here are some examples.

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No matter how intense work was in small demesnes, the level of productivity failed to increase.
There were recurrent scutages and tallages on demesnes, which included boroughs.
Ancient rusting gates invite you up leafy avenues to romantic lost demesnes, ivy-clad ruins and mouldering monuments.
The society has had a considerable input into the various road plans and bypasses where they affect historic properties or important demesnes.
The Reich, too, possessed demesnes in the east, notably the Egerland, Vogtland, and Pleissnerland in the Thuringian march.
Marc Bloch observed long ago that labor services peasants owed lords and the size of demesnes dwindled between the eleventh and thirteenth centuries.
Whether lords had demesnes and servile tenants or not, the association between landlordship and power remained close.
In those early times the king's household was supported by specific renders of corn and other victuals from the tenants of the demesnes.
Examples from Classical Literature
There was a wall that, bounding the demesnes of the school, ran for some short distance into the main street.
It was night when Jasper once more reached the moss-grown pales round the demesnes of the old Manor-house.
Most monastic houses had fishing rights attached to their demesnes, or kept their own fish-pond or stew.
He collects in paternal fashion the revenues of his Grand Ducal demesnes, and no power has any right to ask any questions.
As soon as he entered his demesnes, he saw his wife's daughter running across the lawn to greet him.
She had no Relation to manage her demesnes, and could hardly be said to be possessed of any thing.
And when he saw that, he let chase her out of this land, and betook it me, and all this land in my demesnes.
A tallage on royal towns and demesnes, nevertheless, was set without authority of parliament four years afterwards.
There was an appearance of respectability and opulence about all the demesnes.
Fosters of the fe, i. 175, foresters of the king's demesnes.
Each principal vassal was a kind of sovereign, within his particular demesnes.
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