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How to use tenantry in a sentence

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

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The onerous task of distributing seed potatoes to the tenantry on the Sligo estate has just been completed.
At the time of the famine, he made valiant efforts to stop his tenantry starving.
This transferred more holdings to the tenantry than any previous Land Act had done.
He transplanted much of his tenantry to found a dairy farm in 1842, only to return home, ruined, in the following year.
He could have made a profit in such an economy, as opposed to looking for a rent increase of 70 per cent from the long suffering tenantry.
He raised a fine regiment of foot soldiers from his hardy Cornish tenantry.
Most of the tenantry chose to pay the rent rather than face being served with ejectment writs.
The onerous task of distributing seed potatoes to the tenantry has just been completed.
They actively discouraged emigration, fearing the loss of their workforce and tenantry.
The first of these stallions was kept for the benefit of the tenantry, who were granted its use free of charge.
The duke's wealth was squeezed from rents and extracted from a starving tenantry.
There were precedents in most agrarian societies for wage labor and tenantry.
Some areas of land and estates became more highly colonised by tenantry than others.
Except on the Ulster plantations, the tenantry was relatively poor in comparison with that of England and employed inferior agricultural methods.
As a gentleman farmer, I must see that the estate is properly managed and that our tenantry is both content and productive.
The landlords have never been castigated for ousting their tenantry.
In addition to professional retainers a lord could find men amongst his tenantry.
It is now in the hands, like Britain itself, of a spendthrift, headstrong eldest son who indulges one fad after another and is treated with the respect his pretensions deserve by the older tenantry.
The walls were never painted during my tenantry, becoming dingier and dingier as the years went by.
Examples from Classical Literature
He had seen no Irishman of rank ever bestow a moment's attention on his tenantry.
That door had been opened but once during the late pastor's thirty-year tenantry.
The tenantry are mostly Nationalist, if they can be said to be anything at all.
Don't he be payin' the tenantry an' sayin' where is the trees to be felled?
But, above all things, the curse of a tenantry is a percentage agent.
The tenantry of the Texford property followed on horseback or foot.
Proceeding to the tenantry, the first in order happened to be Farmer Toft.
He saw the people a race of tenantry, dependent on their lords.
The guest reclined, inert, upon a chair, while the room, confused in speech as though it were an apartment in Babel, tried to discourse to him of its divers tenantry.
He made little treats and teas for him, as if he came in with his homage from some outlying district where the tenantry were in a primitive state.
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