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Reed might be at that time some six or seven and thirty; she was a woman of robust frame, square-shouldered and strong-limbed, not tall, and, though stout, not obese: she had a somewhat large face, the under jaw being much developed and very solid; her brow was low, her chin large and prominent, mouth and nose sufficiently regular; under her light eyebrows glimmered an eye devoid of ruth; her skin was dark and opaque, her hair nearly flaxen; her constitution was sound as a bell--illness never came near her; she was an exact, clever manager; her household and tenantry were thoroughly under her control; her children only at times defied her authority and laughed it to scorn; she dressed well, and had a presence and port calculated to set off handsome attire.

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.

She had been alone and lying in bed at Bartlett's Tenantry, Sargeant's Village when the horrific incident took place at around 2pm,MirrorOnline reports.

There are items, including a sword, from the Percy Tenantry Volunteer Infantry, and books, photographs, hand bills, posters and documents relating to Alnwick, plus paintings and furniture.

The 'young laird's' 21st birthday was marked by a gathering of relatives, tenantry, merchants and tradesmen at his family's baronial mansion, Auchinbowie House.

An 1886 magazine report stated: "In the middle of January 1886, the Earl Shrewsbury entertained his tenantry and other guests at Ingestre Hall in celebration of its restoration.

Another sees in the ecclesiastical landscape the history of England itself: "Platonic England grasps its tenantry / where wild-eyed poppies raddle tawny farms / and wild swans root in lily-clouded lakes" (Hill).

Where Kelly dedicates his volume to the various ranks of his countrymen in their hierarchical order, from James, Duke of Hamilton to the nobility, the gentry, and the commonalty, Ramsay's is also more populist: 'To the Tenantry of Scotland, Farmers of the Dales, and Storemasters of the Hills'.

The commission held several public hearings, studied over thirty privately developed farm colonies throughout the state, and amassed statistics on farm operating costs, farm tenantry, and the racial composition of farm tenants in California.

a minority of the tenantry during the First half of the 19th century was

where tenantry is unfavorable to freedom and independence of the

as a uniformly servile tenantry evolved by the early part of the sixth century" (118).

These date from the early nineteenth century, being at first an expression of landlord interest in promoting improved farming techniques among their tenantry, but nowadays driven by farmers themselves.