commonage
Example Sentences
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His pony was only grazing on the town commonage hard by; he could have him brought in less than half an hour.
From A Veldt Official A Novel of Circumstance by Bertram Mitford
The whole baronetage, peerage, and commonage of England did not contain a more cunning, mean, foolish, disreputable old rogue than Sir Pitt Crawley.
From Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer
The estate of Asbies contained fifty acres of arable land, six of meadow, and a right of commonage.
From Biographical Essays by Thomas De Quincey
No parcelling out of the land forbids him to improve to the least advantage the portion he possesses, and no right of commonage, belonging to many, prevents each from deriving profit from his share.
From The Empire of the East by H. B. (Helen Barrett) Montgomery
The rights of men are liberty and an equal participation in the commonage of nature.”
From The Radicalism of Shelley and Its Sources by Daniel J. MacDonald
