copyholder
Example Sentences
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I feel what I owe you, and, independently of this, I love you as a friend,—indeed so much that I regret, seriously regret, that you have been my copyholder.
From Biographia Epistolaris, Volume 1. by Turnbull, A.
He must, I think, himself have been a copyholder in his day, so feelingly does he deal with the detriments of a champion-holding.
From In a Green Shade A Country Commentary by Hewlett, Maurice Henry
He drove a delivery wagon for a grocer, ushered at a theater, was even a copyholder in the proofroom of a newspaper.
From The Vision Splendid by Raine, William MacLeod
The last was practically the counterpart of the mediæval English copyholder.
From German Culture Past and Present by Bax, Ernest Belfort
I feel what I owe you, and independently of this, I love you as a friend; indeed, so much, that I regret, seriously regret, that you have been my copyholder.
From Reminiscences of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey by Cottle, Joseph
