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During her life with Lady Henry she had saved the whole of her own small rentes.

From Lady Rose's Daughter by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.

Reckoned in terms of present-day rentals, the cens et rentes amounted to half a dozen chickens or a bushel of grain for each fifty or sixty acres of land.

From Crusaders of New France A Chronicle of the Fleur-de-Lis in the Wilderness Chronicles of America, Volume 4 by Munro, William Bennett

Then he issued all known varieties of promises to pay, from rentes perp�tuelles to treasury-notes of a few francs, payable on demand.

From Caricature and Other Comic Art in all Times and many Lands. by Parton, James

Therefore, since I was at hand, and would be a wealthy man some day, and indeed even now did very well on my French rentes, he had set his heart on this.

From Oddsfish! by Benson, Robert Hugh

This is because rentes are supposed to be perpetual.

From The War After the War by Marcosson, Isaac Frederick