land-holder
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The owner thereby becomes a small parody of the land-holder, the cattle baron.
From Time Magazine Archive
I procured a locksmith to fit the door with a practically impregnable latch lock, and with the key upon my chain, I felt as proud as the most bloated land-holder in Westminster.
From First Person Paramount by Ambrose Pratt
In that fund the State, according to Rabourdin, became a stockholder, just as it persisted in being a land-holder and a manufacturer.
From Bureaucracy by Katharine Prescott Wormeley
"Well, is the deed done?" the lady asked with the complacent air of a land-holder.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 12, No. 32, November, 1873 by Various
Robinson Crusoe, on his lonely island, was a capitalist as well as a laborer and a land-holder.
From Choice Specimens of American Literature, and Literary Reader Being Selections from the Chief American Writers by Benj. N. Martin
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