land-holder
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The owner thereby becomes a small parody of the land-holder, the cattle baron.
From Time Magazine Archive
It made him a sort of a land-holder on the spot, and one who had nothing to pay for ten years to come.
From Satanstoe by Cooper, James Fenimore
Why, when he was only sixteen years old he and another boy went far back into the wild country of Virginia to survey or measure the lands there for a rich land-holder.
From The Story of Our Country Every Child Can Read by Hurlbut, Jesse Lyman
"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
On being sworn, he deposed as follows: 'My name is Herbert Jeffreys, I am a land-holder and grazier, residing at Restdown, which is distant about one hundred and twenty miles from Ballarat.
From Nevermore by Bolderwood, Rolf
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