land-holder
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The owner thereby becomes a small parody of the land-holder, the cattle baron.
From Time Magazine Archive
He is influential and respected because he is a great land-holder with a high official position, and belongs by birth to that group of families which forms the permanent nucleus of the ever-changing Court society.
From Russia by Wallace, Donald Mackenzie, Sir
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 Pratt, Ambrose
Suppose now that taxes had been levied on labor products instead of land; all that any land-holder would have to do to avoid the tax is to produce little or nothing.
From Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 10 by Brann, William Cowper
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
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