Example Sentences

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But he is only just and fair, which, in the ethics of Irish agrarianism, is equivalent to being a rack-renter and a tyrant.

From The Reminiscences of an Irish Land Agent by Gordon, Home, Sir, Bart.

He was a rack-renter of the first water.

From The Poor Scholar Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three by Carleton, William