tythe
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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They do not act as menial servants, and obey the caprice of a master; nor do they work as labourers for a tythe of the advantages of their industry.
From A Morning's Walk from London to Kew by Phillips, Richard
To the lover of architecture, or mediæval history, the greatest interest will attach to the large tythe barn which we come to on emerging into the field from the further side of the churchyard.
From Evesham by New, E. H. (Edmund Hort)
There is no farmer who does not compute before hand what the church tythe, which is a land tax of this kind, is, one year with another, likely to amount to.
From An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Garnier, Germain
There is no farmer who does not compute beforehand what the church tythe, which is a land tax of this kind, is, one year with another, likely to amount to.
From An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Smith, Adam
The tythe in the greater part of those parishes which pay what is called a modus, in lieu of all other tythe is a tax of this kind.
From An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Smith, Adam
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