"'Your Majesty will graciously pardon: there was an investigation gone into, and it was found that I had not oppressed the tenants, but had always gone upon my right, and merely held them to do their duty. Nevertheless the matter stood as it was: the tenants are not punished; your Majesty puts always the tenants in the right, the poor Beamte is always in the wrong!'英文原著 · 《Appendix to History of Friedrich II of Prussia》
One instance may suffice. In Sawston (Rot. 575-80) are three manors, A, B, C; A has a sub-manor. One Thomas Dovenel holds in villeinage of the lord of A; in villeinage of the lord of B; in freehold of the lord of B; in freehold of a tenant of the lord of B; in freehold of a tenant of a tenant of the lord of B.英文原著 · 《Domesday Book and Beyond》
GLOSSARY 17. DRIVER.--A man who is employed to drive tenants for rent; that is, to drive the cattle belonging to tenants to pound. The office of driver is by no means a sinecure.英文原著 · 《Castle Rackrent》
General Wade, in his report to the King in 1725, stated that the Seaforth tenants, formerly reputed the richest of any in the Highlands, were now become poor, by neglecting their business, and applying themselves to the use of arms, "The rents" he says, "continue to be collected by one Donald Murchison, a servant of the late Earl's, who annually remits or carries the same to his master in France. The tenants, when in a condition, are said to have sent him free gifts in proportion to their circumstances, but are now a year and a-half in arrear of rent.英文原著 · 《History Of The Mackenzies》
They were going to do away with the squatter in appearance, but he would still survive as a labour tenant. They might do away with the labour tenant, and he would still be surviving as a labour servant. How was the Government to distinguish between these? They had in the Cape a law which stated how many labour tenants a man should have upon his farm.英文原著 · 《Native Life in South Africa》
The Magistrate who so ruthlessly ejected these and other native families acted under the orders of the Government, who settled white people on the farms at the expense of a Treasury maintained also by native taxpayers. And it seems difficult to conceive how a Government which proved so indifferent regarding the fate of its own native tenants or of tenants on farms freshly acquired at the public expense, could be solicitous about the welfare of Natives evicted by private landowners. The statement, on the face of it, is incongruous.英文原著 · 《Native Life in South Africa》
Leonard and Penny are trying to turn the tenants against me, So they are about to see just what kind of power The president of the tenants association wields.美剧 · 《The Big Bang Theory》
collection agencies and the landlord, looking for the original tenant whose name is on the lease!美剧 · 《2 Broke Girls》
But I wouldn't want to be the next tenants who have to figure out why a pissed off horse美剧 · 《2 Broke Girls》
What do you know about the tenant who lives in the apartment directly above you?美剧 · 《2 Broke Girls》