7 sentences with 'landless'
Example sentences and phrases with the word landless and other words derived from it.
• « Many of the crusaders were minor lords or landless knights, men who had few prospects at home but who now had the opportunity to make something of themselves in the name of liberating the Holy Land. Thus, most crusaders combined ambition and greed with genuine Christian piety. »
• « The Third Estate was simply everyone else, from wealthy bankers and untitled merchants to the urban poor and landless peasants. »
• « Many peasant families who had once owned small plots of their own had to sell them to wealthy nobles and became landless agricultural labourers, one step removed from the truly destitute who fled to the cities in search of work or church charity. »
• « While the large British population of landless rural labourers and poor peasants had no choice but to seek work in the factories, most French peasants were independent farmers who had no interest in going to the cities to work in miserable conditions. »
• « He believed that urban life widened the gap between a wealthy few and an underclass of landless working poor who, because of their downtrodden status, could never be good Republican landowners. Rural areas, by contrast, offered far greater opportunities for property and virtue. »
• « Below the wealthy planters were the yeoman peasants, or small landowners. Below the yeomen were the poor landless whites, who constituted the majority of whites in the South. »
• « These landless whites dreamed of owning land and slaves and served as overseers, drivers and slave traders in the southern economy. »