Sentences with 'landlords'
Example sentences and phrases with the word landlords and other words derived from it.
• « There were never more than 8,000 Spartan soldiers, along with another 20,000 or so free non-citizens (inhabitants of cities near Sparta who were not considered to be landlords, but free but subservient subjects), overseeing a much larger population of landlords. »
• « The peasants were divided into different categories, including the relatively well-off independents and landlords who owned their own plots of land, to the serfs, the semi-free peasants tied to the land, and then the landless peasants, who were even worse off than the serfs. »
• « Town landlords took advantage of the influx of workers and their families by building cheap housing in which several families often lived in one room. »
• « Many fled the cities for the countryside, peasants took land from the landlords and soldiers deserted en masse; by 1917, 75% of the soldiers sent to the front against Germany had deserted. »