tithe

• The tiny boats that came downriver were the church's only tithe, and not a scrap of it went to waste. —  InterzoneScienceFictionandFantasyMagazine#212
• People have long understood that to tithe is to pay a tenth of one's income. —  The Real Truth
• The Meetkerkes descended from a famous Dutchman, Sir Adolphus Meetkerke, who was at one time ambassador to England 124 Before the Tithe Commutation Act was passed, a very curious piece of work in the harvest field was the paying of the parson by the tithe man going round among the shocks of corn and placing a green bough in every tenth shock, &c.;, for then the tithe was collected in kind--the tenth shock, hay-cock, calf, lamb, pig, fowl, pigeon, duck, egg, the tenth pound of butter, cheese, and so on through all the products of the land. —  Fragments of Two Centuries Glimpses of Country Life when George III. was King
• Sir Robert Peel suggested that a commission should be appointed to ascertain the entire amount of the tithe, and the nature of each particular case; and that in proportion to that amount, and with due regard to individual circumstances, the sum remaining of the million not yet advanced should be distributed among the respective tithe-owners in purchase of their interests. —  The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. From George III. to Victoria
• There were great disputes as to collecting the tithe, always a sore subject, on turnips; and the custom seems to have been that if they were eaten off by store sheep they went tithe free, if sheep were fattened on them the tithe was paid. —  A Short History of English Agriculture

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