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I'm outta here, what would the affect to SL be, compared to a newbie land-holder?
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As under the old set-up, the eldest son alone will succeed to the occupational rights of the original land-holder, but now other children will be condemned to life in the settlements.
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Robinson Crusoe, on his lonely island, was a capitalist as well as a laborer and a land-holder.
Choice Specimens of American Literature, and Literary Reader Being Selections from the Chief American Writers Benj. N. Martin
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Providence, made me acquainted with a land-holder in Angermania, named
International Miscellany of Literature, Art and Science, Vol. 1, No. 3, Oct. 1, 1850 Various
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A rich land-holder will have his rice fields, sugar mill, vino factory, and cocoanut and hemp plantations.
A Woman's Impression of the Philippines Mary Helen Fee
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Thus Mr. Gallatin, thirteen years a resident of the country, a large land-holder in
Albert Gallatin American Statesmen Series, Vol. XIII John Austin Stevens
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"Well, is the deed done?" the lady asked with the complacent air of a land-holder.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 12, No. 32, November, 1873 Various
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Some months ago a white land-holder in Montgomery County asked Mr. Carver to go through his farm with him for the purpose of inspecting it.
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Furstenheimer appeared to have only the interests of a small land-holder, and gossiped about his farm, his horses and prices.
Villa Elsa A Story of German Family Life Stuart Oliver Henry 1906
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Suppose now that taxes had been levied on labor products instead of land; all that any land-holder would have to do to avoid the tax is to produce little or nothing.
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