large-acred

These are but specimens of the large-acred men of Illinois.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 43, May, 1861 Creator Various

London, on the contrary, people laugh at the idea of a man pluming himself upon such distinctions without a difference: in town we have baronets of all sorts -- the "Heathcotes, and such large-acred men," Sir

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 328, February, 1843 Various

The elder of these two gentlemen is Mr. Carr Vipont, bald, with clipped parliamentary whiskers; values himself on a likeness to Canning, but with a portlier presence; looks a large-acred man.

What Will He Do with It? — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

There are Smiths who are millionaires; Smiths who are large-acred squires; substantial baronets; peers of England, and pillars of the State.

What Will He Do with It? — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

This ominous and horrid member of parliament, Squire Hazeldean's favourite county member, Sir John, was one of those legislators especially odious to officials, -- an independent "large-acred" member, who would no more take office himself than he would cut down the oaks in his park, and who had no bowels of human feeling for those who had opposite tastes and less magnificent means.

My Novel — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

This ominous and horrid member of parliament, Squire Hazeldean's favourite county member, Sir John, was one of those legislators especially odious to officials, -- an independent "large-acred" member, who would no more take office himself than he would cut down the oaks in his park, and who had no bowels of human feeling for those who had opposite tastes and less magnificent means.

My Novel — Volume 09 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

There are Smiths who are millionaires; Smiths who are large-acred squires; substantial baronets; peers of England, and pillars of the

What Will He Do with It? — Volume 04 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

What you call a sacrifice, is none at all; I love England, but am not obstinately chain'd down to any spot of earth; nature has charms every where for a man willing to be pleased: at my time of life, the very change of place is amusing; love of variety, and the natural restlessness of man, would give me a relish for this voyage, even if I did not expect, what I really do, to become lord of a principality which will put our large-acred men in England out of countenance.

The History of Emily Montague 1769

If ever I live to be a large-acred man instead of a poor devil with a mortgaged allowance of pocket-money, I’ll have Adam for my right hand.

Adam Bede 2004

What you call a sacrifice, is none at all; I love England, but am not obstinately chain'd down to any spot of earth; nature has charms every where for a man willing to be pleased: at my time of life, the very change of place is amusing; love of variety, and the natural restlessness of man, would give me a relish for this voyage, even if I did not expect, what I really do, to become lord of a principality which will put our large-acred men in England out of countenance.

The History of Emily Montague Frances Brooke 1756