Lord example sentences

Therefore, as far as the peasants were concerned, the planters had behaved as lords above the law.One peasant who lost his rights to common land after the enclosures wrote to the local lord: 'Should a poor man take one of your sheep from the common, his life would be forfeited by law.It was difficult for them to pay rent to the landlord or to buy food and clothing.Those who resisted, engaged lawyers; the landlords hired thugs.If he knew its meaning — lord of the universe — he would have a hard time believing it.The whole area throbbed with the activity of the investigators and the vehement protests of the landlords.This novel shows a young man from an 'untouchable' caste, leaving his village to escape the cruelty of his Brahmin landlord.Suri Nambuthiri, the foolish landlord who comes to marry Indulekha, is the focus of much satire in the novel.Meanwhile, the villagers, thinking that the landlord's men had killed him, file a case.The commission consisted of landlords, government officials, and Gandhi as the sole representative of the peasants.The landlords compelled all tenants to plant three twentieths or 15 per cent of their holdings with indigo and surrender the entire indigo harvest as rent.The landlords, the rich and the Church opposed his policies.Kings, queens, peasants, landlords, tribals, soldiers were all affected in different ways.Now, supposing a landlord, Sukhram, comes and hires one or two members of the family to work on his land.They created a new state by suppressing the older political system of the bhuiyans (landlords).