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[21.1] A bouman is a tenant who takes stock from the landlord and shares with him the increase.
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* A bouman is a tenant who takes stock from the landlord and shares with him the increase.
Kidnapped Robert Louis Stevenson 1872
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Posted September 28, 2004 7: 26 AM mathijs bouman writes: higher fixed production costs translate into higher prices. (e.g. the sometimes surreal policy debate just after the European autioning of UMTS-licences)
Economic Illiteracy, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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But the bouman, after feeling about in a hairy purse that hung in front of him in the Highland manner (though he wore otherwise the Lowland habit, with sea-trousers), began to roll his eyes strangely, and at last said, "Her nainsel will loss it," meaning he thought he had lost it.
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Perhaps the bouman was honest enough; perhaps he had meant to cheat and then, finding himself alone with two of us in a desert place, cast back to honesty as being safer; at least, and all at once, he seemed to find that button and handed it to Alan.
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This he intrusted to the bouman, who promised to make what manner of speed he best could, and carried it off with him down the hill.
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He was three full days gone, but about five in the evening of the third, we heard a whistling in the wood, which Alan answered; and presently the bouman came up the water-side, looking for us, right and left.
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This was all as bad as could be; and the little note the bouman had carried us from Mrs. Stewart was of a miserable sadness.
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I thought of it all the more, too, when the bouman brought out a green purse with four guineas in gold, and the best part of another in small change.
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Lastly, the bouman took himself off by one way; and Alan I (getting our chattels together) struck into another to resume our flight.
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