land-steward

Then the land-steward tried with no better success.

A Woman of Thirty 2007

The estate, considerable though it was, had been left in charge of a land-steward and the house to the old servants.

A Woman of Thirty 2007

In old times there were bailiffs to look after the workfolk, foremen to look after the tradesmen, a building-steward to look after the foremen, a land-steward to look after the building-steward, and a dashing grand agent to look after the land-steward: fine times they had then, I assure ye.

The Hand of Ethelberta 2006

And so he made his exit, as Wardlaw the land-steward made his appearance.

Rob Roy 2005

Wishing to be alone, till I recovered myself from the first painful sensations which everything around me recalled, I desired old Syddall to call the land-steward, who lived at about a quarter of a mile from the

Rob Roy 2005

He had been on a railway, had been a land-steward, and had started factories, and he talked, quite without necessity, of all he had done, and used learned expressions quite inappropriately.

Anna Karenina 2003

On a journey in the north, his comrades proposed that he should dress himself (and he did so to some purpose), and call on a gentleman, a large owner of fine stock, but whose land-steward and the cattle were some forty miles distant from the manor-house.

Cattle and Cattle-breeders William M'Combie

A gentleman's land-steward came through the lot of cattle with a milk-white horse, and his eyes looked first to the right and then to the left with wonderful quickness.

Cattle and Cattle-breeders William M'Combie

Mr Milner did so; was well received and hospitably entertained; and at parting the gentleman gave him a letter to his land-steward, with instructions as to the sale of his stock.

Cattle and Cattle-breeders William M'Combie

In 1790, his father removed to Dalswinton, in the capacity of land-steward to Mr

The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume III The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century Various