rack-renters

Cromwellians, and the -- I mean the rack-renters. '

Muslin 1892

The Protestants, in defeating the rack-renters 'anti-Repeal meeting, showed they began to see their interest.

Thomas Davis, Selections from his Prose and Poetry Thomas Osborne Davis 1829

The consequences of this were the impoverishment of his estates and their eventual management by rack-renters.

The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. - Volume 07 Historical and Political Tracts-Irish Jonathan Swift 1706

These rack-renters, whose only interest lay in squeezing money out of the impoverished tenants, became the bane of the agricultural holder.

The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. - Volume 07 Historical and Political Tracts-Irish Jonathan Swift 1706

Families who have bought their estates on the faith of Government sales and Government contracts, and families who have owned theirs for centuries and lived on them, winter and summer -- who have been neither absentees nor rack-renters, but have been friendly, hospitable, open-handed after their kind, always ready to give comforts and medicine to the sick and a good-natured measure of relief to the hard pressed -- they have now been brought to the ground; and between our own fluid and unstable legislation and the reckless cruelty of the Plan of

About Ireland 1860

a virile campaign against rack-renters, grazing monopolists and land-grabbers such as would convince the Government in a single winter how grossly they had under-estimated the requirements of the country.

Ireland Since Parnell 1910

Ireland more injury at the present time than all the rack-renters put together. "

About Ireland 1860