proprietors

They followed the well-known road of the Volga, cherished the error of the nations who confounded them with the Avars, and spread the terror of that false though famous appellation, which had not, however, saved its lawful proprietors from the yoke of the Turks.

The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206

Maxwell Hyslop, who acted as an agent for plantation proprietors, is one of the persons to whom Bolívar wrote for money. [

London-Kingston-Caracas: The Transatlantic 2006

Ms. LESLIE FEIST (Broken Social Scene): There's the brothel upstairs, there's the booze behind the counter, and it's being run by -- the proprietors are the guys in Broken that are holding down the fort.

Broken Social Scene: Indie Rock Originals 2005

Maryland and Pennsylvania (with Delaware) were proprietary -- that is, their proprietors governed them.

A Brief History of the United States

Two other very important clauses of this agreement with the proprietors were the ones providing for religious liberty and for the furnishing of provisions and stock by the proprietors, the debts so contracted by the colony to be paid in three years.

Christoph von Graffenried's Account of the Founding of New Bern. Edited with an Historical Introduction and an English Translation by Vincent H. Todd, Ph.D. University of Illinois in Cooperation with Julius Goebel, Ph.D., Professor of Germanic Languages University of Illinois 1920

Having settled all these grand sounding titles the proprietors went on to frame a system of laws.

This Country of Ours: The Story of the United States Henrietta Elizabeth 1917

The mass of the population of a country can be led to love or hate any other country at the will of the newspaper proprietors, which is often, directly or indirectly, influenced by the will of the great financiers.

Proposed Roads to Freedom: Socialism, Anarchism and Syndicalism 1914

At last the unsatisfactory situation was relieved by the specific dedication of certain large inns to dramatic purposes; that is, the proprietors of certain inns found it to their advantage to subordinate their ordinary business to the urgent demands of the actors and the playgoing public.

Shakespearean Playhouses A History of English Theatres from the Beginnings to the Restoration Joseph Quincy Adams 1913

Here are two notable men, the Gracchi, who wished to put an end to the process of appropriation of the public land and to prevent the agglomeration of the latifundium, which was diminishing or causing to completely disappear the class of small proprietors, that is to say, of the free men, who are the foundation and the condition of the democratic life of the ancient city.

Essays on the Materialistic Conception of History 1896

The proprietors are the grand señors of the country.

Recollections of a Virginian in the Mexican, Indian, and Civil wars, 1894