house-rent

The air I always breathed was mixed up with grub an 'house-rent an' scrappin 'an booze an' that's all they talked about, too.

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The cost of living abroad: Reports and statistics showing the prices of house-rent, wages, commodities, clerk-hire, by Charles Toll Bidwell

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Owing to the high rates of house-rent and the difficulty of procuring servants, together with the exorbitant wages which they require, many married couples, and even families, reside permanently at the hotels.

The Englishwoman in America 2007

For above the continual running on of house-rent, the neglect and unnecessary expensive charge of servants; you consume your self also much mony in travelling and pleasure; besides the peril and uneasiness that you suffer to please and complaite your new married

The Ten Pleasures of Marriage and the Second Part, The Confession of the New Married Couple A. Marsh

This excessive house-rent is caused by the dearness of labour, which enhances the cost of building; for, either the builder will exact a rent proportioned to his outlay, or (if he cannot obtain such a rent) he will not build.

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 401, November 28, 1829 Various

Such has been the rapid rise of every article of american produce, of house-rent, and land (to say nothing of mercantile speculation, great part of the carrying trade of Europe being now in the hands of the Americans), that surely there never was a country where that passion was so universal, or had such unbounded scope.

Travels in the United States of America Commencing in the Year 1793, and Ending in 1797. With the Author's Journals of his Two Voyages Across the Atlantic. William Priest

Those men are bound by agreements which they must fulfill -- they work continually; and although their wages are in some instances nominally very low, and in all much lower than we could wish, still their allowances -- in house-rent, grazing, and con-acre -- enable them not only to live comfortably, but sometimes to amass considerable sums of money.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 343, May 1844 Various

I discovered amid my landlords 'receipts for house-rent (all of which I keep with great care, just to prove to myself that they are really and truly paid) a little copy-book, which was narrow and long, like some mediæval piece of sculpture.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 74, December, 1863 Various

I should do away with these privileges, making them pay house-rent and land-rent, making them pay for their wood, if of certain qualities, and for the use of teams and implements -- for their own work.

Letters from Port Royal Written at the Time of the Civil War (1862-1868) Elizabeth Ware [Editor] Pearson

Moreover, he states that, 'poor as is his mode of living, he has not enough to subsist on after paying his house-rent and other necessary expenses.'

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