Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A real-estate agent; in England, also a steward or manager of an estate or landed property.
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Examples
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The land-agent received therefore the first fire of
A Start in Life 2007
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It has not felt the desolating tramp of lawyer or land-agent, nor been bombarded by fine and recovery, lease and release, bargain and sale, Doe and Roe and Geoffrey Styles, and the rest of the pitiless shower of slugs, ending with a charge of Demons.
Mary Anerley Richard Doddridge 2004
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Gourlay, an erratic Scotch land-agent, by the ruling class who feared his exposure of public abuses, had much to do with creating a reform party in the legislature.
Canada J. G. Bourinot
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The afternoon of the second day he reached where the local land-agent lived.
The Narrative of Gordon Sellar Who Emigrated to Canada in 1825 Gordon Sellar
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In the management of the estate, he had outraged the feelings of every landlord and land-agent within a radius of many miles, but he gained the affection of his tenants, and this he seemed to value more than the approval of his fellow-proprietors.
The Daughters of Danaus Mona Caird
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His wife and daughter live under circumstances which would drive many people mad, and the combative land-agent and farmer himself maintains a belligerent attitude, the grey head and slight spare figure bowed, but by no means in submission.
Disturbed Ireland Being the Letters Written During the Winter of 1880-81. Bernard H. Becker
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But it'll be all right if you like this land-agent idea.
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Scotland, as a sort of land-agent, as he wanted a chap who could play cricket, because he was keen on the game himself, and always had a lot going on in the summer up there.
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In that case I should have made rather more than forty pounds in a few days, simply by assembling together my solicitor, stockbroker, land-agent, etc., etc., in London, and without going to West Africa at all.
Once a Week 1919
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He was not quite secretary, not quite land-agent, not quite business-adviser, not quite companion, but something of all four.
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