Sentence examples for ancient tenant from inspiring English sources

Moreover, he argued the convictions of those two down to manslaughter and invoking the "plea to clergy," an ancient tenant of English law negotiated their sentences down to the branding of their thumbs as first-time offenders.

Mr. Coleman was a self-taught prodigy at 4, plunking out tunes on an ancient piano that a tenant in his mother's Bronx tenement had left behind after skipping out on the rent.

Mr. Stiller and Ms. Barrymore play Alex and Nancy, a young couple whose dreams of finding real-estate bliss in Brooklyn are complicated by their new tenant, an ancient and annoying woman (Ms. Essell) who annoys them almost to the point of homicide.

The building was ancient, and so crammed with tenants and subtenants that it appeared to be leaning sideways.

The earth's quiet beauty and the horror of ancient battles, malevolent pot-bellied giants and castles tenanted by grey-clad husks of malice are conveyed in mellifluous, ornate prose, never overwhelming for all its richness.

Haweswater, set in the 1930s, describes the calculated dispossession of a community of Cumbrian tenant hill-farmers, making way for a reservoir that will swallow their ancient rural valley in order to succour modern urban thirst.

Ancient temple.

Ancient Greece.

Ancient light.

Tenant: Creare L.L.C. Tenant broker: Brett Maslin, Adams & Co.

"You're not my tenant".