"Sublet" Quotes from Famous Books
... acres, the parishioners immediately complained to the Worcester justices, for they wanted to provide against the contingent liability of having to support the inmates.[327] Four acres was then the quantity considered necessary to maintain a man and his family. It was an indictable offence to sublet, for then there would be two families where only one was before. Nor could lodgers be taken, for such increase of the inmates of the house ... — The Elizabethan Parish in its Ecclesiastical and Financial Aspects • Sedley Lynch Ware
... Nobody knows "how it happened." The house guard keeps silent on the subject. Paul sent her a wire to Kursk, very laconic: "home emptied everything stolen." Now he received a reply: "Sublet unfurnished." She is a darling. Never saw such energy. I wonder whether she is trying to get ... — Rescuing the Czar - Two authentic Diaries arranged and translated • James P. Smythe
... have sublet his job to you at half price if you'd been in the neighborhood. You are the limit, plus! I hope to see you fry in a New ... — The Desire of the Moth; and The Come On • Eugene Manlove Rhodes |