"Landless" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... never been as much attracted by Dolores as by Gillian and Mysie, but she was greatly touched by hearing that the meeting and opening of affection had been on the discovery that Gerald was probably nameless and landless, and that the maiden was bent on casting in her lot with him ...
— The Long Vacation • Charlotte M. Yonge
... on the south border of Kansas there camped a landless and homeless multitude. They looked longingly over the fertile prairies of the Cherokee Strip country, stirred the camp-fire embers emphatically, and sent another dispatch to Washington asking for a chance to get in. Congress ...
— My Native Land • James Cox
... trow there is not love enough between them to make them seek such a meeting. It was one of my mother's matches. Mistress Cicely would have cleaved to him more closely, though I am glad you saw through the fellow too well to give her to him. She would be a landless widow, whereas this Ratcliffe wife has a fair portion for ...
— Unknown to History - A Story of the Captivity of Mary of Scotland • Charlotte M. Yonge
... made homeless and landless by Stephen, I chose rather to cut a fortune out of the world than to beg one of the Queen, who has none ...
— Via Crucis • F. Marion Crawford
... Lincoln made it clear that, while their freedom must be recognized, he would not object to any legislation "which may yet be consistent as a temporary arrangement with their present condition as a laboring, landless, ...
— History of the United States • Charles A. Beard and Mary R. Beard |
