Sentence Examples

  • At least he was never an absentee in heart.
  • The two last kings had mainly resided in Hungary, and in spite of the temporary agreement obtained at the diet of St Wenceslas, the Bohemians had not succeeded in establishing a strong indigenous government which might have taken the place of the absentee monarchs.
  • Proxies for absentee landlords are allowed.
  • The two chief men among the De Burghs were 10th to hold their lands of a little absentee girl.
  • Eight years later the Steelboys rose against the exactions of absentee landlords, who often turned out Protestant yeomen to get a higher rent from Roman Catholic cottiers.
 
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