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Meanings of land gentry in English

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Usage of land gentry in English
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But the entrenched power of the land gentry was not to be discounted so easily.
After the Rain : how the West lost the East
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The squatting class in Australia correspond to the landed gentry of England.
Town Life in Australia
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In Dickens's and Thackeray's day, the landed gentry could still be attacked.
The Guardian
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Jack had not been raised in the ways of the landed gentry.
Burning up
5
There were naval people, military, commercial, landed gentry, clerical, royalty, and beer.
The Heavenly Twins
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To the Protestant citizens of London was now added a Protestant landed gentry.
The Age of the Reformation
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He had a pretty foul mouth on him for landed gentry.
The Slab
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He warned and rebuked the landed gentry and the princes.
The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, V...
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The Farquaharsons were landed gentry in Virginia when these aristocrats were still grinding snuff.
The Tyranny of Weakness
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Ayub Khan had played politics and enrolled the landed gentry in his Muslim League.
The duel: pakistan on the flight path of american power
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I can't quite imagine a nurse ordering around a member of the landed gentry.
On Stranger Tides
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There were incendiary fires on various estates and farms belonging to the landed gentry.
The Created Legend
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Down, the landed gentry of the Ulster game, on a slippery day in Clones.
The Irish Times
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The clergy trembled for their benefices; the landed gentry for their abbeys and great tithes.
The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume ...
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He had moved up from this landed gentry role, through Cambridge, and into the government.
Timescape
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At the porch he met two of the landed gentry, one of whom he knew.
War and Peace