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The earlier aristocracy had a precarious tenure of strength and audacity.
The sleeper awakes
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But the gratitude of a savage is ever a precarious tenure.
A Complete Account of the Settlement at Port Jackson
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The Border States held their negroes by a precarious tenure.
Slavery and Four Years of War, Vol. 1-2 / A Political History of...
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Notwithstanding the precarious tenure of their existence, they all continued jealously to guard their exclusive privileges.
A Popular History of Ireland : from the Earliest Period to the E...
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The aristocracy, of which Colonel Byrd was a shining light, nevertheless held by a somewhat precarious tenure.
Beginnings of the American People
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The old anxiety as to her precarious tenure of her present quarters put on again all its familiar terrors.
The Unbearable Bassington
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The precarious tenure of fame
Fifteen Thousand Useful Phrases / A Practical Handbook Of Pertin...
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In his determined purpose he held the mine, and the indomitable bandit held the Campo by the same precarious tenure.
Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboard
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He is well paid and holds his position, whatever it may be, by a less precarious tenure than his American congener.
The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Volume 1
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For some eighty years after this settlement on James's Bay, the Company held a precarious tenure of their forts and factories.
The Great Lone Land / A Narrative of Travel and Adventure in the...
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Here and there on the coasts, living by most precarious tenure, was a sprinkling of missionaries, traders, bêche-de-mer fishers, and whaleship deserters.
South Sea Tales
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Five czars, from Michael Romanoff to the Great Peter, had held, over their enormous territory, the precarious tenure of their iron power!
Devereux — Volume 04
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The limits of the empire varied at different times, for the conquered States which composed it were held together by a precarious tenure.
Beacon Lights of History, Volume 04: Imperial Antiquity
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As for his sons having it by the precarious tenure of election, by which his father now holds it, 'a la bonne heure'.
Letters to His Son, 1752 / On the Fine Art of Becoming a Man of ...
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