In feudal times, some women actually shaved their heads to detract from their appearance and thwart rapacious landlords who had the right to claim a bride's virginity before the groom did.

This wilderness area was where hundreds of thousands of settlers were driven off their properties to make way for profitable sheep farming by rapacious landlords in the infamous Highland "clearances."

What to the rapacious landlord is the widow's last mite but a Fast-Fish?

As soon as I have made arrangements with our rapacious landlord.

Every civilised country has some way of controlling rapacious landlords.

Mannu is about the struggle between Damu, a tenant whose legal right to his land is obscure, and Krishnan Nair, a rapacious landlord.

His evidence indicates sites of low status disappearing both before and after the Black Death, with relatively few being eliminated by the well-recorded activities of rapacious landlords.

These factors must bulk larger in the explanation of depopulation than the sixteenth-century writers' scapegoat, the rapacious landlords.

Drawn by the hope of a fresh start, they found themselves pushed abroad by poverty, by rapacious new landlords who wanted villages cleared for sheep and deer, and by overcrowding.

The plot was a terrible message to the neighborhood at that time; the gist was that sweet, little E.T.'s will save us from rapacious landlords and ruthless drug lords.