landowner
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“When I got up there, my landowner was already in active firefighting mode,” he told The Times.
From Los Angeles Times • May 29, 2026
Near the Pee Dee River that runs through the Carolinas, George began working for a white landowner until, he recalls, a “hue and cry found me out.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 10, 2026
Around sunset on Sept. 22, six days after Cynthia was last seen, a rural landowner was walking her dog on a private dirt road 40 miles south of Arlington when she noticed a foul odor.
From Slate • Apr. 6, 2026
The landowner was also ordered to replant and maintain 176 trees on the site for 10 years.
From BBC • Apr. 2, 2026
This he would have done but he was ashamed lest men see him, who was no longer held a farmer within the gates of the town, but a landowner and a rich man.
From "The Good Earth" by Pearl S. Buck
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