"Rack-rent" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... is a real right down lord," cried a third eagerly, "he won't rack-rent the tenants, and grind down the poor. Why, he saved us and our little ones from the workhouse last winter, though he is poor—that is quite poor for a gentleman—I ...
— The Young Lord and Other Tales - to which is added Victorine Durocher • Camilla Toulmin
... Then he went, and his neighbors too, and now only the black tenant remains; but the shadow-hand of the master's grand-nephew or cousin or creditor stretches out of the gray distance to collect the rack-rent remorselessly, and so the land is uncared-for and poor. Only black tenants can stand such a system, and they only because they must. Ten miles we have ridden to-day and have ...
— The Souls of Black Folk • W. E. B. Du Bois |
