Crossword-Solution: RENTAGE 7 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 8

Taking for his text the rentage question, he argued that Slocum was well able to give a trifle more for labor than his city competitors.

Fond man, that looks on earth for happiness, And here long seeks what here is never found! For all our good we hold from Heaven by lease, With many forfeits and conditions bound; Nor can we pay the fine and rentage due: Though now but writ and seal'd, and given anew, Yet daily we it break, then daily must renew.

The average price of their lettings was nearly 24 pounds each, although some of the rams brought the sum of 180 pounds, or nearly _nine hundred dollars_! What would some of the old-fashioned farmers of New England, of forty years ago, think of paying nearly a thousand dollars for the rent of a ram for a single year, or even one-tenth of that sum? But this rentage was not a fancy price.

There is something like an accumulation of sixteen thousand dollars of rentage; and as one is luckily empty, Christine and the children are going there at once.