The tenants who farmed the glebe land threatened to quit unless their rents were materially reduced, and unless a considerable sum was expended upon improvements.
"Hodge and His Masters"
Richard Jefferies
As the vicar had some hundred and fifty acres of glebe let at the usual agricultural rent, if the tenants could be persuaded or instructed to farm on the cottager's system, what an immense increase it would be to his income!
"Hodge and His Masters"
Richard Jefferies
As the burnished clouds fade from the sky on the dark surface of the river the black barges hang their lights and in Cheyne Row and glebe Place, down Oakley Street, and along the wide spaces of Cheyne Walk, lamps burn mildly in a hundred windows.
"Fortitude"
Hugh Walpole