He would not come back to impose upon his brother a renewal of that lease of gratitude he derived from him; he would rather spare him the inevitable conflict of feeling which the contrast of his own affluence with the humble condition of an exile would evoke.
"The Martins Of Cro' Martin, Vol. II (of II)"
Charles James Lever
He runs the hotel on a lease.
"The Man from Jericho"
Edwin Carlile Litsey
The difficulty is that the Crown authorities haven't been selling land lately, and would sooner lease.
"The Greater Power"
Harold Bindloss W. Herbert Dunton