"Squatter" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Charlotte Rosalind, daughter of Nathaniel Montefiore, F.R.S., of Coldeast, Hants, a grand-niece of the late Sir Moses Montefiore, with issue, two daughters - Marjorie Barabel Ruth and Nathalie Esther; (b) Iver Ian, a squatter in Queensland, who married a daughter of George Dill, one of the founders of the "Melbourne Argus," with issue - four children, the eldest of whom is a boy named Ian; (4) Lewis Maciver, a Liverpool ...
— History Of The Mackenzies • Alexander Mackenzie
... land jobbing began. Vast grants of territory were made to favourites and speculators, only to lie waste, unless improved by the squatter. To obtain a princely inheritance, it was only necessary to have a princely acquaintance with the government, and, in some cases, the Governor's servants. Land was not put up to public competition, but handsomely bestowed upon the needy and penniless Court attendant. A Governor's Secretary, ...
— The Rise of Canada, from Barbarism to Wealth and Civilisation - Volume 1 • Charles Roger
... forming something like a pretext for the exercise of power palpably interdicted by the plain sense and intention of the instrument." The cry of "home rule" for the State of Missouri on the slavery question was the forerunner of "squatter sovereignty" two decades later. Calhoun's later plea that any citizen had the right to migrate to any part of the co-operative public lands and to carry with him all his property found a first hearing in this debate on the admission ...
— The United States of America Part I • Ediwn Erle Sparks
... way, and dragged Bayne with him. The other fragment went straight up to the ceiling, and broke a heavy joist as if it had been a cane; then fell down again plump, and would have destroyed the grinder on the spot, had he been there; but the tremendous shock had sent him flying clean over the squatter board, and he fell on his stomach on the wheel-band of the next grindstone, and so close to the drum, that, before any one could recover the shock and seize him, the band drew him on to the drum, and the drum, which was drawing ...
— Put Yourself in His Place • Charles Reade
... A squatter in South Africa is a native who owns some livestock and, having no land of his own, hires a farm or grazing and ploughing rights from a landowner, to raise grain for his own use and feed his stock. Hence, these squatters are hit very hard by an Act which passed both Houses of Parliament ...
— Native Life in South Africa, Before and Since • Solomon Tshekisho Plaatje
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