Friends are pressed into the Outlaw's service, and very soon he has a goodly number of troopers all ready to render service in the hour of their kinsman's need, well knowing that in aiding him they would be doing the best thing for themselves, as "landless men they a' wad be" if the King got his own way in Ettrick Forest.
"In the Border Country"
W. S. (William Shillinglaw) Crockett
They were lost in a landless, spiritless world, in which the sky, the weather, the sun and all was a mystery.
"My Attainment of the Pole"
Frederick A. Cook
It appears there are already more paupers in St. Petersburg proportionally to population than in any other European capital, and as many as a third of the inhabitants of the provinces are either entirely landless, or, more unhappy still, find their land, instead of a benefit, to be only a grievous burden of which they cannot shake themselves clear.
"Contemporary Socialism"
John Rae