How To Use Boardinghouse In A Sentence

  • At his office and at his boardinghouse the girls were mere mice, or cattish, or kittenish, or had insufficiently read the advertisements. Smart Dragons, Foolish Elves
  • Thenceforth, for a week, the Young Manchus meant to separate, revert to Chinese costume, live in Chinese boardinghouses in the East End, and thus utterly mislead and bamboozle the police, who, in their hunt for the miscreants, would be searching for Chinamen in European dress and living in European style. Number Seventeen
  • I found a cheap room in a kind of boardinghouse and stayed the night. Middlesex
  • Cloistered in boardinghouses, oppressed by poverty, belittled as weak and helpless by society, they fought back. Richard (RJ) Eskow: Rebels And Messiahs: 10 Spiritual Ancestors For Occupy Wall Street
  • Gitalis and I could sleep at the theatre overnight, and we could surely find a boardinghouse that would provide you ladies snug harbor. PAINT THE WIND
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  • Hotels and boardinghouses were sold out, and some halls and bars spread pallets upon their floors to accommodate wayworn arrivals. A Country of Vast Designs
  • On another tour, Cecil and Constance stayed at a boardinghouse run by a woman who kept a python as a ratter. Empire of Dreams
  •  As accounts were frequently disarrayed in towns like Dunnsbroke, he took up lodgings in Mrs. Winscombe's boardinghouse; his job would not be a quick one. Rev. Jasper Pickery and Three Manifestations of the Devil
  • But worst of all, she is forced to move back into the fleabag co-op boardinghouse where she lived when she was a student at the University of Texas. How Perfect Is That by Sarah Bird: Book summary
  • Though I had returned to college and was again living next door on East Lawn, I was not now a regular guest at her table as I had been previously; yet I cannot recall the boardinghouse where I got my meals. In the days of my youth when I was a student in the University of Virginia, 1888-1893.
  • The new position also required that the couple secure larger living quarters away from the common-mess boardinghouses. A Country of Vast Designs
  • She operated boardinghouses in which wealthy businessmen were paired with prostitutes. A Renegade History of the United States
  • A part of the money was set off for the building of a science boardinghouse.
  • Gitalis and I could sleep at the theatre overnight, and we could surely find a boardinghouse that would provide you ladies snug harbor. PAINT THE WIND
  • He tries to phone Suryeon, but the nearest phone to the boardinghouse is at the Wu house and Jongsuk is intercepting the calls. K-Drama 'Landscape in My Heart' week 2
  • The law was aimed at deterring unscrupulous boardinghouse touts who jumped aboard arriving ships to ply gullible sailors with cheap liquor and comely prostitutes.
  • The bedroom at the top of the boardinghouse was a loft with two windows that looked up to the sky. Soul
  • I could rent them out as help, or run a boardinghouse with all these strapping sons and handsome daughters to help me. 52449_CLARA
  • She goes to a boardinghouse, which is run by an Irish landlady. In 'Brooklyn,' Love Is Lost Over The Atlantic
  • Sometimes he called the boardinghouse and asked Mrs. O’Toole if he could speak with Theodora. Middlesex
  • Inside the boardinghouse across the street Ben slipped a nightshirt, once white with purple stripes, but now dingy and pale from many washings, over Adam's head.
  • Rooming houses" or "boardinghouses" have been increasing, but west side residents in the 4th ward neighborhood say many times there are problems such as home maintenance, underage drinking, parking and high-turnover related to college students that contradictsthe character of the neighborhood. Archive 2009-02-01
  • The boardinghouse will be the fourth door on your left. Into the Thinking Kingdoms
  • He engaged in all-night poker games in boardinghouse rooms throughout the city.
  • Later I went to Breslau, the capital of our province, where I lived in boardinghouses and attended a Gerhart Hauptmann - Autobiography
  • Hotels and boardinghouses were sold out, and some halls and bars spread pallets upon their floors to accommodate wayworn arrivals. A Country of Vast Designs
  • Even without the need to keep on the lookout for the neighbors as I made a mad dash to a waiting taxi, the boardinghouse had become nothing more than a crash pad.
  • Impossible, also, to imagine him calling the boardinghouse again and again until finally Mrs. O’Toole said, “Listen, sugar. Middlesex
  • From the tender age of twelve, my mother had been unable to start her day without the aid of at least two cups of immoderately strong, tar-black, unsweetened coffee, a taste for which she had picked up from the tugboat captains and zooty bachelors who filled the boardinghouse where she had grown up. Middlesex
  • Gitalis and I could sleep at the theatre overnight, and we could surely find a boardinghouse that would provide you ladies snug harbor. PAINT THE WIND
  • There were four such flats in each building, and each of the four was a "boardinghouse" for the occupancy of foreigners -- Lithuanians, Poles, Slovaks, or The Jungle

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