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Example sentences for "boarding house"

  • None of this did I spend, as my boarding house wasn't far away.

  • But the father said he thought he would be in town for a week or so and that he thought he would go out and find a boarding house.

  • Tim had only been in Denver a few days, and knew very little of the city, but we found a crowd of old-timers at the house, and after a while I asked for Mrs. Johnson who kept a boarding house on such a street.

  • The last letter I had from mother, she said she was running a house on a certain street, and I supposed of course it was a boarding house.

  • The salvage crew was working hard in both houses now, and the Hancocks thought it best to remove some of their goods and chattels in case the flames spread beyond the boarding house.

  • There were several reasons why she did not want to go to a boarding house.

  • I returned to my boarding house, and gladdened the master and mistress with the intelligence that the consul had at last found a ship to take me to the united States.

  • In the mean time the crew remained by the ship, but took their meals at a boarding house on shore, as was the custom in Liverpool.

  • I hastened to Boston and took up my temporary abode at a boarding house, kept by Mrs. Lillibridge, a widow, in Spring Lane, on or near the spot on which the vestry of the Old South Church now stands.

  • The address you gave me turned out to be a boarding house just as you suspected it might--a second-rate place but apparently highly respectable, kept by a Mrs. Sheehan.

  • I rather imagine the place may be a boarding house, though I won't be sure as to that.

  • Oh, so it was a boarding house, after all.

  • His mother could not suppress a smile: "They're too expensive for a boarding house.

  • Mrs. Parkes was only a boarding house keeper, but she was proud.

  • Both men walked along silently until they reached Mrs. Hawkins' boarding house; here the Professor stopped and bade 'Zekiel good night.

  • Halfway to Hill's grocery they passed the Professor and Abner walking home to Mrs. Hawkins's boarding house.

  • As he looked down the road, a man came out of Mrs. Hawkins's boarding house, crossed the road and walked swiftly towards him.

  • Two hours later the Bray girls were seated in their aunt's comfortable room at a boarding house on a much better block than the one on which the tenement stood.

  • There is one drawback to keeping a boarding house--one has no privacy.

  • Clara, I have been commissioned to invite you to spend several days with me, until you can select a boarding house.

  • She was engaged in changing her home; has removed to Mrs. Hoyt's boarding house.

  • Come often when I get to a boarding house.

  • No, she has been hired as a nurse, at a boarding house.

  • If you don't want to go back to your aunt, that'll be better than a boarding house, won't it?

  • But she's shrewd; studio life is better than the kind of boarding house we escaped from.

  • I'm a stranger and I want to look for a boarding house.

  • Find a boarding house, and then look for a place.

  • No, she's going with me to a boarding house I'll find for her," said Burlingham.

  • I'm going to put you in my boarding house as my sister.

  • Sir, it is but one or two years since I saw standing at the railroad depot, as I passed from my boarding house to this chamber, some large wagons and teams, as if waiting for freight; the cars had not then arrived.

  • And to think that once, a few months before, she had been a nobody, a little waif in a boarding house!

  • One ordinarily does not look to find a Varick in a boarding house.

  • Although the room was hot, the meal was a deal better than the kind I used to have in my boarding house.

  • For one month previous to this, I had been rooming in a boarding house in Kanda-ku, pending a decision as to my future course.

  • My brother was, of course, unable to take her along, nor was there any danger of her following him so far away as Kyushu, while I was in a small room of a boarding house, and might have to clear out anytime at that.

  • Not only was it hot, but noisy,--about five times noisier than my boarding house.

  • She's living on her own salary in a boarding house in Bayswater!

  • She therefore, very excitedly, went into a boarding house.

  • They achieved their independence perfectly well, and far more cheaply, by going into a boarding house.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    boarding house; boarding school; cotton mill; curious expression; four rows; general policy; glorious victory; great desire; historical research; home consumption; hundred million; hundred pieces; infinite being; little surprized; makes them; ninth century; nothing doubting; other subjects; our hero; proportional basis; regarded himself; say nothing; strict justice