We are back again in London--in Mrs Roby's little cabin at the top of the old tenement in Grubb's Court.
Of course the snoring told its own tale with brazen-tongued clamour, and the wholetenement trembled all night long from top to bottom.
Soul of an Ideal' as Sergius Thord called her,--her frail mortal tenement will soon be drawn down to the depths in such a storm as this!
There was a good woman on this same floor of the old tenement house, and Grace paid her out of her own purse to look in on Jennie Albert occasionally and see that she got her medicine and food.
Plenty of tenement houses crowded about it but four hundred and sixteen was surely the warehouse.
A household in a tenement receives almost no raw material.
There is the greatest willingness to lend or borrow anything, and all the residents of the given tenement know the most intimate family affairs of all the others.
It is certainly genuine, for it induces an occasional charity visitor to live in a tenement house as simply as the other tenants do.
So the parishes were allowed by statute to remove any person coming to settle in any tenement under the value of ten pounds who was likely to be chargeable to it.
They had to bring a certificate of their present parish membership to the new parish, where they could settle if they rented a tenementworth ten pounds a year or served in a parish office.
The light guttered and went out, leaving thetenement in darkness; but still he slept.
Intently he listened for any sound from the nether world, but all was as silent below as above; the house under the ground seemed to be but one more empty tenement in the void.
The sentry whom Dick had accosted at the mosque came rushing from the door of the tenement which our hero had but just vacated and waved an object aloft.
From that squalid tenement dwelling down by Whitechapel, he had removed himself to Carl Reitberg's luxurious mansion, and protest on that indignant gentleman's part had no effect.
We have one room in a crowded tenement district where the right young woman has produced unusual order.
Some social workers report that their greatest difficulty in dealing with the children of the tenement district is absolute lack of the play spirit.
We left the tenement house together and walked across to Broadway, all along that gaily lighted thoroughfare, illy named the White Way.
We found this home in the second story of a tenement house on East Ninth Street.
It's seated in a Pleasant Vale, Beneath a rising Hill; This Tenement is to be Let, To whosoe'er I will.
At first they lived in a tenement house themselves; then the growth of their work and the coming of other helpers forced them to get a little house, then another, and another, a cottage in the country, a convalescent home.
But theTenement House Commission of 1894, and the other commissions which followed it, did much to improve conditions.
This little company of women, some twenty or thirty of them, go about from tenement to tenement, bringing cleanliness and order with them.
And as to modern Israelites, all I know of them personally is the almost cringing obsequiousness of a few wealthy merchants with whom I have dealt, and the dirty swarm of repulsive creatures that infest the tenement districts.
They are nearly all from that poor class in the tenement district.
Three children there were, waiting in some tenement buildings for her return.
And Maud--well, Mrs. Rowse had even got a piano in their little tenement rooms for Maud to learn on, but Maud would never practise neither.
By the Tenement House Law of New York, the use of school sinks is prohibited even in old buildings.
The following are the methods recommended by the New York City Tenement House Department for the water-proofing and damp-proofing of foundation walls and cellars: Water-proofing and Damp-proofing of Foundation Walls.
I got t'irty-six tenement houses wid at leas' two hundered woters to de house.
Bread was dear and babies cheap in the tenement where Tony was born, and his character was greatly affected by this circumstance.
He had come to his tenement home in Cherry Street, just below Franklin Square, to partake of his noonday meal.
Loss of feeling, or of tact, in one or more limbs, is the result of paralysis, and other morbid conditions of the system, to which our frail tenement is subject.
Of course, from the standpoint of fashionable ambition, seventeen thousand a year in New York is but one remove from tenement house poverty.
Anyone wishing to be convinced need only make an excursion into the poor tenement district and observe the garbage barrels overflowing with spoiled food--or the trashy goods exposed for sale in the shops and the markets.
He expected to find the Hallowells in a tenement in some more or less squalid street overhung with railway smoke and bedaubed with railway grime.
And this town-mote of burghers, freemen within the walls, who held their rights as burghers by virtue of their tenure of ground on which their tenement stood, met in Carfax Churchyard.
A second purchase was made in 1255, when a tenement called Drogheda Hall, the then first house in the High Street on the north side, was bought.
The crowded bunk-house and squalid tenement revolted him.
At the present day, an auster tenementis a species of copyhold, with all the incidents to that tenure.
A visitor not long since was in a new tenement house in Pittsburgh, occupied by a number of families, with the usual quota of children.
Subsequently, an ordinance was passed providing for the compulsory registration of tenement houses.
It would substitute for a mean and shabby portion of the city an ensemble beautiful and effective, and it would bring a large open space to the very edge of a poor tenement section.
In one tenement the ground floor was occupied as a stable; a cellar revealed the piled up accumulations of years; privy vaults flourish and household water supply is noticeable chiefly because of its inadequacy.
Matthews, headworker of Kingsley House, and the leaders of the Civic Club,--pioneer work which had secured the provisions of the existing state tenement house law and the creation of a tenement division under the Bureau of Health.
The requirements for the size of rooms and of windows, for basement and cellar apartments and for sinks and water-closets, are the same as in the tenement house health law.
Courts between tenementhouses or wings of tenements may not be less than ten feet wide.
The act does not require that an official certificate that a completed new tenement house complies with the law must be issued before the building is occupied.
In existing tenement houses one closet for two apartments is required, and for existing buildings converted to tenement use after the passage of the law, one closet for six rooms, but not less than one to a floor.
The Company will agree to manage, on these same lines, tenement houses for property holders on commission.
He held thistenement which Pamphlett openly coveted: but what besides had he that any one could envy?
His savings were few, but they bought him a small share in a fishing-boat, besides enabling him to rent the tenement in the Doctor's House, and to make it habitable with a few sticks of furniture.
He escaped through the tenement house and at once got ready to leave New York in a hurry.
Suddenly Noddy turned, shook his fist, and disappeared into a dilapidated tenement house, which he was in front of at the time.
Nestor made his way to New York, after his mysterious disappearance from the hut, and he found poor but faithful friends in the tenement house.
That tenement house is like a summer hotel--people coming and going all the time; and every time a tenant moves yet I got to pay for painting and repapering the rooms.
A tenement house this year is like a tenement house last year, Abe, also the year before.
What he don't know about putting uptenement houses, Abe, ain't worth knowing.
If you want to build tenement houses, Mawruss, you got my permission; but you could leave me out.
He led the way up the front stoop of the tenement and knocked at the first door on the left-hand side.
He then specified the salary and commission to be paid, and engaged Mr. Feldman to draw the deed for the tenement house.
All you do when you got a tenement house, Abe, is to go round and collect the rents, and when you got a customer for it you don't have to draw no report on him.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tenement" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
