boarding-houses

We wanted none of their boarding-houses and none of their whisky.

Chapter 17 2010

They reside in various boarding-houses near at hand.

American Notes for General Circulation 2007

Firstly, there is a joint-stock piano in a great many of the boarding-houses.

American Notes for General Circulation 2007

As to the boarding-houses of our French watering-place, they are

Reprinted Pieces 2007

Numbers of invalids who cannot bear the rough life of the mountains fill its hotels and boarding-houses, and others who have been partially restored by a summer of camping out, go into the city in the winter to complete the cure.

A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains 2007

Mistresses of cafés, old governesses, keepers of boarding-houses, genteel beggars, and ladies of lower rank still, have this favorite pedigree.

The Paris Sketch Book 2006

But above all, O my countrymen! shun boarding-houses, especially if you have ladies in your train; or ponder well, and examine the characters of the keepers thereof, before you lead your innocent daughters, and their mamma, into places so dangerous.

The Paris Sketch Book 2006

The boarding-houses of the school were situated in the square, hard by the more ancient buildings of the hospital.

The Newcomes 2006

People had no objection to receive her at the continental towns where she stopped, and at the various boarding-houses, where she royally paid her way.

The History of Pendennis 2006

And he spoke with a quiet graciousness that was almost courtly, with a note of weariness and spiritual experience such as seldom comes into the boarding-houses, to slay joy and bring wisdom and give words shyness.

Our Mr. Wrenn 2004