parlour-boarder

We remember an idiotic goggle-eyed boy, with a big head and half-crowns without end, who suddenly appeared as a parlour-boarder, and was rumoured to have come by sea from some mysterious part of the earth where his parents rolled in gold.

Reprinted Pieces 2007

All the servants were there in the hall — all the dear friend — all the young ladies — the dancing-master who had just arrived; and there was such a scuffling, and hugging, and kissing, and crying, with the hysterical YOOPS of Miss Swartz, the parlour-boarder, from her room, as no pen can depict, and as the tender heart would fain pass over.

Vanity Fair 2006

Squire, who lived in the doubtful capacity of parlour-boarder with

The History of Pendennis 2006

That she might enable her sisters to earn their living as teachers, she sent one of them to Paris, and maintained her there for two years; the other she placed in a school near London as parlour-boarder until she was admitted into it as a paid teacher.

Letters written during a short residence in Sweden, Norway and Denmark 2003

Their position in the school appeared, to these new comers, analogous to what is often called that of a parlour-boarder.

The Life of Charlotte Bronte 2002

She is known only as parlour-boarder at a common school.

Emma Austen, Jane, 1775-1817 2001

Somebody had placed her, several years back, at Mrs. Goddard's school, and somebody had lately raised her from the condition of scholar to that of parlour-boarder.

Emma Austen, Jane, 1775-1817 2001

I ended up my four and a half years as a parlour-boarder in a semi-convent with a respect for women and their work, which had always been very high, made still higher.

The Adventure of Living Strachey, John St Loe 1922

During the four and a half years that the hospital was open, I lived in it as what might be called a parlour-boarder.

The Adventure of Living Strachey, John St Loe 1922

I heard that Mr. Sharp and Mr. Mell were both supposed to be wretchedly paid; and that when there was hot and cold meat for dinner at Mr. Creakle’s table, Mr. Sharp was always expected to say he preferred cold; which was again corroborated by J. Steerforth, the only parlour-boarder.

VI. Enlarge My Circle of Acquaintance 1917