Dwelling in a city

Usage examples of tenement.

Was this right appurtenant to the manor, or was it also appendant to a frank tenement in a particular vill?

Lord Provost, who was concerned about such braw things as the restoration of the old cathedral and letting the sun into the ancient tenements, should be much interested in a small, masterless dog.

Lo Manto stood on the third step of the tenement stoop and looked down at Felipe Lopez.

People said this part of the plex used to be lined with little two- and three-story houses, brownstones, tenement apartments.

Lo Prek ducked into the ruined tenement that lay just below the approach to Koldyeze.

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They recalled the hot morning, when they sauntered over the trodden weed that covered the sickly grass-plots there, and sentimentalized the sweltering paupers who had crept out of the squalid tenements about for a breath of air after a sleepless night.

Our funerary jars keep not only our lights and silent hearts, but our wells, deeper than you can imagine, where the subterrane of lost hours, all the deaths that ever were, the deaths on which mankind has built new tenements of flesh and ramparts of stone moving ever upward even as we sink down and down, doused in twilights, bandaged by midnights.

The great deity that he held aloft energized his worm tenement, burning away in the white fire of a supermundane spirituality all animal dross.

It is not for us, who tell only what happened, to solve these mysteries of the seeming admission of unhoused souls into the fleshly tenements belonging to air-breathing personalities.

Now, as the Acoma retinue passed between the overcrowded tenements, the spicy, smoke-scented air that issued from the dens of the drug-flower sellers became prevalent.

He was also a pillar of the church and a philanthropist, founding a library at Augsburg and building model tenements for poor workers.

I had also been careful to come anonymously to the city, traveling in a rented vehicle across the Crater Plain at night, hiring a room in a slum tenement and staying away from any haunt-locks and blacklight devices that might scan my soul engrams and reveal me for what I was: Hestia Memar, a woman of Winterstrike, an enemy.

Her husband, Nicky Brompton, heir to a dukedom, called himself a farmer and omitted to specify that the estates on whose income his family was maintained comprised three thousand arable acres in Gloucestershire and East Anglia, a hundred times as much in Costa Rica with two gold mines beneath, and a district of London where luxury apartments leased by lesser millionaires rubbed buttresses with i92os model tenements built by Brompton Trust.

He mistrusted this salvage business Axel had got involved with, a gang of Brooklynites who after work and on weekends stripped abandoned houses and tenements of copper and lead piping and whatever else of value they could find, under contract to the demolition men.