What is "boarders"

Usage examples of "boarders".

I wanted to write out my account of some of the other boarders, but a domestic occurrence--a somewhat prolonged visit from the landlady, who is rather too anxious that I should be comfortable broke in upon the continuity of my thoughts, and occasioned--in short, I gave up writing for that day.

So I shall have to put off making my friends acquainted with the other boarders, some of whom seem to me worth studying and describing.

I was going to say something about our boarders the other day when I got run away with by my local reminiscences.

As the Landlady could never have educated him in this way out of the profits of keeping boarders, I was not surprised when I was told that she had received a pretty little property in the form of a bequest from a former boarder, a very kind-hearted, worthy old gentleman who had been long with her and seen how hard she worked for food and clothes for herself and this son of hers, Benjamin Franklin by his baptismal name.

I shall try to go through the rest of my description of our boarders with as little of digression as is consistent with my nature.

I told you, but the fact is I was desperate poor before I began to support myself taking boarders, and a lone woman without her--her-- The sentence plunged into the gulf of her great remembered sorrow, and was lost to the records of humanity.

I find something of the same interest in thinking about one of the boarders at our table that I find in my waking dreams concerning the Man of the Monument.

The fact of his being one of the boarders was not so important that I was obliged to speak of him, and I might just as well have drawn on my imagination and not allowed this dummy to take up the room which another guest might have profitably filled at our breakfast-table.

I should like to hear him read some of his verses himself, and I think some of the other boarders would like to.

I do not see any reason why some of the boarders should have made such remarks as they have done.

XI I suppose there would have been even more remarks upon the growing intimacy of the Young Astronomer and his pupil, if the curiosity of the boarders had not in the mean time been so much excited at the apparently close relation which had sprung up between the Register of Deeds and the Lady.

I do not think there is anybody left that either you or the boarders want to get rid of--unless it is myself,--I added modestly.

I should have all sorts of people crowding in to be my boarders for the sake of their chances.

Two other boarders of mine has given me notice that they was expecting to leave come the first of January.

And there is boarders who is always laying in wait for the days when the meals is not quite so good as they commonly be, to pick a quarrel with the one that is trying to serve them so as that they shall be satisfied.