Inmate

Examples

• No sleep was there: the inmate was walking restlessly from wall to wall; and again and again he sighed while I listened. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• The name that Bella had so often seen in old newspapers, when she was an inmate of Mr Boffin's house! Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• On similar grounds he never beheld an inmate at any one of its windows but he touched his hat. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Mr Rokesmith is very punctual, very quiet, a very eligible inmate. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• I had an undefined impression that it might have been better if we had had some other inmate, but I could hardly have explained why even to myself. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• I found this vision of beauty in Perdita's alcove, in earnest conversation with its inmate. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Conqueror I might be of the house; but the inmate would escape to heaven before I could call myself possessor of its clay dwelling-place. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• The inmate was lying in troubled slumber upon a couch similar to that on which the Palmer himself had passed the night. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• One February night--I remember it well--there came a voice near Miss Marchmont's house, heard by every inmate, but translated, perhaps, only by one. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• Mrs. Markleham was a regular inmate of the cottage then; but she talked and talked, and saw nothing. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• Miss Bella Wilfer becomes an inmate, for an indefinite period, of the eminently aristocratic dwelling. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• On receiving his inmate again, the proprietor of the Asylum acknowledged that he had observed some curious personal changes in her. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Every house had its inmate; but I could not perceive them. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Still, the same quiet life went on at the little cottage, and the same cheerful serenity prevailed among its inmates. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• They delighted in the burning of monasteries and nunneries and the slaughter of their inmates. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• And busily, in my own mind, I ran over the list of our inmates, seeking this paragon, this pearl of great price, this gem without flaw. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• So disturbed was I that I determined to see a little more of the new inmates of the cottage. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• On the contrary, she could think of nothing but Mansfield, its beloved inmates, its happy ways. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• Twice had he entered huts at night while the inmates lay sleeping upon their mats, and stolen the arrows from the very sides of the warriors. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• I warned the inmates of the house, so as to avoid a second tragedy, and we went down, with the happiest results. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• Were the inmates retired to rest? Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• There was no appearance of its inmates stirring at that early hour. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• The house and its inmates specially suited me. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• It took no inconsiderable perseverance to arouse the inmates; but at last the respectable proprietor appeared, and undid the door. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• Instead of answering these letters, Miss Halcombe caused the house in St. John's Wood, and the proceedings of its inmates, to be privately watched. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• The house swarmed with inmates. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• The hotel was large, and the people kind, and all the inmates of the cart were taken in and placed on various couches. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• This was resented by the Godfreys; we differed, and they removed, leaving me the whole house, and I resolved to take no more inmates. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.

Editor: Olaf