Boarders

Examples

• Lor, Miss Smithers, dear,' said the other nine-and-twenty boarders. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• Such luxury of grief, however, is only allowed to parlour-boarders. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Two or three of the houses were occupied by the families of members of the staff; in the others boarders were taken, the laboratory, of course, furnishing all the patrons. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• The keeper of a chandler's shop in a front parlour, who took in gentlemen boarders, lent his assistance in making the bed. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• On the evening preceding the examination-day, I was walking in the garden, as were the other teachers and all the boarders. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• When matins came to be said, there was a place vacant in the first rank of boarders. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• Grapplers and boarders lined the contiguous rails of each. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• Then as the Carthaginian rammed or swept alongside, this _corvus_, as it was called, could be let down and the boarders could swarm aboard him. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• We were twelve boarders, and there were two Miss Donnys, twins. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• The establishment was both a pensionnat and an externat: the externes or day-pupils exceeded one hundred in number; the boarders were about a score. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• Had Mrs. Sedley been a woman of energy, she would have exerted it after her husband's ruin and, occupying a large house, would have taken in boarders. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.

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