Boardinghouses

Thenceforth, for a week, the Young Manchus meant to separate, revert to Chinese costume, live in Chinese boardinghouses in the East End, and thus utterly mislead and bamboozle the police, who, in their hunt for the miscreants, would be searching for Chinamen in European dress and living in European style. ❋ Unknown (1915)

Later I went to Breslau, the capital of our province, where I lived in boardinghouses and attended a ❋ Unknown (1912)

She operated boardinghouses in which wealthy businessmen were paired with prostitutes. ❋ Thaddeus Russell (2010)

Cloistered in boardinghouses, oppressed by poverty, belittled as weak and helpless by society, they fought back. ❋ RJ (2011)

"Rooming houses" or "boardinghouses" have been increasing, but west side residents in the 4th ward neighborhood say many times there are problems such as home maintenance, underage drinking, parking and high-turnover related to college students that contradictsthe character of the neighborhood. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The new position also required that the couple secure larger living quarters away from the common-mess boardinghouses. ❋ Robert W. Merry (2009)

Hotels and boardinghouses were sold out, and some halls and bars spread pallets upon their floors to accommodate wayworn arrivals. ❋ Robert W. Merry (2009)

Twain and Gillis were forced to move out of the Occidental, beginning a restless round of rent-jumping at various fusty boardinghouses. ❋ JR. ROY MORRIS (2010)

To raise money to support Basque historical projects such as the restoration of one of the boardinghouses that became “home away from home” for sheepherders as well as the social center of the Basque immigrant community, the couple give a lamb barbecue each year. ❋ Molly O’Neill (2010)

Weeks had been spent sorting out hotels and boardinghouses. ❋ A. D. Scott (2010)

In summer it did a roaring trade with day-trippers and holidaymakers staying in one of the many boardinghouses or at the town campsite. ❋ A. D. Scott (2010)

Chattanooga, at least on occasion, could afford to stay in fleabag hotels and boardinghouses that catered to blacks.45 ❋ Timothy M. Gay (2010)

And yet, before we even get fairly started, we are invited to believe in a world of seedy lobster boardinghouses with slatternly lady lobsters in satin slips giving their lobster lovers the go-ahead. ❋ Unknown (2010)

A severe shortage of hotels and boardinghouses meant there was hardly any place to stay in Washington, wrote Whit Cobb in a 1995 article in the Dickinson Law Review on efforts to move the capital. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The chief justice of the territory and his judicial associates and other governmental officers “were domiciled with less splendor,” he added, taking quarters in local boardinghouses and issuing formal decrees from offices in their bedrooms. ❋ JR. ROY MORRIS (2010)

[Hey buddy]! There is no need to reach across the table for the [potatoes]! We do not [tolerate] a boardinghouse reach in this house! ❋ Peter Gazinya (2010)