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tenement
1. It is a terrible effort to keep a job and return to a small tenement and cope with growing children as well as the usually ailing parents
2. In 1867, the family came together again and lived in the squalid tenement flats at 3 Sciennes Place
3. either rented a tenement of ten pounds a-year, or could give such security for the discharge of
4. the caprice of any churchwarden or overseer, unless he either rented a tenement of ten pounds
5. should gain no settlement there by any means whatever, except either by renting a tenement of
6. Before he spoke to her, he checked off the map of the tenement and spotted that the flat belonged to a Mr Stuart Page
7. It consisted of rows of large tenement houses permeated by shops on some of the ground floors
8. As she showed her modest tenement, she reminded him that she owed it to him in every way
9. Thrilled, as she ran all the way to her tenement, he stood rooted in wonderment
10. Bursting through the entryway of the brownstone, he lands on the concrete stoop and discovers the confused and concerned faces of his neighbors gathering up and down the tenement block
11. So at ease did we feel however, that even though the tenement blocks around us were the sort where no one had a lock-up because it would get broken into, but it was the kind of area where everyone had a lock-up because nobody had anything worth breaking in for and everyone knew it, we didn’t hesitate to enter
12. sitting on the steps of a tenement building
13. Michael knew they needed a safe place to regroup and as such didn’t question Kate as she led him up the dingy concrete steps of the tenement
14. It’s what he does, creates his art, hanging outside a renovated tenement building, its stone-work sand-blasted
15. She helped him pack his gear into the boot of the car and they drove away from the tenement
16. The following morning City Council vans and lorries arrived at the tenement
17. The soul's tenement, if it has one, must
18. The soul's tenement,
19. The outside of the church was all boarded up and the church itself was interconnected with the old tenement housing to either side of it
20. tenement, if it has one, must be adapted to the new conditions of
21. The soul's tenement, if it has one, must be adapted to the new
22. The soul's tenement, if it has one, must be adapted to the new conditions of being
23. An opening was left in the shell, by which it was protected from the soil, for the spirit to communicate with its earthly tenement, when necessary; and the whole was concealed from the instinct, and protected from the ravages of the beasts of prey, with an ingenuity peculiar to the natives
24. The carriage, passing the open drains and mounds of rippedup roadway before the tenement houses, lurched round the corner and, swerving back to the tramtrack, rolled on noisily with chattering wheels
25. Herbert put it to me, what did I think of that as a temporary tenement for Tom, Jack, or Richard? Now, I thought very well of it, for three reasons I'll give you
26. In rapid succession we passed through the fringe of fashionable London, hotel London, theatrical London, literary London, commercial London, and, finally, maritime London, till we came to a riverside city of a hundred thousand souls, where the tenement houses swelter and reek with the outcasts of Europe
27. He had visions of sirens flashing up the tenement façade, of being wheeled out handcuffed to a stretcher and remanded to Altana
28. Tremens moves his arms in front of a tenement building, as if doing tai chi
29. “You see that?” Beyond was an old tenement with a charred façade
30. It took almost an hour to locate the freestanding tenement with B
31. I pushed my way through the crowd toward a rundown tenement where a ring of EMS trucks were parked
32. Crowds, mostly women and children, were streaming out of crumbling, low-slung tenement buildings
33. The air in the tenement room was like liquid mold, almost impossible for her to breathe
34. The Irish hoods were stubbornly posted between him and the tenement house stairway
35. There were civilians swarming inside the tenement house
36. CARROLL WAS UNSURE which way to head inside the burning tenement building
37. Others gradually emerged from the tenement buildings and alleys to gawk at the great machine
38. Now I edged along the carpetless floor of the old tenement where once I had lived with future dreams on my ceiling, nothing in my pockets, and empty paper waiting in my Smith-Corona portable
39. I walked across the street from the tenement, Henry paced me, guided by the sound of my footsteps and the jolting of his valise in my hand
40. The rest of the tenement fell
41. I stood at the front door of the tenement, listening
42. There was a picture of that maid, aged seventeen, on a table near the window leading out onto the second-floor tenement porch
43. In and around the tenement were various such invisible or half-visible people who lived but did not exactly live in the tenement
44. Jimmy, gape-mouthed but convivial on gin, came back to the tenement, pointing at his pink gums and laughing
45. He slept in empty tenement bathtubs at three in the morning, and did odd jobs around the place each day, laughing a lot at nothing in particular
46. He was waiting for me when I came in the downstairs entrance to the tenement
47. One night a year ago, Cinco de Mayo, there was a mariachi Mexican Spanish Pachuco conga lineup through the halls and down through the tenement, gassed on wine and enchiladas
48. To take her away from the tenement, her big elephant boneyard, well
49. I stared across at the tenement and judged how many thousand shadows were crammed in it, top to bottom
50. With a terrible sense of timing, the entire tenement shifted in its sleep
