Usage of "boarding-house"

A house where someone can live and takes meals as paying guest.

Uso de boarding-house en inglés

Johnny found considerable difficulty in passing the time pleasantly at the boarding-house. 
 Twenty Years of Hus'ling 

Nannie and her mother slept in the back parlor of the boarding-house. 
 The Gay Cockade 

Tripp pulled the bell at the door of the mouldy red-brick boarding-house. 
 Options 

I saw a pile of coal in the street before a boarding-house. 
 The Iron Puddler: My Life in the Rolling Mills and What Came of ... 

I did not live in a boarding-house, but in a private family. 
 Ned Myers, or, a Life Before the Mast 

Her mother kept a boarding-house in New York; not an up-town boarding-house. 
 At the Sign of the Eagle 

He spent several weary hours in the vain search for a boarding-house. 
 Barriers Burned Away 

But these feelings visited him more rarely in the boarding-house than elsewhere. 
 The Divine Fire 

I am tired of the boarding-house and I wish to leave it. 
 The Tempting of Tavernake 

Indeed, the mother kept a private boarding-house near the law-school I attended. 
 At Last: A Novel 

One is, that she was once a servant-girl in a large boarding-house. 
 Lights and Shadows of New York Life / or, the Sights and Sensati... 

At the boarding-house I do have a little excitement now and then. 
 Sunny Slopes 

And there are a very nice class of people at the boarding-house. 
 Of Human Bondage 

It was half-past eight when they drew up at the boarding-house door. 
 Bressant: A Novel 

Another dinner in a boarding-house would lead me to suicide, I think. 
 Memoirs of My Dead Life 

She had reached her boarding-house and fitted her latch-key into the lock. 
 The Philistines 

Significados de boarding-house en inglés