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  • The landlady of a boarding-house is a parallelogram - that is, an oblong angular figure, which cannot be described, but which is equal to anything

    Science   Swag   House  
    'Literary Lapses' (1910) 'Boarding-House Geometry'
  • We will have to make new arrangements, or revive bygone ones. We may, for another example, see the return of the boarding house.

    House   Example   May  
    Source: www.raisethehammer.org
  • The camel is an ugly animal, seen from above. Its shoulders slope formless like a sack, its silly little ears and fluff of bleached curls behind them have a respectable, boarding-house look, like some faded neatness that dresses for propriety but never dressed for love.

    Silly   Animal   House  
    Freya Stark (2011). “A Winter in Arabia: A Journey Through Yemen”, p.121, The Overlook Press
  • But this is predicated upon the man's becoming in very fact an American and nothing but an American. If he tries to keep segregated with men of his own origin and separated from the rest of America, then he isn't doing his part as an American. There can be no divided allegiance here. . . We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language, for we intend to see that the crucible turns our people out as Americans, of American nationality, and not as dwellers in a polyglot boarding-house; and we have room for but one soul loyalty, and that is loyalty to the American people.

    Loyalty   Men   America  
    Theodore Roosevelt (1941). “Theodore Roosevelt Cyclopedia”
  • Any two meals at a boarding-house are together less than two square meals.

    Food   Squares   Two  
    Stephen Leacock (2014). “Literary Lapses”, p.18, The Floating Press
  • Nobody shoulders a rifle in defense of a boarding house.

    House   Rifles   Defense  
  • My maternal grandma was a tough, tough lady and a stern woman, who lost her husband young and raised six kids by herself. She lived in a mining community in Upstate New York and ran a boarding house for miners. She took care of an entire family and miners who lived in the house as well.

    "Steve Carell: My family values". Interview with Elaine Lipworth, www.theguardian.com. June 28, 2013.
  • We have room but for one Language here and that is the English Language, for we intend to see that the crucible turns our people out as Americans of American nationality and not as dwellers in a polyglot boarding-house.

    America   People   House  
    Theodore Roosevelt (1954). “Letters: The days of Armageddon, 1909-1914”
  • It is rarely [Americans] dine in society, except in taverns and boarding-houses. Then they eat with the greatest possible rapidity, and in total silence.

    Dine In   Silence   House  
    Frances Trollope (2014). “Domestic Manners of the Americans”, p.37, Oxford University Press
  • They cut us up like boarding house pie. And that's real small pieces.

    Football   Real   Cutting  
  • Of tobacco and its consequences, I will say nothing but that the practice is at too bad a pass to leave hope that anything that could be said in books would work a cure. If the floors of boarding-houses, and the decks of steam-boats, and the carpets of the Capitol, do not sicken the Americans into a reform; if the warnings of physicians are of no avail, what remains to be said? I dismiss the nauseous subject.

    Book   Practice   House  
    Harriet Martineau (1837). “Society in America”, p.200
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