6 Metaphors for tenements

To them, their small and frail tenement was the world.

When in progress of time they removed to more splendid and suitable abodes, their abandoned tenements became habitations of wretchedness.

The next tenement is a place of importance, the Rose Inna whitewashed building, retired from the road behind its fine swinging sign, with a little bow-window room coming out on one side, and forming, with our stable on the other, a sort of open square, which is the constant resort of carts, waggons, and return chaises.

The houses are mostly built in blocks and ranges, in which every separate tenement is a repetition of its fellow, though the architecture of the different ranges is sufficiently various.

some hungry Landlords would have rent before The Quarter day,I doe no more: by faire meanes Yield up your fort; the Tenement is mine owne

Every Line in it is a Riddle, and the Reader must be forced to consider it twice or thrice, before he will know that the Cynick's Tenement is a Tub, and Bacchus his Cast-coat a Hogs-head, &c. ' 'Twas Night, and Heav'n, a Cyclops, all the Day, An Argus now did countless Eyes display; In ev'ry Window Rome

6 Metaphors for  tenements