34 Verbs to Use for the Word boarders

She told him that, as the accommodation at her disposal was so small, she only took boarders for a limited time, and this of course enabled him to curtail his inquiries.

Pap went about somewhat like a whipped dog, spoke little on any subject, and tolerated no mention of the topic of the day in Cottonville; his face kept the boarders quiet at table and in the house, anyhow.

I should be compelled to stand at bay until a breeze got up, repelling boarders with the boat-hook!

He at first dismissed all idea of that Madame Rouche, of whom the girl had spoken so strangely, but he thought of making some inquiries respecting Madame Bourdieu, who accommodated boarders at the little house where she resided in the Rue de Miromesnil.

"I have brought you a boarder," she said.

With these,for I readily converted them into money,I purchased a safe asylum in an obscure but decent family, whose poverty did not afford them the indulgence of a scrupulous fastidiousness or impertinent curiosity; it was enough for their straitened conscience that I had the manners and the purse of a lady, they asked no questions which might cost them a profitable boarder, the only one they could accommodate in their poor way.

You will then have a perfect right to charge all your boarders for extra fires.

My professional work in the vicinity of Greenton left my evenings and occasionally an afternoon unoccupied; these intervals I purposed to employ in studying and classifying my fellow-boarder.

I informed her of my errand, which was to make some inquiries concerning two former boarders of hers, in whom a portion of the public had expressed some interest, and of whom I should be glad to know certain personal details,as to their habits, appearance, and so on.

" The two boys crouched there behind the woodshed and by cautiously peeping around the corner could watch the late boarder of the Hoskins hurrying down the lane, as though he had received a hasty summons from the president of his college demanding an immediate return.

He could not go out and drag boarders by physical force into his private hotel!

One set's as green as the other,exclaimed a boarder, who has never been identified.

" Still, the pretty ones do not brighten; they walk up and down, eyeing askance the quiet boarders who look so contented over their children and worsted-work, and wondering in what part of the world they have taken the precaution to leave their souls.

Johnnie greeted the new boarder with a reserve which was in marked contrast to the reception he got from the other girls.

" "You spoke of having one boarder," I said.

When I cut up an old fowl and help the boarders, I always feel as if I ought to say, Won't you have a slice of widdah?instead of chicken.

He was invariably obliging, with a breezy cheerfulness, though at times there was a steely expression in the eyes which inspired his fellow-boarders with a sense of fear.

Still, he bein' a boarder and deputy sheriff, he might accidentally do us some good.

The Capuchin, with uplifted crucifix, was seen to head the attack, and to lead the boarders to the assault.

"I don't know what you'll do, now you've lost your boarder," she said.

But she could not manage the boarders, because she had not sufficient imagination to put herself in their place.

I need not specially mention the other boarders, with the exception of Benjamin Franklin, the landlady's son, who sits near his mother.

Despite her fury, apparent in the noises, Louisa had not found courage to neglect the sacred boarders.

What was I saying,I, who would not for the world have pained our unfortunate little boarder by an allusion? I will go,he said,and made a movement with his left arm to let himself down from his high chair.

"We are recommended to do all we can to persuade our boarders, especially when they are situated like this one, to nurse their infants.

34 Verbs to Use for the Word  boarders