I inhabit a weak, frail, decayed tenement; battered by the winds and broken in on by the storms, and, from all I can learn, the landlord does not intend to repair. From LearnThat.org. [John Quincy Adams (1767-1848)]
The term tenement at that time did not have the negative connotation that it has today. From Wordnik.com. [RutlandHerald.com] Reference
This tenement is new also because of the pedagogical organisation of the "Children's House". From Wordnik.com. [The Montessori Method] Reference
A definition of the word tenement in law is: Property, such as land, held by one person "leasing" it to another. From Wordnik.com. [The SCAM behind NAIS - "Our Land: Collateral for the National Debt"] Reference
Now, a tenement is not a building that is stuck up in a ramshackle way on one of the streets in the lowest ward of the city. From Wordnik.com. [Problems of Population] Reference
When you hear the word tenement it might conjure up images of dark, run down and overcrowded late 19th century apartment living. From Wordnik.com. [BlogHer] Reference
The majority of dwellings used to belong to persons called tenement owners. From Wordnik.com. [30TH ANNIVERSARY OF HIS 1ST SPEECH] Reference
For the tenement is a great working hive in which nothing has value unless exchangeable for gold. From Wordnik.com. [Children of the Tenements] Reference
Perhaps Rose's stout refusal to be subdued even by the tenement was their hope, as it was her capital. From Wordnik.com. [Children of the Tenements] Reference
The section of the city embraced in the wards we have named is filled with a class of buildings called tenement houses. From Wordnik.com. [Lights and Shadows of New York Life or, the Sights and Sensations of the Great City] Reference
The tenement was a good one, to be sure, when we found it, -- large and lofty apartments with many windows, commanding a fine view. From Wordnik.com. [In and Around Berlin] Reference
It was some kind of tenement, Vin thought — a place to pack skaa families. From Wordnik.com. [Mistborn] Reference
At fourteen I was boarding alone in a kind of tenement on the East Side. From Wordnik.com. [Queed] Reference
Vitifer is one of the "tenement" farms and don't belong to the Duchy; and. From Wordnik.com. [The Torch and Other Tales] Reference
Regulate the kind of tenement houses to be rented and the number of persons who shall sleep in one room. From Wordnik.com. [Afro-American Encyclopaedia; or, The Thoughts, Doings, and Sayings of the Race, Embracing Addresses, Lectures, Biographical Sketches, Sermons, Poems, Names of Universities, Colleges, Seminaries, Newspapers, Books, and a History of the Denominations, Giving the Numerical Strength of Each. In Fact, It Teaches Every Subject of Interest to the Colored People, as Discussed by More than One Hundred of Their Wisest and Best Men and Women.] Reference
The Rutland Herald ran ads for families seeking housing; one that ran for several months sought a "tenement" house for a family of adults. From Wordnik.com. [RutlandHerald.com] Reference
"tenement;" I have never found an instance of its being called a. From Wordnik.com. [Notes and Queries, Number 08, December 22, 1849] Reference
"tenement," reached by a narrow winding stair, were adapted, and The. From Wordnik.com. [Elsie Inglis The Woman with the Torch] Reference
My family wasn't rich; in fact, we lived in a tenement in the Bronx. From Wordnik.com. [Why Service Matters] Reference
He lived in a cramped tenement in Harlem until his landlord recently kicked him out. From Wordnik.com. [The Ghetto Preppies] Reference
Most of the tenement dwellers were getting their water from a common outdoor spigot. From Wordnik.com. [The Heat Wave Of 1896 And The Rise Of Roosevelt] Reference
Having made it to New York the family moved into a decrepit tenement on Broome Street. From Wordnik.com. [Edward P. Kohn: "We're Having a Heat Wave"] Reference
There were two or three other lights illuminating windows in the block-long tenement. From Wordnik.com. [Ibby's Falafel] Reference
I've grown up in tenement buildings, having people above you and below you and around you. From Wordnik.com. [Periscope] Reference
My flat is six years old, but is less eco-friendly than the old tenement I lived in before!. From Wordnik.com. [What's the most eco-friendly way to dry my laundry indoors?] Reference
Recently, police officers had to talk him down from the roof of a tenement building in Kowloon. From Wordnik.com. [Built To Last] Reference
I turn, run up the steps to the tenement that siphons out the very warmth it's supposed to keep in. From Wordnik.com. [Winter Kills] Reference
Still, anywhere else and this would have been classed as a tenement dwelling, not a diplomatic residence. From Wordnik.com. [Letter From Kabul: Goodbye Hotel Spinzar] Reference
He makes bags in a print called Yaumatei, after the Hong Kong district crowded with classic tenement housing. From Wordnik.com. [A New Love For The Local] Reference
Inside a second-floor tenement, two dozen Falun Gong practitioners sit closely together, chanting from their handbooks. From Wordnik.com. [China's Growing Holy War] Reference
At dawn before the Harlem homecoming, he went by himself to the roof over his family's tenement, where he raised pigeons as a child. From Wordnik.com. [He's Back] Reference
The oldest son of a garment worker, Salk grew up in a New York City tenement and paid for his education largely through scholarships. From Wordnik.com. [The Savior Of Summer] Reference
The play centers on the Youngers, a black family that struggles to move from a tenement in Chicago to a new home in an all-white suburb. From Wordnik.com. [A Juicy “Raisin”] Reference
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