Not all the occupied (or tenanted) apartments were well kept up. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
The foundations of the stack were already tenanted. From Wordnik.com. ["Wee Tim'rous Beasties" Studies of Animal life and Character] Reference
It was as if an empty world had been fresh tenanted. From Wordnik.com. [Gilian The Dreamer His Fancy, His Love and Adventure] Reference
The house has sometimes been tenanted, at others not. From Wordnik.com. [Alonzo and Melissa The Unfeeling Father] Reference
Tower, which was now thickly tenanted by the fallen Jacobites. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume II.] Reference
Buildings, tenanted principally by families of the artisan class. From Wordnik.com. [The Hermit of Far End] Reference
There was a mean suburb in front of our position, tenanted solely by Egyptians. From Wordnik.com. [Byeways in Palestine] Reference
Aros Castle tenanted by their foes, nor would they submit to pay to them their rents. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume II.] Reference
Gilian realised that his imagination, and his imagination only, had tenanted the pew. From Wordnik.com. [Gilian The Dreamer His Fancy, His Love and Adventure] Reference
Fredericksburg was a ruin, riddled with shot and shell, tenanted only by the poorest classes. From Wordnik.com. [Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death] Reference
Fifth Avenue luxury, should not be the common possession of all our large tenanted buildings?. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 102, April, 1866] Reference
For the drawing-room was tenanted by one figure only -- that of a young lady in evening dress. From Wordnik.com. [A True Friend A Novel] Reference
At length he draws forth the dust-tenanted skull, coated on the outer surface with greasy mould. From Wordnik.com. [An Outcast or, Virtue and Faith] Reference
This is often seen along the Ghor; they are tenanted by wanderers at certain seasons of the year. From Wordnik.com. [Byeways in Palestine] Reference
The open door shows us that their cupboard is unfurnished, and tenanted by a hungry and solitary mouse. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of William Hogarth: In a Series of Engravings With Descriptions, and a Comment on Their Moral Tendency] Reference
I have cut into some dozens of the trumpet trees, and never could find one that was not tenanted by ants. From Wordnik.com. [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 7] Reference
The latter opens in the afternoon, by which time every little boxlike shop is tenanted by its proprietor. From Wordnik.com. [Morocco] Reference
Farringford, at the western end of the Isle of Wight, was first tenanted by him in 1853, and was bought in. From Wordnik.com. [Victorian Worthies Sixteen Biographies] Reference
Soon their path widened, and a glimmering light allowed them that the cavern was tenanted, or had been so. From Wordnik.com. [Edward Barnett; a Neglected Child of South Carolina, Who Rose to Be a Peer of Great Britain,—and the Stormy Life of His Grandfather, Captain Williams or, The Earle's Victims: with an Account of the Terrible End of the Proud Earl De Montford, the Lamentable Fate of the Victim of His Passion, and the Shadow's Punishment] Reference
One of these houses had been lately only partly tenanted, while the lower portion of it had been under repair. From Wordnik.com. [Recollections of Old Liverpool] Reference
The officer who had last tenanted Fritz's quarters, had kept pheasants there, and had had this made on purpose. From Wordnik.com. [A Love Story] Reference
John Price and his family tenanted a tolerably roomy cottage at the entrance to the village, close to the horse-pond. From Wordnik.com. [Working in the Shade Lowly Sowing brings Glorious Reaping] Reference
We found upon inquiry that it had been tenanted at a much later period than its appearance would have led us to suppose. From Wordnik.com. [Itinerary of Provence and the Rhone Made During the Year 1819] Reference
Their country is a devastated waste, tenanted by the enemy, who spread like a tidal wave of destruction in all directions. From Wordnik.com. [The New York Times Current History of the European War, Vol 1, Issue 4, January 23, 1915] Reference
It was supposed that when a mortal ceased to exist, his spirit tenanted the shadowy outline of the human form it had quitted. From Wordnik.com. [Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome] Reference
The intruder evidently as little expected to find the room already tenanted; for he also started upon seeing the kneeling woman. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 347, September, 1844] Reference
The spiritual self lived long before it tenanted this present body, and it will continue to live after it has discarded this body. From Wordnik.com. [The Life Radiant] Reference
A large lodging-house in the Rue des Boulangers is tenanted by 210 Italians, who get their living as models or itinerant musicians. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 401, September 8, 1883] Reference
The long low-ceilinged sitting-room above the grocer's shop was tenanted by ladies of whom in days gone by he had felt a certain awe. From Wordnik.com. [Mrs. Day's Daughters] Reference
When this is tenanted and the insect drops, gently shake him into the first bottle, using the last to capture the next insect, and so on. From Wordnik.com. [Practical Taxidermy A manual of instruction to the amateur in collecting, preserving, and setting up natural history specimens of all kinds. To which is added a chapter upon the pictorial arrangement of museums. With additional instructions in modelling and artistic taxidermy.] Reference
Dunstaffnage, sometimes called the Stone of Scone, on which they were crowned, was brought; had long passed away before Flora tenanted its chambers. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume III.] Reference
That the house over the way was tenanted was plain to all the world, -- at least one occupant sat gazing through the window of the first floor front room. From Wordnik.com. [The Beetle] Reference
Here they rear their young, and in the wet season every one of the thorns is tenanted, and hundreds of ants are to be seen running about, especially over the young leaves. From Wordnik.com. [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 7] Reference
Carrying with him, in his first adventure, his original energy of mind and frame, he is astonished to see the land tenanted by human beings who are content with mere existence. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 385. November, 1847.] Reference
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