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  • It was for this reason that the school was so popular a boarding-place for performing animals when the owners were on vacation or out of

    CHAPTER XXVI 2010

  • Savage [10] and his Irish Club, at their boarding-place; and, passing an evening scurvily enough, did not come home till eight.

    The Journal to Stella 2003

  • D.F. Slee, of Buffalo, who was associated in business with Mr. Langdon, and asked him to find a suitable boarding-place, one that would be sufficiently refined for the woman who was to be his wife, and sufficiently reasonable to insure prosperity.

    Mark Twain: A Biography 2003

  • After talking the whole matter over frankly with Uncle John, Austin had returned to his boarding-place in the home of Harry Coles and told Harry and his wife his new plans.

    The Hero of Hill House Mabel Hale

  • Going to town he obtained a boarding-place and settled down to work.

    The Hero of Hill House Mabel Hale

  • Shifting his boarding-place each Saturday Archie came to know the settlers intimately, and perceived how little outside their daily toil there was to engage their minds.

    The Narrative of Gordon Sellar Who Emigrated to Canada in 1825 Gordon Sellar

  • Paul, and promised to look out for them in Philadelphia, secure a pleasant boarding-place for them, and see that they got into the best schools in the city.

    Derrick Sterling A Story of the Mines Kirk Monroe

  • The doctor of course fell readily in with the idea, and said he would not go down town this time to see if there were any orders: if anybody wanted him it was generally known that if he was not in his office he was at his boarding-place.

    Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 26, August, 1880 of Popular Literature and Science Various

  • Both Mr. and Mrs. McClain gave the boys an urgent invitation to make their house their home, at least until they selected a boarding-place, and were greatly disappointed to learn that this was already provided for them.

    Derrick Sterling A Story of the Mines Kirk Monroe

  • These she despatched speedily, with the aid of a typewriter; but the fourth she wrote with her own hand, for it was in answer to one from an orphan girl who was coming to New York in search of work, and who desired to be put in the way of finding a safe boarding-place.

    Flint His Faults, His Friendships and His Fortunes Maud Wilder Goodwin

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