Citations:boarders

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English citations of boarders

1851
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  • 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick:
    The bar-room was now full of the boarders who had been dropping in the night previous, and whom I had not as yet had a good look at.
  • 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick:
    The grinning landlord, as well as the boarders, seemed amazingly tickled at the sudden friendship which had sprung up between me and Queequeg — especially as Peter Coffin's cock and bull stories about him had previously so much alarmed me concerning the very person whom I now companied with.