1 A man named Klipspringer was there so often and so long that he became known as "the boarder"--I doubt if he had any other home.
2 Miss Shepherd is a boarder at the Misses Nettingalls' establishment.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContext Highlight In CHAPTER 18. A RETROSPECT 3 In the middle of the hall the prefect of the college sodality was speaking earnestly, in a soft querulous voice, with a boarder.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James JoyceContext Highlight In Chapter 5 4 There is very little amusement in the cloister, and the good superior was eager to make the acquaintance of her new boarder.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In 61 THE CARMELITE CONVENT AT BETHUNE 5 My dear, I do hate to tell you this but--Mrs. Elsing calls them 'paying guests' but," Pitty dropped her voice, "they are really nothing at all except boarders.'
6 I only wish we'd had 'paying guests' at Tara for the last year instead of free boarders.'
7 But though the other boarders kept coming in by ones, twos, and threes, and going to bed, yet no sign of my harpooneer.
8 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.
9 It was a standing jest of the boarders that Aniele cleaned house by letting the chickens loose in the rooms.
10 Jurgis went without a word, and, stepping over half a dozen sleeping boarders in the next room, ascended the ladder.