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“They sat on the boarding house porch and saw the sun plunge into the same crack in the earth from which the night emerged.”

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Book:Their Eyes Were Watching God

Source: Their Eyes Were Watching God

“But this is predicated upon the man's becoming in very fact an American and nothing but an American. If he tries to keep segregated with men of his own origin and separated from the rest of America, then he isn't doing his part as an American. There can be no divided allegiance here. . . We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language, for we intend to see that the crucible turns our people out as Americans, of American nationality, and not as dwellers in a polyglot boarding-house; and we have room for but one soul loyalty, and that is loyalty to the American people.”

Source: Theodore Roosevelt Cyclopedia

“We have room but for one Language here and that is the English Language, for we intend to see that the crucible turns our people out as Americans of American nationality and not as dwellers in a polyglot boarding-house.”

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Book:Letters: The days of Armageddon, 1909-1914

Source: Letters: The days of Armageddon, 1909-1914

“The camel is an ugly animal, seen from above. Its shoulders slope formless like a sack, its silly little ears and fluff of bleached curls behind them have a respectable, boarding-house look, like some faded neatness that dresses for propriety but never dressed for love.”

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Book:A Winter in Arabia: A Journey Through Yemen

Source: A Winter in Arabia: A Journey Through Yemen

“Any two meals at a boarding-house are together less than two square meals.”

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Book:Literary Lapses

Source: Literary Lapses

“It is rarely [Americans] dine in society, except in taverns and boarding-houses. Then they eat with the greatest possible rapidity, and in total silence.”

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Book:Domestic Manners of the Americans

Source: Domestic Manners of the Americans

“Nobody shoulders a rifle in defense of a boarding house.”

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Author:Bret Harte

“We will have to make new arrangements, or revive bygone ones. We may, for another example, see the return of the boarding house.”

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Author:James Howard Kunstler

“My maternal grandma was a tough, tough lady and a stern woman, who lost her husband young and raised six kids by herself. She lived in a mining community in Upstate New York and ran a boarding house for miners. She took care of an entire family and miners who lived in the house as well.”

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Author:Steve Carell

“They cut us up like boarding house pie. And that's real small pieces.”

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Author:Darrell Royal

“The landlady of a boarding-house is a parallelogram - that is, an oblong angular figure, which cannot be described, but which is equal to anything”

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Author:Stephen Leacock