| 单词 | rent |
| 例句 | A woman whose wages she paid, whose rent she had subsidized, whose daughter spent hours and hours under this very roof every single day. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Mrs. Malloy says, “It’s a shame all of these people are crowded into these blocks. The rent is too high and the space is too small.” Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z “I just left the baskets on the doorstep and ran. I ran all the way to the river and rented a sampan to take me across. Then I walked from the Bund.” Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Will she be able to find a home she can afford in-stead of spending five figures in rent each year? Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z “I could be persuaded to rent it if anything turned up.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z He refused to give back any money, but when she didn’t leave, he offered a compromise: he would take a load of her possessions to the prairie for the rent money. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z The big problem with this place, though, is the rent, which at $675 a month is well beyond my reach. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Our idea of a splurge was eating out at Burger King and renting a video. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z He rented a large Afghan banquet hall in Fremont—the man who owned it knew him from Kabul and gave him a substantial discount. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z On that foggy Friday morning, six of them were available for rent. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z I was working full-time, but it didn’t pay enough for both rent and food. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Her face gets tight and she says, Is there anything else your lordship would like this day? and he laughs, Woman’s work, Angela, woman’s work and free rent. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z The innkeeper agreed to give them room and board and to forgive the rent on the stable space in exchange for the donkey. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z After the movie he rented was over, and he left, my sister gave me the tape. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z “I was thinking next year we might do a Gone With the Wind theme for the Benefit,” Hilly says, “maybe rent the old Fairview Mansion?” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z One of the three shops it contained was for rent and another was an all-night restaurant approached by a trail of ashes; the third was a garage--Repairs. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z The movie we rented, Blade Runner, was an old one. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z Their teams fall back to check the perimeter—they’re renting out the place next door for added privacy and the obligatory security presence. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z The night was dark with occasional gleams of moonlight between the rents of the heavy clouds that scudded across the sky. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z In this way, our grandparents sold their land and then, forever after, paid the mestizos half their harvest to rent what was once theirs. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The bills were crisp and fresh and I tried to imagine Mary's surprise when I paid her all my back rent and board. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z She squints at me in disbelief: “And where am I supposed to get a month’s rent and a month’s deposit for an apartment?” Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z He packed up his satchel and leaned the debris back up against the anchor, to screen the rent from sight. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z They, well actually, Mom tells us he’ll be renting a studio apartment by the week until they can work out some issues they’re having. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z They hurried to Nielsen’s rented room and went inside to talk. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z A male physician who for a time had rented an office in the castle and who had befriended Holmes—they were seen together often—also had decamped, with no word to anyone. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z “That house stood empty for nearly a year after the last family moved away. It was only rented a few weeks ago.” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Marcus was saving up to be able to rent his own apartment. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z I needed money for rent, so I got a job as a janitor for the engineering building. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Something in Alpert was fulfilled in knowing that I would thereafter buy a television or a car or rent a hotel room in New York armed with the knowledge he had given me. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z In Paris it costs as much to rent a movie as it does to go to the theater. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z Waiting for them were four carnival-sized rented tents, pitched in a black farmer’s field. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z Between my two jobs, I was earning approximately $300 a week after taxes and paying $480 a month in rent, or a manageable 40 percent of my earnings. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z A quick investigation of other neighborhoods around the city turned up all sorts of apartments and houses for rent or sale. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z The whole restaurant is rented out for the party, and almost every person in the room is a relative of the Matsumoto family. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z If I lived frugally, I would have enough to move out of the stacks and rent a small efficiency apartment somewhere. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z “Where you are undoubtedly studying art history, women’s studies, and probably casting your own bronzes. And you probably work in a coffee house to help cover the rent.” American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z A farm only a few hours away rented out ponies dressed as unicorns for birthday parties and other events. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z Dr. Roland was willing to keep me on, though at a salary that wouldn’t cover a decent rent. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z To help alleviate the costs for beginners or for kids whose parents weren’t willing or able to purchase fencing equipment, our high school had equipment for rent, like jackets, knickers, and lames. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z My parents were hoping to make enough money to pay some back rent and maybe the water bill, too. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z He gave McCandless em-ployment at the grain elevator and rented him a cheap room in one of the two houses he owned. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z He had also never rented a car before stepping into the dark green Ford Taurus and taking the entrance ramp onto the interstate. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z The rent man says, Dear God in heaven, this beats Banagher, this takes the bloody biscuit, this is goin’ beyond the beyonds. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z And some states deny representation to impoverished defendants on the theory that somehow they should be able to pay for a lawyer, even though they are scarcely able to pay for food or rent. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z She finds a room to rent in a trailer home for just $150 a month—half of what the small garage cost her in Los Angeles. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z But I’m missing credit payments left and right, and I still have to make rent, so I catch a slave at the Parker House, a big restaurant downtown. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z They rented a hotel room in Santa Cruz, and my sister drove down from college to spend the weekend there with me. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z The Warden found enough sales work to afford to rent a house in Birmingham, manage the bills, and keep his family happy. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z To tell you the truth, I was just watching the movie he had rented, so I wasn’t paying very close attention to their fight. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z In one such case, the manager of a project grew suspicious when she saw a truck parked outside a unit rented by a young single mother. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z ‘Tou, Julio, think small! You live small and you’ll die small! Always paying rent because you never thought big. Like most of the people in this neighborhood you think that things are impossible!” Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z She rents a garage— really a converted single carport. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z Her womb was not an apartment for rent. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z ‘So it’s true? How are you bringing it? Did you rent a van or something?’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z Once there, he became so feeble and frail that he could barely leave the villa they had rented. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z “So if you want, they made a movie out of that video game or we could rent something online.” Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z No longer able to afford rent for her shack, Granny moved from Fifteenth Avenue to a smaller shack on Eighth Ave- nue. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z “I think black is good. And you can wear a suit. You don’t have to rent a tux.” Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z From his old connections in the rum-running business he rented a slot machine and ordered a week’s supply of beer and whiskey. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z We rented a car and six hours later entered Palmyra. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z “I gave you a couple of weeks for the rest of last month’s rent, and I’m still waiting on that,” she says. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z Last time Mama took out a loan, she had to use bill money to pay it back and we almost got kicked out of our apartment for missing rent. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z “And I rented a car. Everything else anyone could possibly need for a weekend away is in this bag.” Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z Driving into town in my rented car, I saw no obvious signs that Caldwell had ever prospered. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I bought you a new outfit just this month, I give you twenty francs a day, I pay your rent, and what do you do? The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z There weren’t no TVs then and even movies we rent so common. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z We had to take money from our savings to pay the rent. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z “On time, just like an automobile. It’s like paying rent.” Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z We rented a tape player and some Congolese dance music tapes, and we had a party. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z Herringbones and madras and lamb’s wool and cashmere flashed past in a blur as hands and arms rent the air in a variety of graceful gestures. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Their cloaks were rent and tattered before they broke free at last. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z Software becomes something you rent, instead of something you own. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z There were also peddlers of sweets who took advantage of the lines to hawk their goods, and people who rented blankets for the long nighttime lines. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z They were being asked to move out of the house because the landlord had found somebody who would pay him twice or perhaps three times the rent. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z This was why people took bribes and asked for bribes; how else could anyone honestly pay two years’ rent in advance? Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z My house was at the very tip of the egg, only fifty yards from the Sound, and squeezed between two huge places that rented for twelve or fifteen thousand a season. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z “We can’t afford to rent an apartment right now. The rebuild is going to cost a fortune, and insurance only covers so much.” Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z They were too cheap to rent space at an RV park, so they parked along Highway One near the Indian Key Bridge and camped there for three nights. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z The payments, even if high and festooned with interest, are no worse than renting an apartment and fighting the owner for heat. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z In Cardiff, the shipbroking firm of ‘Aadnesen & Dahl’ was set up and a single room in Bute Street was rented as an office. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z During the first week of September, it was my family's habit to rent a beach house on Ocean Isle, a thin strip of land off the coast of North Carolina. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z She rented a house, cultivated a large garden, and plunged into the work of discovering and breeding caterpillars. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z They never knew about the two-room flats and sleeping rooms he rented, the weekly money orders sent home, the currency exchange. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z Built in 1929 by the Daughters of the American Revolution, it is a grand, historic venue, but one that I never liked for that purpose because it was just a rented space; it wasn’t theirs. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z He was told the great man was on vacation, staying at a beach house he rented from someone named Dr. Moore, in Patchogue. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z He paid the rent on her room and gave her twenty francs a day for food. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z The neighborhood sensed this, and in my dream the people were jumping, shaking, and jamming as if the rent weren’t due for six months. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z I asked him about some other house in the area where I might rent a bed. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z If you want to see a Boris Karloff movie, you have to rent it and watch it on a television set. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z He works and pays the rent and buys groceries and stuff. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z Their new, higher rents meant that they'd have to cut back on their spending, to work longer hours, or try to wean themselves off their costly psychiatrists. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z “Lemme guess. Adams suddenly decided he wants his back rent or out we go.” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “I rent the place. Split between us, it’ll only cost you thirty cents a week. Best part is, I can get you a job, too.” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z His mom kept it in her garage all these years, and a couple of weeks ago Dad drove it to Brooklyn in a rented van. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z All Nick’s father knew was that a guaranteed rent check was dead and buried. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z After she said she wanted Coney Island and rent parties and more of Mexico. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Black dropped by Gold’s rented room often to lecture his new friend about Communism and the Soviet Union. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Our rent money had been in that roll, as well as the money we had planned to use for renting a wagon and a team of horses. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z We'd empty a place of half its possessions and listen to the details as we drove the former tenant to a quickly rented storage space. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z He was kind, especially toward children, but that wouldn’t cover the rent. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z I informed him of my employment at Faneuil Hall, and that it should result in a small sum sufficient to carry our rent, with, however, no excess. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z Although in the United States the women struggle to pay rent and eat, in the imaginations of their children back home they become deliverance itself, the answer to every problem. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z It sat among the pine trees on a lot Henri rented for five dollars a year. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Grace Church is nothing but a basement rented from the bigger church with white people upstairs. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z "I mean, it's way too late to rent a tux anyways." Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z Probably looking at studio apartments to rent for herself. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z She moved our things out of storage into a plywood cabin on the piney outskirts of town, which she rented on the strength of a tiny legacy from Grandfather Wharton. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z If Kramer tells his landlord he’s presently sending his rent, does that mean . . . uh . . . the check is in the mail, or the check really is in the mail? Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z He doesn’t care that we had to sleep on the streets because he couldn’t pay rent for the hotels we were living out of. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z Hundreds of thousands of people rented space in warehouses and other storage facilities, attempting to stock up, until a judge ruled that all liquor stored outside the home broke the law. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z He’ll say they have kids or rent due or something else. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z “You rent by the hour, or what?” she asks, her dark eyes narrowing. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z Two days later, Reggie went missing, apparently having wormed his bulky body through a tiny rent in the corner of the pen. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z We live on the second floor of ours, above old Mr. and Mrs. Langone, for a good rent, Ma says, but the Cambis own their entire building, which, they said, was why they stayed. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z He had rented them a shack, and had just left the hostel to live with them under the same roof, when the summons came. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z The porter actually was passing out pillows to rent. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I had rented a cabin not nearly as comfortable as the one I carried with me, and once installed I had interfered in a matter that was none of my business. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z The rent was due Friday mornings on the ledge above the piano keys. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z There was a six-chair barbershop, where civic leaders were mummified in hot towels; and bathtubs for rent; and elevator banks lit by translucent egg-shaped marble lamps. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z “This is a rented car,” Abby said tightly, hunting in her purse for the license. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z George Pullman continued to cut jobs and wages without reducing rents, even though his company’s treasury was flush with over $60 million in cash. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Instead of renting an apartment of their own, they spend eight months with their various relatives, shuttling from home to home. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z My grandmother was a part of this hardscrabble crowd: she had rented a three-room flat on Hayat Khan Lane, just a short walk from the station. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Out of sight and shot they flew, and yet were ever present, and their deadly voices rent the air. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z The house where he lived was squared into four rooms and the rent was a dollar fifty per person. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z The unearthly, discordant wail of a welcoming Siamese rent the air. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z I wonder if we could rent one for the holidays. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z A glance toward the observation pavilion at the edge of the practice ground reveals why we’re being worked like rented girls. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z Ifemelu was about to sign a lease—if saving money meant living with mice, then so be it—when Ginika’s friend told them of a room for rent, a great deal, as college life went. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z In fact, Bobby’s rent and other basic needs were being paid for by his mother’s Social Security checks. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z You could rent by the minute, or pay a flat hourly rate. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z And if the applicant didn’t own any land, the city would rent ground on Michigan Avenue for temporary structures. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z Data on weekly income, what they paid in rent, in utilities, if they were on public assistance, how long. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z "Besides, the rent's too steep for a secretary's salary. Believe me, you get the same luxuries here at a third of the price." The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z She continues checking out my books while she tells the person on the phone about how to rent a movie from the library online. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z The steely-haired landlady helped them move in, and a couple of months later, when they fell behind on their rent, she put their belongings on the street and padlocked their room. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z “Once I visit old country. I pay man to do for house. But he was bad. He steal rent. Now can never go back again.” In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z “It’s rent for two years, Brother,” she said, with an embarrassed casualness, and then made a joke about the hole in his singlet. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z I called him from various pay- phones in Flushing or from the flat in Manhattan our firm rented. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z The saving to Lee Chong in cans of beans and tomatoes and milk and watermelons more than paid the rent. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Zita couldn’t figure out who was paying his rent, minimal though it was. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z “Because you’re going to find a way to magically lower the rent? And why are you even here? This isn’t your business.” The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z She almost apologized to the tenants the first time she collected the rents. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z Learning that the house he coveted was un available for rent but up for sale, he bought it on the spot. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The dole is nineteen shillings and sixpence a week, the rent is six and six, and that leaves thirteen shillings to feed and clothe five people and keep us warm in the winter. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z Not far outside of Bangor I stopped at an auto court and rented a room. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z I could still give the money I won to Daddy to help with the rent. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z It seemed an excellent deal—just a few hours of work per day for the equivalent of their rent—but Pearl was displeased. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Rocky rented me a room on 122nd near Seventh so I wouldn’t have to make that long trip to my grandmother’s house in the Bronx. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z She talked about what a long drive they had tomorrow and how her parents had rented a van. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z "She allowed me to stay on after I was unable to pay my rent." Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z After a short spell in a Holiday Inn, I find a house I can rent, on the rise behind Kitsilano Beach, one of those toytown houses that are bigger inside than they look. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z The house we rented had been built by a mining company. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z Aunt Maggie had now rented an apartment in which I shared a rear room. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z I couldn’t afford half the rent, I told him, and I wouldn’t live there unless I could pay my own way. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z “I rent a room upstairs,” he explained, searching his pockets. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z But the rent would be higher and so Theo needs a raise. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z And then, without warning, the silence was rent by a voice unlike any they had heard in the wood; and it uttered, not a panicked shout, but what sounded like a spell. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z Even the lunatic project of renting the room upstairs flashed momentarily through his mind again. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z And Mister Singer, who paid his rent very prompt. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z “It might be easier to rent a team of horses and a wagon from a demon,” I warned. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z “Your rent is four dollars a month, Mrs. Bains. You two months behind already.” Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z They’re mammoth filing cabinets of human lives, like bees in a honeycomb, crowded and angry at paying rent for boxes that resemble prison cells. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z I realized that Fito was concerned that he’d scared me away and that if he had, he would lose out on the rent he would be getting from us. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z "I coach because I love it. But it don't pay the rent. Being a cabdriver does." Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z The concierge gave Jule the phone number of a guy with a boat for rent. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z “I bought seven tickets and rented six strangers and a minivan for the night.” Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Vendors rented space on the curb before a store and stretched a rope from pole to pole and leaned the trees against it. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Liston finally had managed to rent a big, fine house over in a rich, wall- to-wall white section. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z A good part of the enthusiasm with which he collected his father’s rents was because of the time it gave him to visit the wine house and, hopefully, find Hagar there. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z He would rent a car, devour the surrounding towns, explore the coast, visit famed mosques, meet women who would beg him to stay. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z The rent is already paid till the end of the month and he has friends, he said. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z We rented a cabin with a kitchenette and passed our days jumping in and out of the water. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Nothing here belongs to us, just whoever pays the rent. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z Her parents had promised they could go get ice cream, rent a video, and sleep as late as they wanted the next morning. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The engine chugged through the twilight, moving down the road much more quickly than the rented carriages we’d taken to Baltimore. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z She remembered what her mother said the day Johnny, husband #3, moved the rest of his guitar collection into the rented U-Haul and drove it away to live with a Hooters waitress named Fragile. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z I liked our little rented house, but Lynn always told me I would love our very own house. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z Or at least I cook and Miss Celia fidgets, looking more like a five-year-old than the rich lady paying my rent. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z May I ask why you don’t charge them less rent for fire-traps and check that against your charity budget?” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z Meggie and her mother stayed in the village while Mo and Elinor went in the taxi to the nearest town, and came back a few hours later driving the two small buses they had rented. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z We live on the top floor of a five-story walk-up we rent from an old lady named Dona Petra all the way on the “other” side of Broadway. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z Frog did not see it, but those who did claimed Cleon’s copper armor rent like silk, and from within came an awful stench and a hundred wriggling grave worms. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Gerald races alongside the rented moving truck as we pull away, waving and shouting, forgetting any Baba-terror in the agony of farewell. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z “The military hospitals still pay. Not that my pay will be enough for the rent, sha.” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Usually it was preempted by the boy whose father rented the store on the ground floor. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Mom says the only reason she has to work so hard in the first place is because our rent keeps going up. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z “I only rent rooms to boys from Harvard or Tech!” Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z Chloe’s brother, Hunter, is paid a little for working part-time at the rendering plant, but the Marshes have told us they’re not giving us any of his wages in rent. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z After a long day of shooting, Phil and Gay went to a meeting while Josh and I rented recumbent bikes on the beach. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z I could live with her, she said, if I got a job and chipped in on the rent. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z She reasoned, perhaps, that he did not want to pay the exorbitant rents that everyone was charging now that the world’s fair was under way. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z He had never seen Mr. Dalton until he had come to work for him; his mother always took the rent to the real estate office. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z Her sneakers were plain white, but I bet they cost more than our monthly rent. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z Then the buildings grow dark and a kind of decay sets in; poorer people move in as the rents fall, and small fringe businesses take the place of once flowering establishments. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Franz drove Alex the rest of the way, chatted with him there for a while, and then returned to town, where he lived alone, rent free, in re-turn for managing a ramshackle apartment building. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z She would leave the knife sunk in his chest and then search his drawers for his bundle of one-hundred-dollar bills, so that she could pay her rent and her tuition. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z He scraped together some money to rent a studio. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z He simply collected five times the normal rent for his three rooms. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z While I’m thinking, Ms. Parker adds, “I have some older ones you can borrow for free if you want to try them out before renting.” Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z He rented a car and drove the thirty miles from the airport to Silver Spring. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z “Sorry,” the man said, “we rent them quarterly.” From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z Members of a local secondary school marching band, wearing rented tuxedoes and vintage top hats, practised a piece of the Mozart requiem, and children were given bouquets of flowers to carry. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z Ugwu was certain that Professor Achara had fooled Master into renting the house; there was something wily in the man’s bulging eyes. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z The next day, when Abby Tedesky emerged—fresh from a shower and dressed to beat the band—to start her day, there was no air in the rented car’s tires. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Our building, owned by Indians, was one of the few places where Africans could rent offices in the city. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z No rent and what am I to tell Sir Vincent below in the office? Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z My debts and rent were paid and my papers in my hieb-pocket; shirtless I left the island in the Markets, and went with Yegey back among the houses of the powerful. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z “The cost of fertilizer, the cost of renting the farmland, the rent on this house, bad crops for a few years.” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z She was grateful to him, this man who rented a tiny room from her father, who ate with a knife and did not even own a pair of dress shoes. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z Ty'ree had just cashed his check from the publishing company where he worked part-time, and Mama was filling out a money order for the rent. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z But he thought a sister who gave me a “pad,” not charging me rent, not even running me out to find “some slave,” couldn’t be all bad. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z She strode up to it as if she were coming to collect the rent and knocked hard, twice. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z The apartment that Fenoglio rented to tourists was only two streets away from his own house. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z I had rented a room at an inn near Imre’s docks. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z The researchers had treated several homes to varying degrees, then encouraged landlords to rent those homes to families with children so they could then monitor the children’s lead levels. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z They had often talked of a deep-sea-fishing boat, which they would buy, man themselves, and rent to vacationers—this though neither had ever skippered a canoe or hooked a guppy. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z Nonpeople rented for a few hours, a few days, a few weeks. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z But what they have in greater measure than their professional counterparts is time, because they don’t have to pay their actors or rent rehearsal space. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z Great rents had opened in the earth, swallowing palaces, temples, entire towns. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z They finally found a dingy room in a building downtown, rented it for eighteen dollars a week, and immediately went out looking for work. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Many Rio residents left the city during the games and rented out their homes for more reasonable rates than the hotels charged. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z Mami still rents movies for us at the supermarket since it’s cheap and our internet is slow. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z The apartment is on the fourth floor, four rooms, and there’s a rented piano in it. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z Immediately following marriage they rented a shack in one of the squalid yards of the ghetto. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z One thing was for sure: One way or another, if my ’rents didn’t veto the entire shebang, it was going to be important. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z A week later, Ellsberg landed at night in Los Angeles and rented a green Mustang convertible. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z “But you’ll be renting, so of course you get all the benefits with none of the burden,” she added with a laugh. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z There was a payphone set in the wall of the entryway, as you went in, below a notice board with rooms to rent, and puppies and kittens in need of good homes. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z The rent was high for this matchbox and Blanca and I’d had our tuition raised last semester because of the new governor. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z My ’rents wouldn’t be getting the dreaded phone call from Mrs. Galley. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z “They treat me very well. And I don’t know how I go about it. Sometimes I even have to rent a hall and advertise, sometimes I speak to the principal of the high school.” Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z “I’ve got a bed open and half the rent to account for.” X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z “Yet such was the contract, else the land would not have been rented to you.” Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z As I relaxed my hands and sighed, the white mist and the silence that was part of it was shattered suddenly, was rent in two by an explosion that shook the window where we stood. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z Hazleton had been renting the monkey house from a commercial landlord. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z In the summer of 1838, in his rented rooms on Great Marlborough Street, London, Charles Darwin drew a line down the middle of a piece of scrap paper. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z After sleeping on the floor of a Baton Rouge mosque for that first week, he and his wife had rented an apartment for the month, and were living there. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z “It’s such a bother renting a place in the city,” she says. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z He was renting a town house in a luxury condo complex down by the Hudson River, just south of the George Washington Bridge, where Nicole and I ran and hiked. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z They were thinking of places we could go if we couldn’t pay the rent. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Friday morning, when my first week’s rent was due, I went to the piano in the parlor to place my money on the ledge. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z Enrique is struggling financially Fed up with the cramped conditions in his mother’s apartment and their constant fights, yearning for some scrap of privacy, he has moved out and rented a bedroom in a trailer. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z We went to Aunt Cleo’s address and found that she was living in a rented room. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Our house was rented; the school building was, too. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z “Mama says our lease is only good until the end of the year. He’s allowed to rent to someone else if he wants.” The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z If traveling there directly appeared too risky, he could rent a small private plane somewhere in Hungary, or even Yugoslavia, and fly to Greece or Egypt and then to Manila. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z “One day when I own this place, we could turn these into offices and rent them out,” Frankie said as we passed two doorless chambers. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z “I can hardly afford rent as it is.” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z What if the people in Maria's building didn't sell 1279 Madison Street to Maria's parents and our landlord told my mom that he couldn't rent 1283 to someone who already had four children. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z The pair informed the family that they had come for the rent. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z All I could think about was the guys back home, guys I played with, guys who didn't make it to college, or who did but struggled to make rent while there. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z In 1864, Mary Surratt, under a cloud of suspicion over her husband’s loyalty to the Union, had moved her family to her Washington, D.C., boardinghouse and rented the tavern to John Lloyd. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z And where could you rent such a comfortable ground-floor apartment with a place for your car outside the door? Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z He is concerned about Herold, who rented a horse from him earlier that day and is long overdue. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z There is a sick, reactionary villain in the script, an Irish landlord who refuses to rent to the couple, who by this time have been married in this subdued Ethical Culture ceremony. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z That night in my rented room, while letting the hot water run over my can of pork and beans in the sink, I opened A Book of Prefaces and began to read. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Money, rent, jobs were not a concern; she did not think about these things in her real life, so they did not appear in her fantasy life either. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z “She says feisty people make good workers and that we have to pay her rent.” Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z When their father died they rented out the land, but their mother would not budge from the old place. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z If he was really going to attend the university, he was going to need to scrape together enough money for rent and books and tuition. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Most of them had joined the Varsity Boat Club and lived in the club’s rented house on Seventeenth Avenue, a block north of the campus, though joe remained in the basement of the YMCA. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z After he left, Ifemelu’s father said, “What ignominy. To ask us for two years’ rent. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z The sum in the drawer is piling up but at the present rate of accumulation will be more than $100 short of my rent when the end of the month comes around. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z After four months of sharing his small apartment with his brother, Theo decides to rent a larger one. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z New work shoes, some savings, or a little something extra to help my auntie with rent. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z “She heard me tell her brother. She knows she is to pay Hector and her rent.” Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z In a little while, he returned to his alley stable where he had left his rented horse, a bay mare. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z I was down to a day and a half a week when Valencia called a mover to cart a load of furniture to an apartment she'd rented for one of the deadbeats. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z All we could return to is a rented, joint-family flat in the overcrowded city of Calcutta, where Ma's inability to have a son would be a constant subject of conversation for other women. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z The girls rented an apartment in Harvard Square. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z The cast and crew of Dog Squad rented two entire floors in a Millville hotel near the Four Paws Spa location. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z No white real estate man would rent a flat to a black man other than in the sections where it had been decided that black people might live. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z A place rented out for political meetings, weddings, or demonstrations by the occasional traveling clairvoyant? Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z He rented a room across the hall, contacted a fellow resistance fighter who worked for the telephone company, and arranged to listen in on Quisling’s phone line. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Katie told him in her new crisp hard way that it was janitor or no home, as it was harder and harder each month to get the rent money together. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z “I thought a house would be nice for a change. It’s furnished too. Had to give a deposit, plus first and last months’ rent for the year. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z And with the money from that, we’d pay our rent for the next month and hire another team of horses and fly at some county fair near here, and so on. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z He rented a room from a neighbor who knows the exact cost of her discretion. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z A hearty cheer rent the air as the Redwall defenders broke cover to survey their handiwork. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z After paying their rent, there was little left to eat on. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Then it was rent by a sound so raw, so painful, that my nerves began screaming in response. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z Who is more blameworthy: the young black kid who hustles on the street corner, selling weed to help his momma pay the rent? The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z She wrote the check for two years’ rent. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z If you found one, it was hard to get access to it; if you managed to get access, renting time on it cost a fortune. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z “How much do you have saved up for rent?” The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z And she took their ragged clothes and with thread she herself spun on a bamboo spindle from a wad of cotton she mended and contrived to cover the rents in their winter clothes. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z Worst of all, she told them, she was being evicted for falling a month behind on the rent and had nowhere else to go. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z The problem of rents is easy for a noneconomist, even a sparsely educated low-wage worker, to grasp: it’s the market, stupid. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Those rental agents who are kind enough to talk to me all recommend the same thing: find a motel that rents by the week and stay there until something opens up. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Should he try to rent a car or borrow the preacher’s? Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z He couldn’t afford rent, so he slept most nights on a bench on Federal Hill in downtown Baltimore, or on the steps of a church across the street from his father’s house. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z “I know her because her family rents from our family.” Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Here, a black man pocketed Ann Atwater's money for that pitiful shack—and threatened to toss her family into the street because she had trouble making the rent. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Later he began to miss days at work and frequently did not have his rent money. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z We had a nice house with cheap rent. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Johnny paid the midwife and gave the landlord the next month’s rent. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z The rest of the African areas were municipal townships containing matchbox houses for which the residents paid rent to the Johannesburg City Council. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z And these houses loomed like hothouse sunflowers among the rows of weeds that were the rented houses. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z “Ah, yes,” he said, mounting the steps, “they all seem like real nice boys when they pay their rent.” Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z Storey might well have given up entirely, except that all around him he saw fellow newspapermen scrambling to rent space and find type and paper. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z Katie and Johnny kept the cellar, halls, the roof, and the sidewalk before the house spotlessly clean in return for their rent. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z The ladders belonged to an enterprising Sherpa from the village of Gorak Shep who turned a nice profit by renting them out each season. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z Years later, they purchased a house across the street and began to rent the blue and green houses to other families. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z It was enough to rent a video and have a late night at someone's house. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z My friend Jelani, who came up the same as me, once said that he used to think of traveling as a pointless luxury, like blowing the rent check on a pink suit. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z She had come to Chicago for the duration of the fair and was renting a mansion near the mayor’s. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z I was out of money; I couldn’t pay rent. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z If I had stayed until June 2000 I would have faced the Blue Haven’s summer rent of $390 a week, which would of course have been out of the question. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Sweat a little, barf a little, lie in bed watching videos for a few days while the ’rents wait on you hand and foot — not a bad deal, overall. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z “Come down here,” he said, “and we’ll rent a hotel room.” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z Don’t know what Judd done with the meat—rented him a meat locker somewhere, maybe. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z I looked and knew the reason for the failure when I saw a deep rent right at the nearly invisible stripe of weld. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z The sixteen-page weekly paper set up its office in New York City in the same building where the Women’s Loyal National League had once rented space. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z He spends almost every night there, and during the day he sits in his rented flat or at the pub with a glass of wine and a journal and he writes about it. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z He uses it to rent a place to live and work in, a room and an alcove, with bright light from a large southern-facing window. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Or this one: He threatened to more than double her rent. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z After paying the rent and salaries, there was not much left for food, so we often had little for dinner. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Some summers there had been road trips with one or two Bengali families, in rented vans, going to Toronto or Atlanta or Chicago, places where they had other Bengali friends. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z The crisp crease of the rented tux pants seemed stranger than the broken room. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z In January, Hilario and Vivian Ortega, who live down the street from Celia, will defend themselves against charges that they have been illegally renting by the hour two rooms of their beachfront home. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z The rent of our new home was seventeen shillings and sixpence per month. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z He had no idea how they’d pay the rent or buy food. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z Mami and I are walking along the crowded row of new bikes inside the shop while the owner rents some beach cruisers at the register. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z Every year around Thanksgiving, he went hunting in West Virginia, where he and some buddies rented a house for the opening of the deer season. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z We are going to have to live with her mother until we have enough money to rent our own place. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z If you read the books at Grandpa Hong’s bookstall, you could rent sixty picture books for thirty fen. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z I could live there and pay her rent. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z Joe and Joyce were among the first of those to rent a canoe. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z However, in American tournaments, where hotel ballrooms are rented and contracted for a specified period and players have made arrangements for flights home, it’s necessary to apply a tie-breaking system to determine the winner. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z "She allowed me to stay on after I was unable to pay my rent." Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Even there, though, the rents are right up at Key West levels— well over $500 for an efficiency. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Inability to pay rent forced us to move into a house perched atop high logs in a section of the town where flood waters came. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z “We like renting charters a lot better,” I say quickly. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z She did, however, still hand Alma a check nearly every week, trusting that she would use it for food or rent. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z They try to incorporate Gogol into similar plans; this summer, for example, they are thinking of renting a house on the coast of Brittany. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z We have taken in another family to help us pay the rent. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z So did his grip on my ankle and shirt, and in a burst I was out the door and running, my shirt rent down my back. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z That excuse was okay for me—-for the time being—so we rented a room in the Port Royal on 129th Street. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Then she begins: The waitress with the big fat hips who pays the rent with taxi tips . . . says nobody in town will kiss her on the lips because . . . because she looks like Christopher Columbus! The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z Well, why didn’t I check out the rents before I moved here, then? Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z There were the two beehives Onofre Martinez had built and which the one-armed man cared for, supplying the Blooms with honey as a kind of rent. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Her roommate, a male friend, has begun hitting on her, driving her nuts, but the rent would be impossible alone. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z White landlords let their apartment buildings fall into disrepair while they continued to raise the rents. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z I was hopeful, but I wasn’t stupid enough to try renting it again, even though I wanted to. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z “You have got money. I paid rent out of what you gave me and I bought some liquor. But the rest is there.” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z On the campus, students emerged from the mustiness of Suzzallo Library and the dankness of their rented rooms, blinked warily, and looked about for a place to stretch out on a patch of grass. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Holmes had used the name before, to rent a house in Burlington, Vermont. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Again their request was rejected on the grounds that the hall had a standing policy of not renting concert space to black artists. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z But they had kept the Winslow house, its rent paying for their care, and now Mrs. Richardson kept it, too, as a sentimental memory. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z His son belonged to him now and not to Ruth, and he was relieved at not having to walk all over town like a peddler collecting rents. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z The oarsmen rent the sea in mortal fear and my ship spurted out of range, far out from that deep canyon where the rest were lost. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z The crisscross metal fence around the apartment we rent sags in the middle from the weather, from the weight of too many kids leaning up against it, from the neglect of the owner. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z Howard Hunt had his wife call the Watergate Hotel to rent a banquet room for the night of May 26. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z End of story—at least if it’s a story about attempting to match earnings to rent. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Sadhu Kumar, who rents his extra bedroom to Dell, comes down with three computers. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z The three Dominicans, a husband and wife and their business partner, agreed because Bodega had twice helped them make their rent. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z The former principal of Nantucket High School, Paul Richards, and his wife, Martina, a nurse, moved last year to Needham, Massachusetts, after renting here for five years. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z Tenants, made jobless by the fever, ran out of rent money and were turned out of their homes. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z They named it the Mercury Theatre, inspired by a copy of The American Mercury magazine lying around Welles’s rented summer house. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z “Nothing. Other than we have to pay him rent,” I said, and moved my body away from her. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z She scraped her way through the first year with some money saved even after her rent was paid. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z They have tried different ways of dividing the bills, at one point splitting the $1,475 rent and sharing the utilities, at another point, one paying the rent and the other the utilities. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z We had two shanties in the backyard that my grandmother would rent out to migrants and seasonal workers. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z The custodian at the canoe house noted a sudden demand for canoes, all of them rented by boy-girl combinations. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Once a month, the black landlord rode around Hayti in his new car with the windows rolled up against the dust it kicked up, collecting rents and leaving behind waves of impotent rage. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z The boarder who rented the room was out for the evening, celebrating the end of the war. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z On long, lazy weekend afternoons, afternoons when the air was translucent and still and full of the smell of burning leaves, they rented canoes again and paddled around in Portage Bay. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Lefty had rented a limousine for the day, and opened the door for his wife and cousin. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z There were racially segregated tenements that never rented to blacks or Latinos. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z “Now I want all you hogs to look out the window and see if you can guess which house the Great Santini rented for his family.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Within a short while, though, the rent for the room became too much of a financial burden to carry. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z But Wang Lung would never talk of selling a foot of any piece, and he would only rent it for an agreed price for a year at a time. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z A month’s rent in the worst apartment in New York: $1,150. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z “We’ll give you the money to pay your rent, too. Call it a loan, a compensation.” Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z We were barely even allowed to rent this apartment. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z The crowds along Charlottenburger Chaussee were so thick that people in the back rows had to use rented periscopes to see what was happening up front. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z The New Dealers were fixing up falling-apart houses, to be rented out as guesthouses. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z Harriet rented a small frame house in the town and set to work to make a home. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z The next morning, after a good night’s sleep by all, Theo writes again: he decides they will rent that bigger apartment. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Mia correctly interpreted this as a question about rent and her ability to pay it. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z He still lives in New York, rents the apartment on Amsterdam Avenue. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z That and the money should make him rent out his bun compartment. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z I live in a shack that I rent cheaply. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z Baba tells us he's borrowed a car from another Bengali family who live in the building where he's rented a flat. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Bobby’s first apartment, a furnished sublet he rented for six months, had been ideal: It was downtown, had a bit of a view and a terrace, and he could walk quickly to stores and restaurants. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Aunt Cleo was living in a rented room and I invited her to share the apartment with me, my mother, and brother, and she consented. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z It got so bad that they had to be told who actually owned the property where vice was practiced, what the rents were and what little hardships might be the result of their closing. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z A grim-faced woman who lived there said that yes, he rented a room in the house. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z But they held on to those little yellow cards as though they meant something—laid them gently in the shoe box along with the rent receipts, marriage licenses, and expired factory identification badges. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z And he had heard it said that black people, even though they could not get good jobs, paid twice as much rent as whites for the same kind of flats. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z “We take in roomers to help out. We just simple people here. You can call this home, if you got a mind to. The rent’s three dollars.” Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z But within days of being together again in New Haven, in an apartment he’d rented on Howe Street with friends, they’d begun fighting, both admitting in the end that something had changed. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z When everything had been sold or given away, Milton drove my grandparents’ remaining belongings in a rented truck the twelve blocks to Seminole. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Downstairs from Meme’s is a basement apartment that Meme’s mother fixed up and rented to a Puerto Rican family. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z In September 1965, a white landlord named Abe Greenberg bought more than a score of properties in East Durham and promptly raised rents, although he had not made any improvements to the dilapidated houses. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z A pang of exquisite suffering—a throe of true despair—rent and heaved my heart. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z His wife regularly wrote him lengthy, urgent and impassioned letters requesting money for food, clothing, rent, medicine, school fees, books, seeds and money to repair broken ploughs and leaking roofs. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z He rented a sweet little brick house for her and then gave it to her. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z I’m sitting in front of the television at the Hotel Beverly, where my grandparents have been renting an apartment on the top floor. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z It wasn't what they imagined doing with their lives, but they needed an income to pay the rent and to save enough money to buy a house one day. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z You’re all right When this didn’t stop his wailing, and I knew the ’rents were about to come flying into the room any minute, I started to get a bit impatient. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z His parents do not find it strange that their son doesn’t date, does not rent a tuxedo for his junior prom. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z “You can rent as many as you like,” she said. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z What we didn’t tell the men was that we had not rented the house, after all. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z She didn’t want to be the roommate who had rent problems. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z “We are all going to Tai Lake. The family has rented a boat with a famous chef. And tonight at the ceremony you will see the Moon Lady.” The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Gomersindo Leyba said, “Knowing Bud, he probably rented his living room out at six dollars an hour to that state cop.” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “I just really need to rent that right now. I’ve got to get back home.” The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z Why? someone had scrawled in a blank space no advertiser had rented. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z I rented a room from Aunt Cleo’s landlady and decided to keep it until I got a job. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z He arrived in Chicago, and there, for no reason, rented a furnished room for a week, stayed in it for two days, went to Buffalo, changed his mind, and moved to Niagara Falls. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z “I sez, I don’t rent to no Chinks. So far’s I’m concerned they bring bugs.” Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z The Advisory Board meetings were perfunctory and bureaucratic, but the ANC meetings were lively with debate and discussion about Parliament, the pass laws, rents, bus fares — any subject under the sun that affected Africans. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z These loners have rented a tiny piece of land from the owner. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z She and two other girls from my college had rented a big apartment from four Harvard law students, and I'd been planning to move in with them when my writing course began. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z The building was a good start: a rented two-story Greek Revival house built in 1882, near the historic district called “Old Alabama Town.” Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z “I’ll just leave this and then rent more later,” I mumbled, my head down, putting the ten on the counter and walking as quickly as I could, without technically running, to the door. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z And she had arranged to rent a red palanquin to carry me from her neighbor’s house to the wedding ceremony. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Of course, the money ran out eventually, which meant rent couldn't get paid. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z “Looks like rent’s going to be late again this month.” Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z As if the blight was our fault and we wanted the crops to rot in the fields and had planned all along not to pay the rent to the lord of our cottage. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z We were on good terms with Mr. Richards, the landlord, so even if we had to have him come back the next week for the rent, he didn’t mind. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z Back in June, the two of them had been living together in a house Immie rented on the island of Martha’s Vineyard. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z To the left was the resort of Bray, a cheerful front of cafes and little shops that in a normal season would be renting out beach chairs and pedal bikes. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z “Actually, you could help me out if you moved in with me. I mean, that way I could use the five hundred dollars’ rent you paid to me . The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z It was still about three weeks ahead of the inauguration, which meant that we had to make temporary arrangements, renting rooms on the top floor of the Hay-Adams hotel in the center of the city. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z George offered Adam Trask a lift in his rented surrey, but Adam refused. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z But then with a piercing shriek that rent the evening air, the powerful locomotive set its brakes. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z When the space program began, women in the United States couldn't get credit cards, rent cars, or obtain loans to buy houses. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z Another way is to rent more farmland, maybe from your neighbor who has given up. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Well, sure, when he put it like that, I could see that I was never going to become a preteen real estate mogul if I wasted earnings by renting rather than buying. Lawn Boy Returns 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z And here it was late November, a year later, and we were riding over the pass in a rented Jeep to visit our husbands in prison. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “What are we doing next? We should rent a helicopter to fly us over the city.” Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z I rented the room under my new name and paid six months’ rent up front. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z We rented one half of a double corner house in front of which ran a stagnant ditch carrying sewage. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Roderigo rent his chains asunder manfully, and Hugo died in agonies of remorse and arsenic, with a wild, “Ha! Ha!” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z On Fridays I made sure to put the rent in her hands. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z "You can rent those darling little skating skirts," old Sally said. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z That day she went in only to ask for a loan, because the girls were getting behind with the rent. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z He paid the rent and was the father of her fifth child, Johnathan. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z A second contractor received the exclusive right to rent Kodaks to fair visitors, the Kodak being a new kind of portable camera that eliminated the need for lens and shutter adjustments. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z The rent will be ten pence a week.' Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z Now a golden sovereign for two nights was more than a fair rent, in the days when a farmworker might hope to make fifteen pounds in a good year. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z Now they wanted to rent an apartment smaller and cheaper but better situated and generally more practical than the present one, which Gregor had found. The Metamorphosis 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z And even if another cantaloupe truck miraculously appeared and drove us down there, Rosaleen and I would have to get jobs somewhere, rent a place to stay, and hope nobody asked any questions. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z X Dorian Greene turned one of his severe calling cards over and printed on the reverse side: “Stunning apartment for rent. Apply at 1A.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z For now we were getting by on Arturo’s paycheck week to week, which was just enough to cover rent and bus fare and food. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z His tenant’s grandmother or aunt or something had moved in there and the rent was long overdue. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z A funeral parlor was the only place large enough that Brother James X could afford to rent. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Their mother wanted to rent it, but she always asked for too much. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z Mice might as well pay rent around here. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z Landlords doubled their rents and still enjoyed a waiting list. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z His rented house has one room where he eats and sleeps, one kitchen, and—unbelievable—one bathroom inside. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z "Tell me, how much rent do you pay?" Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z The rains did not clear until that second week of September near the time when we had to pay our rent. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z We rented it from some shirttail cousin on my father’s side. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z Everything is set up, though, the rented thick-stemmed wineglasses, the bottles of mediocre hooch, the mineral water for teetotalers, because who would serve unadulterated chlorine from the tap? Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Two weeks later, Bobby, Eugene Torre, and the two bodyguards drove in a rented car to the border of Hungary, were asked for their passports, and without further delay were allowed to pass. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z "I need to tell my tenants where to send their rent." What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z “You rent a mountain cabin,” he said, “in an area still verdant. It’s rustic knotty pine with a huge fireplace.” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z We rented and moved into the same barrack we had lived in the previous year. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z And then, since he had gone mute again: “But he did say you were short on cash, that he had to pay the rent and stuff. Is that right?” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Under protest, he finally agreed to rent them a team of horses and a wagon, with his son Charlie acting as driver for the trip south. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Nobody was certain how many rooms Major de Coverley had rented, not even the stout black-bodiced woman in corsets on the first floor from whom he had rented them. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z He told me that West Indian Archie was sick, living up in a rented room in the Bronx. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z He had never been quite sure about Major de Coverley, either, who, when he was not away renting apartments or kidnaping foreign laborers, had nothing more pressing to do than pitch horseshoes. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z One shivering second of silence, the shock of the moment suspended: and then the tumult broke around Harry as the screams and the cheers and the roars of the watchers rent the air. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z With only two weeks’ rent money in their pockets, they tried their hands at whatever they could find. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z “I am young and able-bodied...together we can rent another piece of land...live as we did.” Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z The youngest Walker son rented out 8800 all through the eighties and nineties when Death claimed the lives of dealers and junkies alike. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z Katie looked around for a place where she could work for their rent. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z He was now smiling at me, bright-eyed, from his place at the altar, dressed in a rented tux and a buffed pair of new shoes. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Its per capita rate of violent crime made it the second most dangerous city in America, but its citizens still paid some of the highest rents in the country. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z I had gotten a job as a waitress, but Josie never charged me rent. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z During the match, whenever he won a point, whether through hitting a winner or through an error by his opponent, the minority of black spectators rent the stadium with clapping and cheering. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Here in the city, tuition, books, lectures, and rent had him subsisting on crusts for days on end. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z My dad’s trying to rent a car and Mom’s getting us all SIM cards for our phones. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z “And Kvothe had to eat, and rent a room, and buy more oats for his horse. So his gold was all used up by then. So he—” “What about the diamond?” the boy insisted. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z “He’s going to pay me back in a couple of weeks. Before our next rent check is due.” A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z One day when we were sitting on the porch, I asked Richard, “Is your car at home like the cars that you rent here?” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Root played impromptu recitals on a rented piano. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z “This table come with house when we rent. There are many table in America you can own. Many peanut butter. Akira will get sick of it, there is so much!” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z And there were the numerous white landlords who raised rents during the plague and even evicted tenants who could not afford the increases. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z The park men charge a small ground rent plus fees for water and electricity. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z “Well, you will have to pay me a week’s rent in advance. I don’t deal in small sums.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Anderson appeared at Armstrong High again in 1937, but as the demand for tickets to her performances continued to grow, Howard University rented the still larger downtown Rialto Theater for her 1938 concert. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z Absolutely nothing about any of it appealed to me—not slow dancing, not fast dancing, not the dresses, and definitely not the rented tuxedo. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z He writes again, asking for more money, asking if he should rent the bigger place, asking Theo to please write and say whether he’s received the drawings. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z He knew of an apartment for rent, ten dollars a month, on the third floor of a five-story tenement on Elizabeth Street. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z “Old spa towns have such character. Is it a large place your mother’s renting, Jason?” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z “Keeping herself in rent and hamburgers, I guess. That’s what I’m doing working at a warehouse.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z They had moved four times in the last five years because Monique forgot to pay the rent. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Holmes had rented a house at 305 Poplar Street, under the name “A. C. Hayes,” and had made a substantial advance payment. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z “I don’t need your permission to rent a room or do business in the street. Now get away from me or I’ll show you firsthand what sort of trouble my kind can be.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z He could no longer stand the rooms where Antonapoulos had lived, and he rented a place in a shambling boardinghouse not far from the center of the town. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z Sonia and Ben will rent a truck and take whatever furniture they have room for. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z After a year, a rent increase forced us to move to the Virginia Highlands section of the city, where we stayed for a year before another rent increase sent us to Midtown Atlanta. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z “Personal Best is good, but you need to rent Desert Hearts,” she told me. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z “Who care for house? No rent, my people no eat. So I stay. Like a watchdog with family away. Ten years now, I am watching. Ten years, without my Nonnie.” In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z He’s already renting an outside studio to work in; he has been since the previous spring. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Less than half, however, believed it was wrong for neighborhoods to refuse to rent or sell homes to black people or for social clubs to refuse to admit them. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z She asked me to help with the rent. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z “Your portion of the rent is twenty dollars.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z I don’t think Mama wanted anyone to know that she couldn’t pay the rent anymore. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z After we have the stuff in place, there are the rented trestle tables to be assembled for the bar, the hooch and eats to be bought. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z She was just a girl, and she shouldn’t have to worry about things like rent and recommendations from rich people and keeping a good name for herself. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z A few months ago, a new family, Samar’s family, rented the blue house. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z The landlord keeps on calling me and asking me if I have the money for rent. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z It was not actually at that moment, but at some time on the following day, that the idea of renting Mr. Charrington’s room had occurred to him. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z If Milkman got up early enough on Saturday morning, he could catch his friend before Guitar went roaming the streets and before he himself had to help Macon collect rents. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z His mother lived on the second floor and rented out the first floor to a button factory. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z And the old woman started up blinking and licking her dry lips, and she said, “I am not to open except to such as may rent the whole inner courts.” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z But it seemed most days we barely had enough money to pay the rent, let alone fly to Paradise. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z At the beginning of 1967 our rent was hiked; my father’s busfare was hiked; prices at the store were hiked; my father’s wage remained the same. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z When he saw the rent in the lead, the blood rushed to his face for an instant, but as quickly fell away again, so that he remained of a ghastly whiteness; he was still silent. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z “It’s when someone rents Bunny for an hour to put with their lady rabbit to get babies.” The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z She could ask Tommie if they could rent the spare bedroom in their house. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z Soon after they married and settled into a rented duplex in Shaker, Mr. Richardson started law school and Mrs. Richardson was offered a position as a junior reporter at the Sun Press. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z In the meantime, they saved, and scratched, and piled away what they could in the rented hovels, looking forward to the day of property. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z Even Jordan's party, the quartet from East Egg, were rent asunder by dissension. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z We load up the big minivan Dad rented, and we pile in for the drive. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z He could not be seen or touched or spoken to, and the room where they had spent so many hours had been rented to a girl who worked as a typist. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z In any case, Jule didn’t have to make excuses for not having the rent. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z At midnight, I can hear them shrieking at the creepy '80s slasher movie they rented. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z In the fall of 1950, Regina moved the family out of Manhattan and across the bridge to Brooklyn, where she rented an inexpensive apartment near the intersection of Union and Franklin streets. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z My mind kept replaying clips from all those slasher flicks I’d rented. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z “I would like to rent a post office box,” he declared. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z I remembered the countless meetings in living rooms where maybe seven would be a crowd; the gradually building, building—on up to renting folding chairs for dingy little storefronts which Muslims scrubbed to spotlessness. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z After several weeks, residents trusted Alston enough to whisper complaints about unfair treatment, high rents, and summary evictions. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z So our rent problem was taken care of. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z “I’ve been looking at our budget. I can’t make the numbers work. The discounted rent for my superintendent duties makes a huge difference.” The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z Without income we could no longer afford the rent for our dingy shack. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z At about the same time, a local neighborhood organization set up by Operation Breakthrough also demanded that the landlord lower rents or fix the houses. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Today the rent was due and she had no way to pay it. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z Trueba explained that he needed to rent a cart, but she appeared not to understand him and only stood there, hiding the children in her apron, with a vacant expression. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z We rented a car, and it took us more than two hours to get there, even though it wasn’t far away, because Mom kept stopping to go to the bathroom and wash her face. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z It widened and spread, a rent in the darkness of the earth and night, a ripping open of the fabric of the world. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z "But that measly little paycheck barely covered the rent." How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z “I do. But I have a mortgage to pay and it depends on collecting the rent.” The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z Returning to my own rented room seems too frightening, too lonely. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z I do not doubt that middle-class blacks need to remain watchful when they look for jobs or try to rent or when they travel to unfamiliar towns. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z At the time, Geyer wrote, “I was not able to appreciate the intense significance of the renting of the Poplar Street house and the delivery of a stove of such immense size.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z She insisted that they rent rooms above it. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z There were no sticks of incense now before this pair, nor had there been for many moons, and their paper clothes were tattered and showed their clay bodies through the rents. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z “Somebody rented the two rooms in the yellow house,” she said, saliva flying out from between her front teeth. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z She found a house where she would get rent free in return for keeping it clean. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z It was enough for the basics: rent, food, clothes. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z I wish it could be now, but Mom’s already brought home empty packing boxes and has started looking for a place to rent in Washington. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z Sure, it was a weekend, but the ad man offered to come in when they told him how many billboards they wanted to rent. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z I’ve always wanted to rent movies and watch them at home, like other kids. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z Felicia watched as the glittering scales of her rented dress clicked and scattered on the marble floor. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Mom and Dad made up the next day, and by late afternoon Mom was cutting Dad’s hair in the living room of the apartment we’d rented in Blythe. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z For some reason, if it was their lungs that made them quit, they were allowed to stay in Coalwood as long as they could afford the rent for their houses. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z “I can pawn it to help pay our rent.” Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z “Not to me\\ They pay rent to the South Side Real Estate Company.” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z “This is different. We aren’t being held for ransom. It’s more like paying rent. Yes, that’s it. Rent for use of the house and for food.” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z After a pause he said carefully, “You rent a mountain cabin.” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z We drove past the house where Dusty had grown up, the trailer Dusty and my mother had rented, and the apartment where Tommy died. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z Throughout Garfield's early years in Congress, the family lived in rented rooms in Washington, returning to their house in Hiram, Ohio, during Congressional holidays. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z I remember with what pleasure we rented some folding chairs. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z She could not go back to Baltimore—her condo was rented out and her furniture in storage—and so she went to Willow. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z The first night the visitors are on Water Island, I go for a walk so that I can see them in the house they rented behind the hill. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z Yet in many places it had crumbled away or was crossed by gaping rents. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z “So you took a one-bedroom apartment then. And may I ask about your monthly rent?” Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z It was a mansion, practically, so big that Grandma Smith had had two families living in it, both paying her rent. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z Others in the business keep clients in rented houses or hotel rooms. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z In the narrow bottle-crowded room that he rented on one side of the square, he lived several years off the hopelessly ill who, after having tried everything, consoled themselves with sugar pills. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z The tragically hip thing turns out to be failing to turn in your rented graduation robes on time. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z Trout lives in a rented basement in Ilium, about two miles from Billy’s nice white home. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z They would find an apartment for rent: usually a studio, sometimes an efficiency, whatever they could afford and wherever they could go month to month, for Mia did not like to be tied down. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Urvashi refused to rent space anywhere, because I have an image to maintain, and I’m not going to put my feet on a floor that’s been stained by other people’s shadows. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z With very few exceptions, Africans at the time did not enjoy private tide to land in South Africa but were tenants paying rent annually to the government. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The chauffeur was now talking to another guy in khakis and a polo shirt, probably his client who’d rented the car. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z As much as she hated to spend the money, on her first payday, Lyddie insisted on giving Betsy a full ten cents to help with Oliver’s rent. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z There’s always pot at Aaron’s house; he has a room with an entirely separate ventilation system and lockable door that his parents could rent out as another apartment. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z His family was way behind on rent and facing eviction from their apartment. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z When they arrived at his apartment, it was empty and a for rent sign was taped to the window. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z She didn’t get us back full-time until five years ago, after she got her job and started renting this place. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z Afterward they had to worry about rent every month instead of taxes. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z On the other side of the turnstiles, there are giant floaty tubes for rent. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z The campaign rented an RV for a few days in Iowa, so that we could do barnstorming tours of small towns, punctuated by rousing games of Uno between stops. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z I climbed out of the rig, collected my things, and returned the rented gear at the front desk. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z “Well, then you want to go to Knoxville and rent a car and drive up to Roanoke. That’s what you want to do.” A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z “Yes, good afternoon, madame. I am calling about the room for rent.” Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z There are giant rented speakers blasting a song I don’t recognize, but it has the most perfect thudding bass, like a heartbeat. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z On New Year’s Eve, after years in a modest rented town house, she and her husband moved into a new house that reminds her of the Brady Bunch home. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z Vacant since June 1940 while the Natural History Museum pays the rent. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z I’m not allowed to watch TV, although I am allowed to rent documentaries that are approved for me, and I can read anything I want. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z Dressed as Indians, they harassed the Van Rensselaer agents and the state militia when they came into the mountains to collect the rent. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Off we’d go, heading out into the desert in search of another house for rent in another little mining town. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z The six rooms in the house were always taken, but nobody ever paid the rent on time. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z A few days before Christmas the man from whom his grandfather rented the farm “turned us off the place,” the boy continued. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z Her sisters had all been enrolled at the neighborhood Catholic school only one block away from the house the Garcías had rented at the end of the summer. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z “I think I can say that the Thomas family pays rent to youY' “Indirectly, yes.” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z There are Memories of Keira and me celebrating our first night in the little studio we’d rented, and of me holding out my first check after my first successful bounty hunt. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z There were six of them, and they paid the largest share of the rent. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z “Why not? I chip in for the rent.” Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z So she decided to take off for Florida, where she had heard the rents were lower. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z It cost thousands of dollars, and his father barely made enough to pay for rent and food. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z I couldn’t afford to rent an apartment, and even if I could the only apartments for rent were in town. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z She rented a small house, bought a cookstove for it and delighted the girls with descriptions of life with the wonderful Golden Gray. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z He said he would rent out the farm, hire someone to care for the animals and the crops, and rent a house for us in Euclid. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z His mind goes back to a brightly lit space in the basement of a church his parents and their friends sometimes rented for especially large parties. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z I was renting the garage from a woman who had a daughter-in-law named Margaret. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z They wanted to know everything and Milkman found himself rattling off assets like an accountant, describing deals, total rents income, bank loans, and this new thing his father was looking into—the stock market. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z A few days later, with his mission burning inside him, Guiteau sat down in his rented room and wrote out a letter to the American people. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z After my mother used it to buy food and pay our rent and utilities, there was no money for breakfast tea, let alone alcohol. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z But the United States, for all its wealth, leaves its citizens to fend for themselves—facing market-based rents, for example, on their wages alone. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z The Audubon Ballroom, between Broadway and St. Nicholas Avenue, on the south side of West 166th Street, is a two-story building frequently rented for dances, organization functions, and other affairs. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Plus, since my apartment, though rented as “furnished,” contained almost no kitchen items when I moved in, I was forced to acquire my own inventory of spatula, can opener, “utility knife,” broom, etc., at Wal-Mart. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z A woman usually rents a white dress that's been worn hundreds of times. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z This shared philosophy, plus their mutual poverty, prompted them to rent the Cave together a year earlier. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z A few days later Miranda went to an Indian grocery in Central Square which also rented videos. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z The interview woman bids Dede farewell, and together they walk through the darkened garden to the side of the house where the rented Datsun is parked. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z All the way down in the car we rented with a driver, we were giddy with anticipation. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Between the two of us, we can manage to cover the rent. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z What money an African boxer earned was typically used on food, rent, clothing, and whatever was left went to boxing equipment and training. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z It could be the security deposit and a few months’ rent on an apartment. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z “I also want to rent a fat-pipe connection. I need to upload a large amount of data to my account.” Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z It rent Paris’ tunic, but did not wound him. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z I bought my textbooks, paid rent, and had money left over. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z I spent a good chunk of that August toiling in a rented conference room at a hotel in Washington, D.C., having been dispatched to help prepare a case. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Receipts from the morning alone exceeded what he needed to take in every day just to cover the $23,000 a month rent. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z “A lot of students didn’t return this year. Most had to move due to rent going up and stuff. But I’ll pass a note along.” Monday's Not Coming 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z The Elayn Hunt Correctional Center was renting space to warehouse these men, but otherwise made no claims to their welfare or rights. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z “So long as you aren’t going to farm your land, why don’t you rent it and move to the county seat—near our good public schools?” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z In public housing, electricity was included in your rent. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z The rent is paid up through the end of September, so as long as you're out before October 1, all's fine. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z She could not imagine calling Obinze to ask him for reduced rent in one of his properties. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z And so it was that the weekend that was to have been a watershed in Dedd’s life turned into a trip down memory lane in a rented boat. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The plan was for Hunt, Liddy, and the men from Miami to enjoy dinner in the rented room, lingering until late at night. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z “And he had such pretty taste, and had taken care of everything so well. I thought—I’ll rent it furnished, like a vacation rental. Then people can appreciate it.” Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z “It’s why no one ever wants the center unit. Workmen coming and going whenever and no second bath. But the rent’s considerably cheaper.” Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z So we had to rent a hall on the weekend, a place at the community center. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Christine commuted from Portsmouth for a short time before moving her family to Hampton after Sue Wilder tipped her off on a house for rent in her neighborhood. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z On the plantation of Edward Brodas, the slaves knew when the Georgia trader arrived in Cambridge, the nearest city, and rented a room in the tavern. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z Since there is no money coming into our family, my mom had to give up the apartment we rented. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z Some people even rented out their papers, for a dollar a day; one copy sold for an astounding forty dollars. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z Mr. Singer wasn’t counted in that because he only rented a room and kept it straightened up himself. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z When she had made a complete circuit, she said, “You will report to me on waking, and before you go to sleep. I have rented a room in a house over there.” The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z He also dealt with a bunch of crack heads who sold stuff to help them get the rent, or some food, or just through the day. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z Lalo was sullen when anyone asked, and he said it was his wife who had rented her the rooms above the bar. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z There was nothing heavenly about the place Fadi’s father had rented at the Paradise Apartment Complex. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z That July, my father s paycheck could not cover our rent for the first time. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z The Pioneer Press quotes Secretary of HUD Andrew Cuomo ruing the “cruel irony” that prosperity is shrinking the stock of affordable housing nationwide: “The stronger the economy, the stronger the upward pressure on rents.” Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z He began to charge a modest fee for his knowledge, which enabled him to rent a house where he set up his academy of converts. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z “Not I. The utmost I hope is, to save money enough out of my earnings to set up a school some day in a little house rented by myself.” Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z The porter rented pillows on this run too, but I slept just fine without one. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He also knew that there were services that he could use until he was twenty-one: rent and food subsidies, possible scholarships for school, job assistance. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z We had used baby-sitting money to rent black satin capes lined in red. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z The store doesn't exist anymore, but back in the nineties, you could go there to develop photos and rent movies—two activities that are obsolete today, hence its disappearance. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z The company charged a small monthly rent, automatically deducted from the miners’ pay. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Then we turned up Church Street and rented this reality DVD, Life Against Death, which had a lot of cliffs, as well as fires, animal attacks, and skydiving accidents. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z I also opened a bank account, rented a post office box, and bought a plastic bowl and a spoon at Woolworth’s, a store whose name I recognized from London. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z He said they could find the money to pay the back rent, but first he thought he and Ann should visit the landlord the next day. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Without any income, how would we pay our rent in the months to come? I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z Then, “Are you going to rent a truck?” my mother asked, real quiet. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z Everything was in order but even then they wouldn’t rent it to him.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Soon their kisses were not enough and they began to meet in the rented room where Miguel lived. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z “No, my family rented a house on Sea Street.” Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z Featuring bottom-level Thoroughbreds and quarter horses, these tracks offered the worst of low- rent racing. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z He’d need to get a job to pay his share of the rent and groceries, I said, but jobs were going begging in the city. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z Were we going to be able to pay the rent? Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Maybe not a huge bank account, vintage Jordans, a rented Bugatti, and dinosaur fossils. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z By God, ’tis a desperate situation altogether when you can’t turn your back but tenants are not paying their rent and making walls and rooms disappear on top of it. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z “But don’t worry, Ms. Yen. I’m willing to negotiate for their release. I’ll rent Fred back to you for three hundred thousand dollars! Cash!” Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z I sold my watch and scouted for cheaper rooms; I found a rotting building and rented an apartment in it. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z We can’t find any bakeries, so we settle for a nearby grocery store, one of those fancy ones where a bag of organic apples costs more than our rent. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z No shadow came crawling through moonlight seeking the rent through which it might clamber back into its own domain. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z She explained her situation: how she couldn’t work because of her health, why she lacked a hundred dollars for rent, about all the things her two girls needed. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z “I know five people who are looking for a place to live who could help out with the rent.” The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z “I wonder if they are renting it out now.” The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z A house was rented, a matron hired, and provisions carted to the door of this new city institution. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z And if they’re rich enough, they can’t be bothered to rent it out, so at any given time, maybe one in five of the cliffside homes in Laguna Beach are vacant. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z “You’re not The Perks of Being a Wallflower. I did not just rent The Breakfast Club.” What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z In 1942, the entire family accompanied him to White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia, renting a house in town that was close enough for Howard to walk to his job as a bellman at the Greenbrier. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z I’ll get the money for rent somehow, I’ll catch up in my classes and I’m even going to make time to go with everyone on a college tour with Ms. Gruwell. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z “I suppose we could rent the spaces, but then we’d have to worry about finding businesses and what kind of businesses should be allowed to rent here.” Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z Maybe they can rent another apartment and stay in the complex. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z Plan A was to get a paycheck by early October, then pay the second month’s rent and utilities and buy food. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z To her surprise, the Y offered to commit enough money to rent the field at the community center in Clarkston and to buy equipment. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z “Oh yeah—since we were two. Our families rent a house together every summer for a month. We kind of grew up together.” Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z I would stay in the little room he rented for me for a few days, then go hack to Bubeh’s, then go back there to my little room again. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z She immediately instructed his sister, Joan, to send the entire amount of her monthly Social Security check to Bobby to assist him with his rent. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z You don’t need a degree in economics to see that wages are too low and rents too high. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Curly considered a quick trip to the minimart to rent some videos, but that would require crossing the property to reach his truck. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z My mom couldn’t take care of me at home and be violently sick at the same time, and my grandparents were away, so the ’rents couldn’t dump me with them again. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z “Oh, you’d be surprised how many people will pay for a flesh-eating horse. They make great garbage disposals. Wonderful way to terrify your enemies. Great at birthday parties! We rent them out all the time.” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z He’d been renting the Santiagos’ extra apartment while he finished up his final visual arts degree at Pratt, and he pretty much stayed out of sight. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z There are so many guests invited to Sonia’s rice ceremony that Ashoke arranges to rent a building on campus, with twenty folding tables and an industrial stove. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z It was exciting, but from month to month we worried about how we would pay for the rent, the groceries, and anything else we needed. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z His parents are distressed by how little money he makes, and occasionally his father sends him checks in the mail to help him with his rent, his credit card bills. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z “Sure. My wife and I write them a rent check every month.” Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z I no longer rented a cellular phone for the rides from the airport. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Since Lemos had little money, she went next door to her landlord’s house and asked for the twelve dollars she had given him for that month’s rent. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z “Everyone else around here has to pay rent. I’m tired of you leeching off of me!” Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z “We used Caitlin's money again for August's rent,” she continued, her eyes stuck to the floor. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z There was no money to rent a horse. Stone Fox 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z A week with the grand- ’rents and I was desperate enough to contemplate the vile crime of beef felony. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z If the rent for this room is five shillings a week we’ll have fourteen shillings for food and clothes and coal to boil the water for the tea. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z Moss locked his bike up in front of a baby-clothes boutique, one of those shops where an afternoon’s shopping spree might be worth more than his mom paid in rent for a month. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z LiNK moved to Torrance from Washington, D.C., to find cheaper rent and to focus on building a grassroots movement. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z And the next week Father told Mother she had to move out of the house, but she couldn’t because she didn’t have any money to pay rent for a flat. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z “I told you already. We rented those rooms! Just ask Kev if you don’t believe me!” Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z Then it was that Mr. Malloy took to renting the larger pipes as sleeping quarters for single men at a very nominal fee. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z She was renting the same apartment off Airline Highway and working two jobs. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z Gupta paid his workers stacks of rupees to threaten tenants who fell behind on their rent. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z I passed and returned to London, where Drew had a job and we’d rented a flat. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Mayans who lived away from the cities worked the nobles’ fields and paid rent to use the land for their own needs. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z If I worked two jobs and we did not have to pay rent, we could save enough money for a down payment in no time. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z Loma would get a thousand, too, “and the house on Julius Street, now rented, which I believe to be of equal value to the others.” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z It worked, or at least the ’rents managed to hide their reactions from Jeffrey when they came downstairs.We all sat at the breakfast table, pretending to be normal and cheerful. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z She didn’t want to rent it, either, since she was opposed to anyone else living in her house. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z If we could not pay rent, we would be homeless. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z Nate didn’t say anything about it the next time that I rented, so I was hopeful that he’d forgotten about it. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z He was moving into a room he had rented near Columbia, he said, and he wanted to say goodbye. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z For $365 a month, she rented a room in a friend’s Brooklyn apartment on a street lined with aluminum-sided row houses and American flags. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z That night the Voice of the People offices were routinely burglarized, the three rented electric typewriters and the enlarger stolen. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z It was a matter of chance that I should have rented a house in one of the strangest communities in North America. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z The last time I went two weeks without talking to Ellen was when her parents rented an RV and took her up along the West Coast. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z They had taken the streetcar one Sunday to Old Sardis Lake and had rented a rowboat. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z Grandma paid the rent, ten shillings for two weeks. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z “Of course, it’s not best house in neighborhood, not million-dollar house, not yet. But it’s good investment. Better than paying rent. Better than somebody putting you under their thumb to rub you out.” The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z “In other words, we are always going to support you, not the ’rents,” Blake continued. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z The round-trip took us nearly five hours — time far better spent earning money to pay for food, rent, and clothes for the children. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z With the food going, the music blowing, 145th Street was like a huge rent party without the door charge. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z I rented a bulldozer and cleared four acres of the small—if ancient—black spruce and set to work. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z It had several large claw rents from when the draccus had walked over it. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z To help make ends meet, Granny rented out part of her lodgings to immigrant workers whose permits to live in Alexandra had expired and who were facing deportation orders. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z A nickel hit paid twenty-seven dollars, half of the month’s rent. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z “Betty and I have been looking at a house we want to buy”—he tried a chuckle—“you know nobody’s going to rent, not to me, these days!” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z It helped, too, that gas and electricity were included in my rent and that I got two or three free meals each weekend at the nursing home. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z “You keep all of my food vouchers. That more than covers my share of the rent.” Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z The bills were crisp and fresh and I tried to imagine Mary's surprise when I paid her all my back rent and board. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z His roommate had left him with rent that he couldn’t afford. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z The thought flitted through Winston’s mind that it would probably be quite easy to rent the room for a few dollars a week, if he dared to take the risk. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z Butler steered the protesting Vietnamese man to the rented four-wheel drive. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z Call me gutless, but what I was looking for this time around was a comfortable correspondence between income and rent, a few mild adventures, a soft landing. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z People were probably going to rent cars and spend a few hundred dollars on a slick pair of shoes. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z Early in the morning, he’d drive from the apartment she was renting in Georgetown to work at the Pentagon. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Then word came that an industrious youth named Zack from one of the cabins had somehow gotten to Franklin and rented a minivan and was offering to take anyone to town for $5. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z But the paper paid my father’s salary and our rent. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z They shared a rented room and took English classes at night at the Jewish Community Center. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z Vincent is working hard in a studio he's rented away from the house. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z She led us to the car and got in without even looking at the flustered guy who’d rented it. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z During a 1946 visit to his in-laws on Balboa Island, a resort spot south of Los Angeles, he conceived the idea of renting a home on the island for the summer. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z She demanded rent whenever she felt like it. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z What are we to do when we have to pay rent in a fortnight? Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z And through many ups and downs and storms, for the past seven years, Theo has been giving Vincent money for paint, pencils and pens, ink, canvases, paper, clothing, food, and, until he moved in, rent. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Others in the building say she had rented space for one month. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z If he had to spend the rest of his life thinking about rents and property, he’d lose his mind. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z We lived in a little rented house in Iowa. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z Soon they were living in this house, while renovating their original house on Dart, and renting out the other house next door. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z He has to make a point of going to his studio, of resetting the tape on his answering machine, paying his rent check and his bills. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z I rode in station wagons, sport cars, rented vans. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Sapo was right, Bodega was gone and his dreams had dissolved like a wafer in water; his buildings would be reclaimed by the city, which would raise our rents. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z The first night back in the rented room, Pearl had cried and cried until Mia herself had begun to cry. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z I hand Shorty a wad of cash to cover the rent. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Almost every Sunday afternoon Dad wanted to take a long nap in peace, and so he gave us thirty fen to rent picture books. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z He hoped Shell would rent it because the oil companies were always the best renters, never complaining about abrupt hikes, paying easily in American dollars so that nobody had to deal with the fluctuating naira. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z It was Papito who paid the rent and bought them their winter clothes and spoiled them once with an outing to Lincoln Center to see the doll-like ballerinas dancing on their toes. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z Relatives need gas money, friends could use help with the rent. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z At one point Alpert launched into a complicated story of how to make the best use of coupons in renting videos at Blockbuster. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z When we finally ran out of money we had to resort to the only place we didn’t have to pay rent, the streets. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z Many chose food, but my father had to cover school fees as well as rent and food. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z Momma’s check went toward our rent, and Nan’s money went to everything else. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z We ran arm in arm, tripping through a field rent with furrows and ditches, falling and catching each other in an epileptic dance. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z Our rent is paid through the end of next year. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z He said, “Don’t go home, Tara. The church will pay your rent.” Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z “No drinking. Go to a speakeasy if you want to drink. I don’t want any trouble with the police. Now, about the rent. You just got married?” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Anticipating this, the company had set aside Sector One as the simulation’s designated business zone and began to sell and rent millions of blocks of surreal estate there. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z There was more than just one other world beyond ours; there were hundreds and hundreds of them, and at 99 cents apiece I could rent them all. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z The room is rented to William Clark, a twenty-three-year-old army clerk who is gone for the night. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z Time after time Malachy drinks away his rent money and winds up sleeping in parks when the landlord throws him out. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z “It won’t be big. Come on . They spread out, searching. They had only been at it for a couple of minutes, however, when a shout rent the still air. “Over here, Arthur! Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z Hitherto, almost all we grew had been sold to pay the rent of the land; now we were enabled to keep some of our own produce. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z When my mom came home, the rent and all the bills were overdue, so we were evicted. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z August 22 American Address Our cowboy in an even taller hat finds us a house on Princess Anne Road, pays rent ahead three months. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z The Pinkertons had found that Holmes sometimes rented houses in the cities through which he traveled, as he had done in Burlington. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z So he was setting off in a rented Ryder with a fake ID of his own, no credit cards, and ten bucks to fall back on if anything went wrong. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z They have even rented a limo and everything. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z I rented ye two rooms up here and one is gone. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z ‘But don’t clay for these here bricks cost money? And don’t it take money to rent land and raise crops on?’ The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z This was the moment I had lost Audrey: this was the moment the costs had become real, when the tax was levied, the rent due. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z “I thought him letting us use his building was an arrangement of love. He’s floundering in gold, he doesn’t need our rent!” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “I’m sorry I made us rent this stupid boat.” Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z In Wasilla there was a place where good tools could be rented, and I found a kind of machine for drilling four-foot-deep-by-eight-inch-wide holes in the ground. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z The plans were made, a hospital picked, a furnished condo rented in Atlanta. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z As do black people dancing it out at rent parties, as do black people at their family reunions where we are regarded like the survivors of catastrophe. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z By the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, landlords in central and Southern China had an almost completely hands-off relationship with their tenants: they would collect a fixed rent and let farmers go about their business. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z We live in Bed-Stuy, and she's always complaining about the reason they keep raising the rent so much around this part of Brooklyn, is because white people are moving in. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z I get very litle help from my mother on the fashion front, because whatever I wear she says it looks lovely, as long as it has no visible rents. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z So they rented a house across from the cemetery and established themselves there with no other furniture but José Arcadio’s hammock. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z My mom wasn’t interested in any such arrangement, but thanks to her job she did have money to pay rent. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z “It’s a disgrace not paying the rent on time,” Papá said one evening as he opened our empty metal box. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z Holmes claimed to have secured a cadaver that resembled Ben Pitezel and to have placed it on the second floor of a house rented especially for the fraud. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Public housing tenants are required to do far more than simply pay their rent on time, keep the noise down, and make sure their homes are kept in good condition. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z She was a month behind on the rent. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z “Well, to charge them less rent would be unethical.” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z Uncle Abdullah decided to rent our house to a refugee family and forced Mama and me to move into his house. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z Her husband rented out the house and also went away. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z For a few hours the currents kept us near the island. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z To save money, Helen rented a Western-style, white gown with a matching veil. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z This summer we’re in a rented cabin on the north shore of Lake Superior. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Albert Einstein stood on the porch of his rented cottage, looking cool, tan, and relaxed in loose pants, a T-shirt, and slippers. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z She and her husband had one bedroom and they rented the other two out and we shared the kitchen and bathroom. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Inexplicably, his rent at the Albany had gone down. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z “Me own land? A house? We’re lucky if we can pay our rent.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z According to Armpit’s father, the cost of air-conditioning the homes in west Austin, with their high ceilings and grand entrances, was greater than the amount he paid in rent. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z We were living in the housing project then, some government- built apartments for people without a lot of rent money. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Mam comes back up to Italy and sits by the fire wondering where in God’s name she’ll get the money for a week’s rent never mind the arrears. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z Plus, it still wouldn't cover the cost of renting a tux. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z If my mother would work at cleaning his house and washing his family’s clothing, he could arrange to pay our rent. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z It takes three hours to pack up everything we own, and that’s only because I spend an hour finding someone who will rent me a cart. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z “Like I said before, there was the idea of turning it into a small meeting space that people could rent,” Mr. Shephard says. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z The difference, however, is that wages and rents in Bangalore are less than one-fifth what they are in those Western capitals. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z He would grab Papá’s house in an instant and sell or rent it to somebody else. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z The hotels were jumping on each other, and there was bumff from like the casinos and mud slides and the gift shops and places where you could rent extra arms. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Mommy was the wrong color for black pride and black power, which nearly rent my house in two. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z So he rented out all his land that he could and men took it eagerly, for it was known to be good land. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z Katherine paid a cab to take her to the house of the principal of the Marion school, where she had arranged to rent a room. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z I want to rent a hotel room with you. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “I do not rent to Igbo people,” he said softly, startling her. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z At times we barely had enough money to pay our rent, I knew that we couldn’t afford college. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z Most of the other students came from well-off Massachusetts families, spared worries over rent or food. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z His rent is due, and he doesn’t have enough to pay it. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z He also put himself through school, which meant working odd jobs as a waiter and a bus driver to pay his rent and his tuition. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z Her roommates were nice, but they had to have rent money, and she had to buy her share of the food. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z When people could not find or afford apartments, they sought rooms in private homes and boardinghouses, where typically the rent included meals. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z I could have kept them on a picket chain while I built the kennel—which would take two months; I would have to rent a bulldozer to clear a place, drill holes, build houses, etc. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z He consoled himself finally with the thought that the rent was paid and that they were safe for thirty days. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Mom and I teamed up on a handshake and gave each other free rent. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z A quick glance around the stalls shows that most of the horses are already rented out for the evening. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z “I don’t fix the rent scales,” Mr. Dalton said. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z Hatsue wanted to move from the dilapidated cottage they rented at the end of Bender’s Spring Road, but Kabuo had convinced her the better move was to purchase a gill-netting boat. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z “We’ll have a really early call. It might be better if we rent a hotel closer to the set.” Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z The attic his pickpocketing crew rented could be accessed through the roof of this building. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Guests, in other words, must vacate the room by the stated hour or expect to be charged another day’s rent—a luxury that the present occupants were not contemplating. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z He knew that black people could not go outside of the Black Belt to rent a flat; they had to live on their side of the “line.” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z Kids who weren’t into school were unlikely to choose Maybeck, a private high school with roughly a hundred kids that rented space on two floors of a Presbyterian church in Berkeley. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z The parents, who had never previously rented a room and therefore exaggerated their politeness to the lodgers, dared not sit on their own chairs. The Metamorphosis 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z But my move to the trailer park—for the purpose, you will recall, of taking a second job—made me responsible for $625 a month in rent alone, utilities not included. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z He has toasted the Union victory every night since Monday, and tonight he felt so worn out that he stayed in his rented room in William Petersen’s boardinghouse to rest. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z The next day Liyana’s family rented the whole upstairs apartment of a large white stone house out in the countryside, halfway between Jerusalem and the town of Ramallah. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z “Anywhere hereabouts I could rent a car?” he asked the woman behind the cash register. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z I asked Mom if we were going to sell the house on North Third Street or rent it out. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z The young man informed Michaux that he had the back rent money, but would turn it over only after certain repairs were made. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Madrina, the owner of our building, who lets us rent for mad cheap, has to catch her breath when she reaches our apartment. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z The landlord relented and gave us until the end of the month to come up with the three months’ rent we owed him. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Bodega rented an apartment on the top floor of the tower facing the East River, mostly for the view—he had enough other places to live in. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z A month or so after that, Cindy Sindy took the strip job at the club because I was drinking our rent. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z There was no longer any scholarship money, and there was the full rent of the flat to be paid. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z I am also renting ideal space for: • Doctor's office in lobby • Coffee shop with entrance from parking lot • Hi-class restaurant on entire top floor Six letters were delivered, just six. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z “Are you not a real man? Pay me my money I will throw you out of this flat if I don’t get that rent by next week!” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z When the cost of caring for, feeding, and equipping the animals was added, it became more economical for people living in cities to rent horses from livery stables, much as people rent cars today. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z Their houses had been torn down to make room for high-priced hotels and the A-frame cottages that now rented in season for a thousand dollars a week. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z “I’m not selling anything. I’m thinking of buying and then renting,” Macon answered her. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z It was grueling work, but it paid the rent. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Just around the corner is James Pumphrey’s stable, where he often rents a horse. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z “We pay him rent, don’t we? He should fix it. If it falls, he won’t be able to get rent no more.” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z I didn’t have to pay rent to Mom and Dad, but I did have to pay for food and clothing and help with utility bills. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z “No. No thanks. Is there anywhere around here I could rent a car? My car died, back down the road a way.” American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z We are always behind on our car payments and rent, too. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z But finally Helen had crumpled her last piece of newspaper; Ralph had rented a truck. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z Once in a while Papá did some light work for Bonetti, the owner of the ranch, to help pay the rent, but as time passed we fell further and further behind on the monthly payments. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z Vanity Dancing, the old club, now for rent. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z He resolved to remain binocular and specified to Doc Daneeka that his eye patch be transparent so that he could continue pitching horseshoes, kidnaping Italian laborers and renting apartments with unimpaired vision. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z His scarlet robes were tattered, his corslet of overlapping brazen plates was rent and hewn, his black plaits of hair braided with gold were drenched with blood. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z In addition, the fraying relationship between Whitiker and her boyfriend fell apart and, without him to pay the rent, she fell further behind. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z I figure if I can just get there, I’ll be able to make my way to Cuba, maybe rent a boat or get a fisherman to take me. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z She was describing a Baltimore of twenty-five years ago and a neighborhood neither she nor Joe could rent in, but she didn’t know that, and never knew it, because they went to the City instead. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z And the next day when the landlord came around for his rent, he got mad at Father when Father asked him for an extension. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z There was nothing else to say They owed rent. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z With the remaining insurance money Milton rented space in three malls in the Detroit metropolitan area. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Living as far as they had from the village, the Worthens had never even bothered to pay pew rent in the village congregational church. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z He said the only hope was renting it out as a warehouse, but again warehouse revenues are not high and the place is badly located for a warehouse. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z When the checks came, Ty'ree usually used them to pay rent and buy food. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z “I don’t think he wanted to leave. I’d paid the rent through February.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z My parents rented an apartment on the second floor, while Robbie and Terry lived on the first. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Low rent, a high-end security system, and steady, reliable access to as much electricity as I could afford. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z “Not at all. So long as we are collecting rents, we will not have to pay any.” In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z Except for my dad, because he was too busy videotaping everyone with a camera he rented from the video store. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z Matter of fact, on this visit, Richard had rented a minivan and we let him drive. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “The probability that he could rent this place out would increase significantly if the apartment were vacant.” The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z In the three months he rented our room, I’d never seen his bare back. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Upon arriving in Englewood, she rented rooms in a boardinghouse near Holmes’s building. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z But the rent is $150 a week, so it’s on to the Biarritz, where a jolly gal shows me the efficiency for $110 a week—no TV, no linens, no dish- ware. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z “The number of mysterious persons who had rented houses in and about Indianapolis multiplied from day to day,” Geyer wrote. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z She's the only person I know around here who still has one, other than Malloy, and it's cool that she doesn't try to make the rest of us feel bad about renting floors. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z Later Mrs Mooney came up with some food and she told me they paid the rent and left money for her to buy food and anything I need. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z "I rent a room from a woman in Harlem," I said. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z “All you bought was the wedgies, you didn’t pay no rent here.” Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z And then she tinned back around and started to sing a song that was about trailers being for sale or rent. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z His career extends from the industry’s modest origins to its cur- rent hamburger hegemony. Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal 2001-01-17T00:00:00Z They lived in Jasper’s mom’s guesthouse for a while, but then finally rented a bigger apartment just outside of town. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z She tells him about the house her husband rents in Brookline, a sprawling Victorian that costs less than half of their one-bedroom apartment in Murray Hill. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z His mother hoarded the little he earned, and after several months, she was able to rent a room for the three of them. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z Usually it was the Southerners and the West Indians who not only managed to own the places where they lived, but also at least one other house which they rented as income property. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z I wanted attention from the ’rents, and I wanted it big-time. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z For the first year or so, I crashed on sofas and rented different flats in the area with the other immigrants who had come to the city with no money. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z He was able to rent an ancient mansion that had belonged to one of the great saltpeter fortunes before they invented the synthetic substitute that had shot the whole industry to hell. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z “Where will I find a man who will marry a widow? And who will take your place here and pay so much rent?” Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z Did he do his work right there in the sanitarium, or did they rent him a little office where he could get away from all the noise? Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z “We used to go there all the time as a family, and she ran away there, apparently. She told us she rented a place, but she didn’t give us an address, or even a town.” Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z He left the door of his room open, and on the table in an envelope addressed to Mrs. Kelly there were four dollars for the past week’s rent. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z She and her mother and two little sisters had rented the little semibasement apartment next' to where Mr. Bodler, the janitor, lived. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z Freddie carried his discovery not only into the homes in Ruth’s neighborhood, but to Southside, where he lived and where Macon Dead owned rent houses. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z She took up a hoe instead, and began to put every square inch of her sandy two-acre rented lot under cultivation: peanuts, sweet potatoes, and four dozen kinds of flowers. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z At four o’clock a lull took place, and baskets remained empty, while the apple pickers rested and compared rents and bruises. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z They found him dead the next morning, huddled up against his sweetheart’s tombstone, and now Miss Love was renting Arthur’s old room. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z “I’d like to rent one of the deluxe rigs for twelve hours,” I said. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z That was why none of them slept at the house when they visited the town and the four who had stayed lived in rented rooms at Úrsula’s insistence. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z The owner of the inn kept three rooms on his top floor for transients, which he rented to girls for two-week periods. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z It hardly counted as paying rent, but they insisted it was plenty. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z She stayed on, watching the land rented and sold piece by piece from around her. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z The machine we rent requires real upper body strength to operate, especially when it is attacking hard ground. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z The rent was fifty-five rupees a month—about a dollar in today’s terms, but a colossal fortune for her family. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z "I rent a room from a woman in Harlem," I said. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z This time the house will be really ours, not rented. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z I wandered around my early twenties, paying rent and reading classifieds and wondering why the lights were not turning green for me. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z A hundred dollars a day, almost enough for her monthly rent. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z The apartment’s entrance was marred by a rusty fire escape running up the front, and there was only one small bedroom—but the rent was $45 a month. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z My father had spent the last few days before the holiday trying to find a way to pay the rents, the utility bills, and the teachers’ salaries. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z The shriek went on and on, as she tore her hair and rent her garments and collapsed onto the floor. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z He did not, however, reduce the rents in his company town. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z They stood by the house that we rented in town, and they looked across the river at the hills of the llano. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Finally Bill rented a-sander from Millsburg Plaza, and they took off the black floor paint down to the wide oak boards and refinished them. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z “So, the profits you take from the Thomas family in rents, you give back to them to ease the pain of their gouged lives and to salve the ache of your own conscience?” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z I had a rented hospital bed in the living room, where I watched soap operas on t.v., and my family cranked me up and down. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z He rented a storefront on Sheriff Street, with living quarters in the back. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z With the money he had to pay rent, buy food, pay bus fare and retire portions of his ever-increasing gambling debts. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z It didn’t make any difference that they had to rent out rooms to make ends meet. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z The more conservative American Woman Suffrage Association was eventually given a small space inside the exhibition, but the National Woman Suffrage Association had to rent office space on Chestnut Street, nearby. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z “That hurts,” she said aloud to Freddie as she folded into her pocket the rent money he handed her. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z He lived in the dingy shacks of the white landlords and refused to pay rent. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z “Dad,” Ji-yong asked suddenly, “did Grandpa whip the farmers if they couldn’t pay their rent?” Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Jay used most of her check to cover the rent, and we ate sandwiches until her next payday. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z In the summers he came home to take his father’s place in the fields, for cabin rent had to be paid with field work. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z You could also rent vehicles to attach to your horse. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z And he wasn’t lying: since word got around that we could not afford to pay rent, there had been a steady stream of shack-seekers at the custodian’s door. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Then years later there was the time Antonapoulos took the rent money from the vase on the mantelpiece and spent it all on the slot machines. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z He says quietly, We will pay rent for now and try to save slowly for our own house. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z That was the mission of John Blackburn, Virginia’s easygoing admissions dean, when he rented a car and took to the road in the spring of 2005. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z Something rent inside Travis, making a sound in his mind like a thousand tearing pages. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z Bail out, dress the dead, pay the rent, find new rooms, start a school, storm an office, take up collections, rout the block and keep their eyes on all the children. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z So to survive year-round, I would have had to save enough, in the months between August 1999 and May 2000, to accumulate the first month’s rent and deposit on an actual apartment. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z We’ll rent a small bungalow on a side street several blocks from the Nielsens, four rooms downstairs and one up. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z “We already have five shops rented out from the festival,” I told them. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z We had to eat, she would say, we had to have books and school fees, we had to pay rent, we had to have bribes for the policemen. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z She stood that way in the little rented room with the sunshine pouring in until Guitar came home. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z He even offered them a place to spend the night: an apartment he sometimes rented out to tourists. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z Its rent had helped put her through Denison, then had become a monthly “booster”—as her mother had put it—while she started off as a cub reporter. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z The barite mine where Dad worked had a commissary, and the mine owner deducted our bill and the rent for the depot out of Dad’s paycheck every month. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z Remember when I was seven and you were eleven and Mom and Dad rented out the sports center across town? P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z Though I had saved almost no money, I decided to rent an apartment. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z We were desperately bored; the littles had rented bikes to go on this scenic ride to Oak Bluffs and we had no idea when they’d return. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z When Richard comes, he rents these shiny little cars or a van and we drive around town in those. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z On paydays, if the rent wasn't due, Ty'ree always made sure there was some left to see a movie or rent a video. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z Ernest and Molly moved into a rented house on Berkeley’s Keith Avenue, in a hilly neighborhood just north of the campus. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z All this time she’d been looking for an apartment, testing the water pressure, asking a Realtor if heat and hot water were included in the rent. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z “If you are buying nothing more,” he said at last with much impudence, “you will have to pay rent for the stool.” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z When she spied her cap upon the floor, she picked it up and poked her fingers through its rents. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z Dad asks, “Do we have to rent an instrument?” Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z “NO! I’m keeping it. If you don’t want it then I’m pawning it. We have at least four or five months’ rent here.” Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z But if rents are exquisitely sensitive to market forces, wages clearly are not. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z I even go around to the front where you rent beach gear, because I know that sometimes he likes to stand around and talk to random people. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z They also introduced her to white men who were willing to rent out flats in town. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z Fred and Cha-Cha, the second audition winner, rode with Jenny and Abby to an apartment in Brooklyn that the Washington! producers had rented for their canine cast. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z “We’ll rent you out on Halloween. Hello, what have we here?” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z The house has been rented to some American students his father has found through the university, an unmarried couple named Barbara and Steve. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z "My debt to you is settled, and my rent is paid in full." Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z “If they don’t have a motel, we’ll have to rent a room.” The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Red’s was the only colored saloon in the town proper; the proprietor got a break on the rent for a watchful eye. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z “Sure,” I said, wishing I could rent a backbone from here too. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z “I expect you shall be so with the rent!” Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z If you can’t put up the two months’ rent you need to secure an apartment, you end up paying through the nose for a room by the week. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Colonel Cathcart did not know if he owned the house or rented it, from whom he had acquired it or how much, if anything, it was costing. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z They strolled around the lake, bought tea at a stall, and rented deck chairs to listen to elderly men of the Salvation Army playing Elgar adapted for brass band. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z If she bought all the textbooks she needed, she would not have enough to pay her rent, and so she borrowed textbooks during class and made feverish notes which, reading them later, sometimes confused her. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z He tried to imagine a life where every dollar wasn’t set aside for groceries or rent or emergencies. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z On the Upper East Side an apartment facing the East River would be priceless, but this is Spanish Harlem, where most rents are subsidized by Section Eight. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z At the dock, I watched as the old ladies and men started climbing aboard a large boat our family had rented. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Finally we could no longer pay the rent for our dingy flat; the few dollars that Granny had left us before she went home were gone. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Then I set down to look over my finances cause two things done happen: the bus gone up to fifteen cents a ride and my rent gone up to twenty-nine dollars a month. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z The rent was paid as long as she could keep those three tenements clean. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Some had long stabbing thorns, some hooked barbs that rent like knives. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z There was a gaping rent in the metal. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z “This. Is. Great. Yes. You know what this means, don’t you? All the heat will be off me. When the ’rents find out about this, I’ll be a Boy Scout again. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z |
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