Tenement

The poorest man may in his cottage bid defiance to all the forces of the Crown. It may be frail — its roof may shake — the wind may blow through it — the storm may enter — the rain may enter — but the King of England cannot enter — all his force dares not cross the threshold of the ruined tenement!

They live in a rundown tenement on 5th St.

Tom grew up in a tenement.

He turned into Cumberland street and, going on some paces, halted in the lee of the station wall. No-one. Meade’s timberyard. Piled balks. Ruins and tenements.

The island of Brecqhou is a tenement of Sark.

Who has informed us that a rational soul can inhabit no tenement, unless it has just such a sort of frontispiece?

Where she came from no man could tell. There were some said she was no woman, but a ghost haunting some mortal tenement.