We shall eat hard and lie hard, we shall dwell like the ancient Romans in narrow tenements, whilst our public edifices, like theirs, will be worthy for their proportion of the landscape in which we set them, for conversation, for art, for music, for worship.

Benjamin pointed to the Sea Barque, a narrow tenement three storeys high with a great ale stake tucked under its eaves and a gaudily painted sign hanging tipsily over the battered door.

This sleek black box sticks out amongst Bo Phut's narrow Chinese tenements.

He fumbled along the ledge for the steel wire that dangled from a heavier cable connecting the apartment building with a tall, narrow, ramshackle tenement on 54th Street.

I was in the black silence of a medieval street, and blindly I followed its sharp turns, comforted by the height of its narrow tenements, which seemed at any moment capable of falling together, closing this alleyway under the indifferent stars like a seam.

Evacuation in Early Morning One such building is the Camelot Hotel, a narrow, five-story tenement in the Tenderloin district.

Her new home was in a dark, narrow tenement in Mott Haven, one of the poorest parts of the South Bronx.

They found it on the corner of Bread Street, a narrow, two-storeyed tenement with a shop below and living quarters above.

The tall narrow tenement which now occupies this site is of later date than the time of Bassendyne, although some of the rooms in the back part may have been occupied by him.