1 In an hour or two the moon would push over the ridge behind the farm, burn a gold-edged rent in the clouds, and then be swallowed by them.
2 The sky was rent with gigantic flame.
3 Mr. and Mrs. Whiting had a room there, too, and Mrs. Bonnell was talking of moving in, if she was fortunate enough to rent her house to a Yankee officer and his family.
4 Of course, five hundred of it went to paying for new stock and repairing the store and paying the rent.
5 I brought 'em to you to sell, because I ain't got no other way of raising money, and if we don't pay our rent by tomorrow night we'll be put out.'
6 It looks so cozy, so inviting and restful, whenever I pass by; and it's for rent.
7 Very frequently a lodging house keeper would rent the same beds to double shifts of men.
8 And when they gave up the house plan and decided to rent, the prospect of paying out nine dollars a month forever they found just as hard to face.
9 There was the rent to pay, and still some on the furniture; there was the insurance just due, and every month there was sack after sack of coal.
10 Deducting from this the rent, interest, and installments on the furniture, they had left sixty dollars, and deducting the coal, they had fifty.
11 Then a long time ago the man came for the rent.
12 The family had moved; they had not been able to pay the rent and they had been turned out into the snow, and the house had been repainted and sold again the next week.
13 And we owe Aniele for two weeks' rent, and she is nearly starving, and is afraid of being turned out.
14 He had lost his house but then the awful load of the rent and interest was off his shoulders, and when Marija was well again they could start over and save.
15 As it chanced, he had been hurt on a Monday, and had just paid for his last week's board and his room rent, and spent nearly all the balance of his Saturday's pay.