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  • The Eppsteins, a cheerful couple in their eighties, had left Frankfurt when they were evicted from the apartment where they'd lived for over fifty years.†   (source)
  • After a bit of inquiry, the landlord placed the home on the rental market with a severe discount to account for the sensational circumstances of the prior tenant's eviction.†   (source)
  • The people you've just evicted would sputter, "With what right do you throw us out?†   (source)
  • Meanwhile, Joe and Mandy had been evicted from 101 East Oglethorpe Avenue for nonpayment of rent.†   (source)
  • Paper inside say NOTICE OF EVICTION.†   (source)
  • They evicted Jews from their apartments and moved in, confiscating their belongings.†   (source)
  • I'm thinking that he's thinking that he won't get evicted if she owns the place.†   (source)
  • Two years ago, she had tried to evict them on the pretext that relatives from China were coming to live there.†   (source)
  • She teased him because it was all so pretty and melodic, and "in the same phylum as Hall and Oates," and he threatened to evict her from his room.†   (source)
  • 'tis a pity you weren't alive in the times when the English were evicting us and leaving us on the side of the road.†   (source)
  • Then she yanked open the box and down came the avalanche: water bills, light bills, gas bills, phone bills, eviction notices.†   (source)
  • Nor was it there because the person had been killed, or maimed or caught or burned or jailed or whipped or evicted or stomped or raped or cheated, since that could hardly qualify as news in a newspaper.†   (source)
  • I now recalled that the bully had closed all the ancient temples across the empire, basically evicting us Olympian gods.†   (source)
  • Disobeying the McDonald's Corporation became tantamount to violating the terms of the lease, behavior that could lead to a franchisee's eviction.†   (source)
  • Soon after the incident, the landlord evicted us all.†   (source)
  • I thought she was going to tell me that she wasn't kicking me out after all, but instead she slipped a typewritten note into my hand, giving me formal notice of my eviction, including a departure date.†   (source)
  • The father had been evicted, then lost his job.†   (source)
  • When a retiree received an eviction notice from her condo because her pudgy pooch exceeded the weight limit for pets, I swooped in to meet the offending heavyweight.†   (source)
  • He'd gone to the home of an AIDS patient whom he had treated at the Brigham and found out the man was about to be evicted.†   (source)
  • The American Friends Service—the same people who had helped us after the eviction from Terminal Island—helped us rent and move into an apartment in Cabrillo Homes, a housing project in west Long Beach, built by the government for shipyard and defense plant workers.†   (source)
  • I suspected the bartender was getting a bad vibe from me, and I decided to throw all my questions out in a last-ditch effort before he sent me away from the bar—or worse, had me evicted from the restaurant for harassment and suspicious behavior.†   (source)
  • I moved on, adding Arizona, Brady, Pauly, and MacKendrick to the ranks of the evicted.†   (source)
  • The Garcias should be evicted.†   (source)
  • Someone was evicted, put out on the street, chairs, tables, bed, right around the corner—the bed, John said, the super.†   (source)
  • So instead, Kashf requires the husband to sign a document pledging that he will never evict his wife, even if he divorces her.†   (source)
  • After Seabiscuit evicted the goat, Smith hauled in Pumpkin.†   (source)
  • Cole had earlier that evening directed her deputies to mass-evict all of them, on the pretense of unlawful trespass.†   (source)
  • Lorenzo shuffled through the other mail and found a letter from a Realtor who advertised his ability to stave off eviction.†   (source)
  • Except for eviction notices, my jurisdiction ends at the town limits.†   (source)
  • I made out the possessions of a Dominican man who had been evicted a month or two before.†   (source)
  • Then they went round the hole, and evicted three young hobbits (two Boffins and a Bolger) who were knocking holes in the walls of one of the cellars.†   (source)
  • If it goes two weeks, eviction proceedings commence and legal fees swiftly pile up.†   (source)
  • The district governor will do nothing to evict them.†   (source)
  • He and a deputy and Cleon went out to the settlement and told Esther and the other Rinds folks that they were being evicted.†   (source)
  • A family had just been evicted and there was an individual cry of despair, multiplied by millions.†   (source)
  • It watched its last generation of children torn away from it by court orders and eviction notices, and it had become too tired and sick to help them.†   (source)
  • Being pack leader paid a small salary, and she had decided to use it for rent, to keep what once had been Jordan and Simon's place, keep their things from being thrown into the street by an angry, evicting landlord.†   (source)
  • To arrive at a contradiction is to confess an error in one's thinking; to maintain a contradiction is to abdicate one's mind and to evict oneself from the realm of reality.†   (source)
  • LINNIE'S FIRST ACT in Baltimore was to get them both evicted.†   (source)
  • He had settled Prince Oberyn and his lords in a cornerfort facing the city, as far from the Tyrells as he could put them without evicting them from the Red Keep entirely.†   (source)
  • Only once in ten years has a bug been evicted for rowdiness.†   (source)
  • All the bedroom space was taken and he hated to evict anyone.†   (source)
  • Thirty years I run this place without evicting nobody.†   (source)
  • I would have flared an ugliness of anger and he would then have been able to evict me with pleasure and good conscience.†   (source)
  • There were 85,000 businesses bankrupt, 5,000 bank failures, 275,000 families evicted from their homes.†   (source)
  • And they're going to be evicted.†   (source)
  • I let him have the place for almost nothing, just to keep someone on it, and he never pays that till I threaten to evict him.†   (source)
  • Thereby inviting eviction proceedings from large, hairy individuals with no feeling for property rights.†   (source)
  • If you've been evicted, bankrupted, terrorized, swindled… If you're frightened, for any reason and don't know where to turn… If you're desperate… Take Sanctuary.†   (source)
  • The landlord is threatening to evict us because of the odor.   (source)
    evict = forced to move out (of their home)
  • Ye can move up here tonight an' ye won't have the eviction men coming after ye.†   (source)
  • Angela is gettin' evicted with the children an' 'tis delvin' out of the heavens.†   (source)
  • A family had just been evicted and there was an individual cry of despair, multiplied by millions.†   (source)
  • I heard a whump, an involuntary grunt as the air in his lungs was evicted.†   (source)
  • Through the translucent oval in the envelope she can see the block letters "Notice of Eviction."†   (source)
  • Tell him I find it hard to believe a bug was ever evicted.†   (source)
  • His family was still struggling to avoid eviction.†   (source)
  • You are to continue what you started at the eviction.†   (source)
  • I'm from the South, and since coming here I've known eviction.†   (source)
  • Booker Washington was resurrected today at a certain eviction in Harlem.†   (source)
  • It was a mystery once more, as at the eviction I had uttered words that had possessed me.†   (source)
  • " "You mean you're interfering with an eviction," he called, starting through the crowd.†   (source)
  • More or less like the old couple that was evicted?†   (source)
  • You are, are youl Just you try and evict me, well see about that!†   (source)
  • Now, after all this, so help me God I've gotta evict an almost rabbi!"†   (source)
  • In July, the landlord of Sweet Georgia Brown's had padlocked the bar, evicted Joe for nonpayment of rent, and sued for arrears.†   (source)
  • " So now I know Auntie Ying's daughter, Lena, told her about my being evicted from my apartment on lower Russian Hill.†   (source)
  • It is perfectly legal under federal law for a fast food chain to take kickbacks (known as "rebates") from its suppliers, to open a new restaurant next door to an existing franchisee, and to evict a franchisee without giving cause or paying any compensation.†   (source)
  • I let the tears flow as far as Northcote, then I pull myself together, wipe my eyes and start writing a list of things to do today on the back of Cathy's eviction letter: Holborn Library
    Email Mum
    Email Martin, reference?†   (source)
  • One minute she was talking to my father, complaining about the tenants upstairs, scheming how to evict them under the pretense that relatives from China were moving in.†   (source)
  • I asked Historic Savannah to help find a way to restore this area without evicting the people who lived here, but Historic Savannah was still busted up over the Hyatt, and they weren't interested in the housing problems of poor people.†   (source)
  • Mam tells us be quiet going up the lane or the neighbors will know we got the eviction and there will be shame.†   (source)
  • It seemed that some radicalized children of neighbors had directed rebel soldiers to his family's house during the war, but other neighbors had warned his parents, and after the family house had been burned for the third time, a large group of those country people had banded together and evicted a person who had tried to take his parents' land.†   (source)
  • He has forbidden her to leave the house, made her quit her job, evicted the man, garnisheed his wages, and it is all because of you.†   (source)
  • People often came and went on Brewster Place like a restless night's dream, moving in and out in the dark to avoid eviction notices or neighborhood bulletins about the dilapidated condition of their furnishings.†   (source)
  • Smith took the horse straight down the shed rows, pulled him up at the Kaiser Suite, and evicted Kayak.†   (source)
  • But that community had a number of people on that very block who were electricians and plumbers and carpenters and they appeared that same evening, the evening of the eviction, and moved these household goods back into the flat where they had been.†   (source)
  • A little java and he'd feel ready enough to face the day— getting Jonah off to school, keeping rein on the locals who flouted the law, posting eviction notices throughout the county, as well as handling whatever else inevitably cropped up, like meeting with Jonah's teacher later in the afternoon.†   (source)
  • But a few days ago, on February 15, no check for $904 had arrived at Barac, and the landlord restarted the eviction clock.†   (source)
  • Barbara Jennings failed to make her $452 payment on December 1 and, on December 15, Barac initiated eviction proceedings.†   (source)
  • "No one touch or take anything, until the eviction is complete," he says, holding up his palms in a calming gesture.†   (source)
  • The apartment was far beyond Barbara's minimumwage means, and six months later the eviction crew arrived.†   (source)
  • It's been three days since the near eviction, three days of jumbled emotions in which he hasn't spoken to his mother.†   (source)
  • But before I could open my mouth, Brother Jack had pushed me along to a group of men, one of whom seemed to know all about the eviction.†   (source)
  • Standing in the ruins of her near eviction, she said it was time to take care of herself, to do something other than martyr her life to Cedric's escape and success.†   (source)
  • I couldn't imagine Mary being as helpless as the old woman at the eviction, and by the time I reached the apartment I had begun to lose my depression.†   (source)
  • She knows too well how the clock, which has been running for three months since the eviction order was first issued, continues to tick until all of the tenants' worldly goods are moved from the landlord's property to the closest public area, generally the nearest open spot of sidewalk.†   (source)
  • The eviction fight was such a dramatic issue that most of the leaders feared that their followers would have rallied to us without them.†   (source)
  • Ma'am, my name is Steve Turner from the U.S. Marshall's Service and I'm here to evict you from these premises.†   (source)
  • An old woman passed, bent down with two shopping bags, her eyes upon the slushy walk, and I thought of the old couple at the eviction.†   (source)
  • Ten months later, facing yawning debts that included Neddy's loan for the back rent, she was evicted.†   (source)
  • Outside, the audience had begun to drone; a distant, churning sound that brought back some of the terror of the eviction.†   (source)
  • Then turning, I saw the item Violent Protest Over Harlem Eviction, just as the man lowered his paper and moved out of the breaking doors.†   (source)
  • My part in the eviction was kept very much alive, and although I was under orders to make no speeches, I had grown accustomed to being introduced as a kind of hero.†   (source)
  • I had never seen an eviction.†   (source)
  • Now I recognized a selfconsciousness about them, as though they, we, were ashamed to witness the eviction, as though we were all unwilling intruders upon some shameful event; and thus we were careful not to touch or stare too hard at the effects that lined the curb; for we were witnesses of what we did not wish to see, though curious, fascinated, despite our shame, and through it all the old female, mind-plunging crying.†   (source)
  • I was uneasy about their presence and disappointed when they all joined the crowd and started lugging the evicted articles back inside.†   (source)
  • What on earth was it, I mused, bending my head to the wind, that made us leave the warm, mild weather of home for all this cold, and never to return, if not something worth hoping for, freezing for, even being evicted for?†   (source)
  • They being evicted!†   (source)
  • Evict him!†   (source)
  • Twice we were evicted from the miserable hovel we called home, with my mother's few sticks of furniture thrown out in the street, and my mother and sisters crying.†   (source)
  • Look at Khra-pugina, you can't think there's a question of nationality involved in her case, and we are certainly evicting her.†   (source)
  • We changed houses often because of evictions.†   (source)
  • Evictions, they called them, not deportations.†   (source)
  • Brother, are we still to fight against evictions?†   (source)
  • With a few words he set off an effective demonstration against evictions!†   (source)
  • These are the days of dispossession, the season of homelessness, the time of evictions.†   (source)
  • More apartments and more evictions followed for mother and son before a move back to the dreaded house on 15th Street.†   (source)
  • With all the excitement over evictions they can't afford to come out against us, not without appearing to be against the best interests of the community …."†   (source)
  • Einhorn started eviction proceedings against him and several others, and for this he was picketed by a Communist organization.†   (source)
  • He was not fearing the things she feared, not the gnawing of an empty stomach, nor the keenness of the winter wind nor eviction from Tara.†   (source)
  • At thirty-five he had just been unwillingly evicted from the Youth League, and before graduating into the Youth League he had managed to stay on in the Spies for a year beyond the statutory age.†   (source)
  • By a special urgency measure the denizens of grants in perpetuity were evicted from their graves and the exhumed remains dispatched to the crematorium.†   (source)
  • Quote: In Lawrenceville a deputy sheriff evicted a squatter, and the squatter resisted, making it necessary for the officer to use force.†   (source)
  • But he could not see her family evicted, and his disappointment soon faded at the sight of her radiant happiness, disappeared entirely at the loving way she "took on" over his generosity.†   (source)
  • But Betzhevski was evicted, and his wife stood on the sidewalk and cursed Einhorn for a stinking Jew cripple.†   (source)
  • The first time she had come face to face with Reconstruction was when she learned that Jonas Wilkerson with the aid of the Yankees could evict her from Tara.†   (source)
  • The Basts had just been evicted for not paying their rent, and had wandered no one knew whither.†   (source)
  • "Well, rather," replied Helen, and in a few trembling words she told the story of her eviction.†   (source)
  • Bennett fidgeted with impatience, and suggested calling a sentry to evict the fakir.†   (source)
  • …by means of which other people, when they met him, saw all the Graces enthroned in his face and stopping at the line of his arched nose as at a natural frontier; but they contrived also to put into a face from which its distinction had been evicted, a face vacant and roomy as an untenanted house, to plant in the depths of its unvalued eyes a lingering sense, uncertain but not unpleasing, half-memory and half-oblivion, of idle hours spent together after our weekly dinners, round the…†   (source)
  • There was nothing in Packingtown but packing houses; and so it was the same thing as evicting him from his home.†   (source)
  • Jurgis had never seen any dead bodies in the streets, but he had seen people evicted and disappear, no one knew where; and though the city had a relief bureau, though there was a charity organization society in the stockyards district, in all his life there he had never heard of either of them.†   (source)
  • The reason for the evictions was that Einhorn had had an offer from a raincoat manufacturer for the space upstairs.†   (source)
  • THE IRISH EVICTED TENANTS: (In bodycoats, kneebreeches, with Donnybrook fair shillelaghs) Sjambok him!†   (source)
  • As much as his bloody life is worth to go down and address his tall talk to the assembled multitude in Shanagolden where he daren't show his nose with the Molly Maguires looking for him to let daylight through him for grabbing the holding of an evicted tenant.†   (source)
  • For instance when the evicted tenants question, then at its first inception, bulked largely in people's mind though, it goes without saying, not contributing a copper or pinning his faith absolutely to its dictums, some of which wouldn't exactly hold water, he at the outset in principle at all events was in thorough sympathy with peasant possession as voicing the trend of modern opinion (a partiality, however, which, realising his mistake, he was subsequently partially cured of) and…†   (source)
  • …own peculiar way which she of course, woman, quickly perceived as highly likely to carve his way to fame which he almost bid fair to do till the priests and ministers of the gospel as a whole, his erstwhile staunch adherents, and his beloved evicted tenants for whom he had done yeoman service in the rural parts of the country by taking up the cudgels on their behalf in a way that exceeded their most sanguine expectations, very effectually cooked his matrimonial goose, thereby heaping…†   (source)
  • And apropos of coffin of stones the analogy was not at all bad as it was in fact a stoning to death on the part of seventytwo out of eighty odd constituencies that ratted at the time of the split and chiefly the belauded peasant class, probably the selfsame evicted tenants he had put in their holdings.†   (source)
  • And what could be worse than the evil crime Of evicting me?†   (source)
  • And I've come to you, with your permission, To serve this notice of your eviction.†   (source)
  • This is nothing more than notification, An order to evict both you and yours, Put your furniture out and lock the doors, Without pardon or delay to fulfill ….†   (source)
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