Literary notes about Tenant (AI summary)
Across many literary works the term "tenant" is employed in a richly multifaceted manner. In some contexts it is used in its conventional sense—the renter bound by a lease, responsible for repairs or contractual obligations, as seen when tenants are depicted as financially liable or symbolically significant to property transactions ([1], [2], [3]). Yet authors like Du Bois and Kersey Graves also elevate the notion into more abstract realms, where “tenant” conveys the idea of an inherent, occupying element, whether in a belief system ([4], [5]) or as a metaphor for social condition and transience ([6], [7]). Even in narratives that evoke mystery or subtle domestic dynamics, the tenant becomes a figure through whom themes of dependence, responsibility, and impermanence are deftly explored ([8], [9]).
- When parties owning houses have gone south, and the tenant has given his notes for the rent in advance?
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. Sherman - If there were damages to pay, the tenant had to foot them.
— from How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York by Jacob A. Riis - The tenant pays the rent to the quartermaster, who gives a bond of indemnity against the notes representing the debt for the particular rent.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. Sherman - A belief in angels or spirits is a tenant of each religion.
— from The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors; Or, Christianity Before Christ by Kersey Graves - Baptism by water is a tenant and ordinance of each.
— from The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors; Or, Christianity Before Christ by Kersey Graves - Their three graves were there, rising above the ground, and a fourth was also there, yawning for its ghastly tenant.
— from Twenty years after by Alexandre Dumas and Auguste Maquet - The direct result of this system is an all-cotton scheme of agriculture and the continued bankruptcy of the tenant.
— from The Souls of Black Folk by W. E. B. Du Bois - On the other hand, if I should find the hut and its tenant should not be within it I must remain there, however long the vigil, until he returned.
— from The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle - With tingling nerves but a fixed purpose, I sat in the dark recess of the hut and waited with sombre patience for the coming of its tenant.
— from The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle
