Into the principal parlour of this place entered two strangers, who found themselves, as is always the case in such hostels, the object, not of fluttered curiosity or pert inquiry, but of steady, ceaseless, devouring ocular study.
"The Ball and The Cross"
G.K. Chesterton
For the convenience of pupils who cannot attend school while living at home hostels are attached to many middle and high schools.
"The Panjab, North-West Frontier Province, and Kashmir"
Sir James McCrone Douie
In this priestly quarter of Paris, with its hostels for the clergy and for religious families, as gloomy as convents, with its shops full of pious images, which flood the globe with varnished and smiling saints, was accomplished the great transformation of Gabriel.
"The Shadow of the Cathedral"
Vicente Blasco Ibañez