The real loosers were the renters of shops, stores or saloons, where goods, tools, materials and machinery were destroyed by the intense heat, or went up wholly in flames.
"Memoirs of Orange Jacobs"
Orange Jacobs
She sets up thar, they tell me, in easy, roustabout clothes, an' attends to the business of the day-sech as readin' the mail, answerin' letters, an' listenin' to complaints from overseers an' land-renters.
"Dixie Hart"
Will N. Harben
This assurance was conveyed to Colette by John, who hoped she might find solace in the thought that none of the renters could have had it, if this were true, but to his chagrin she found in his information an implied reflection on her veracity.
"Amarilly of Clothes-line Alley"
Belle K. Maniates