Lodgers

Various restrictions, e.g. it is forbidden to keep poultry or pigeons, take in lodgers, sub-let, or start any kind of business without leave from the Corporation. ❋ Unknown (1937)

The more amazing confession came after, for when she was pressed to tell us something about the young lady, she declared stoutly that she had never seen one, and that the Messrs. Picton -- for so she called her lodgers -- kept no female company, and very rarely had asked even a gentleman to their rooms. ❋ Max Pemberton (1906)

Mrs. Dove had a great many lodgers -- she let rooms on each of her floors, and she called her lodgers by the name of the floor they occupied -- first floor, second floor, third floor came and went to 10, ❋ L. T. Meade (1884)

His description of the relationships between foreigners and the local people, as epitomised by his parents, his father's superiors, Amercian sailors, long-term lodgers in the hotels and their employees, shopkeepers, servants and ordinary locals, is acute, with observations worthy of a sociologist's. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The lodgers were a floating population, largely foreigners, who used to turn up without luggage, stay a week and then disappear again. ❋ Unknown (2004)

Petrovna Buchmisteroff rents the coach-house and stable, with the exception of two stalls, and has three household servants: that is the kind of lodgers I have. ❋ Unknown (1952)

One job we had was termed "lodgers" and consisted of meeting the ❋ Pat Beauchamp Washington (N/A)

There is a kind of lodgers worth especial mention. ❋ William Duthie (N/A)

They couldn’t, they complained perpetually, get the kind of lodgers they wantedgood-class ‘commercial gentlemen’ who paid full board and were out all day. ❋ Unknown (1937)

Mole, with his little tobacco shop in front as a blind, and his rooms above rented to "lodgers," thus housing the gang of Apaches that worked under his leadership, had had every opportunity, once the Tocsin was in his power in there, of doing as he would. ❋ Unknown (1909)

To speak of lodgers as of cattle, he was a prize creature. ❋ Rudyard Kipling (1900)

We are really fortunate in our "lodgers," they are all such pleasant people. ❋ Unknown (1863)

We have three more "lodgers" now, really our house seems quite elastic, we thought it full to overflowing when Mrs. Stone came, but now we accommodate these ladies very well. ❋ Unknown (1863)

They couldn’t, they complained perpetually, get the kind of lodgers they wanted — good-class ‘commercial gentlemen’ who paid full board and were out all day. ❋ Unknown (2004)

“Lieutenant-Colonel Potogonkin has lived with me seven years, seven years already; Anna Petrovna Buchmisteroff rents the coach-house and stable, with the exception of two stalls, and has three household servants: that is the kind of lodgers I have. ❋ Unknown (2003)

Yurt lodgers can hike in a Patagonian ice field or take a camel ride through the remote Gobi-Altai foothills, and still end the day with a hot shower, a toasty fireplace, star-view skylights and a warm and dry bed. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Bottom line: If the sound level is seriously unsatisfactory for the lodgers, you may never hear the end of it. ❋ Jeffrey Shaffer (2011)

It was not unusual for the lodgers in the house or the men who worked in the barber shops or the other shops on the street to have a friend, someone they had known at home perhaps, someone they could be seen with or could depend on. ❋ Colm Tóibín (2011)