Paying Guest

And the boarder who eats them is often not a boarder at all, but a paying-guest. ❋ Henry Louis (1921)

True enough he often calls a boarder a paying-guest, but that is probably because even a lady may occasionally take one in. ❋ Henry Louis (1921)

It was for him, she had said, that she wanted to secure a new paying-guest who had plenty of money to put into the "system," and who loved gambling better than anything else. ❋ M. Leone Bracker (1901)

It was better, he said, to think of her being well cared for as a highly-valued paying-guest in one of the Lofoden Islands than to have her struggling miserably home in a maimed and mutilated condition. ❋ 1870-1916 Saki (1893)

Big offers plopped in to her lap when she moved to Mumbai, rented paying-guest digs, got a directory with the numbers of photographers, film and TV producers and directors ( "most of them wrong") and started calling them up. ❋ Unknown (2010)

University said, "I had some leftovers from last night that I heated up and ate; my friends in the paying-guest accommodation went over to a friend's house, where they cooked together." ❋ Unknown (2010)