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Example sentences for "common lodging"

  • In a common lodging-house he met and had talk with the man who was supposed by the group about the fire to be a murderer uncaught.

  • Recent statistics show that the percentage of the death rate in common lodging-houses is appalling.

  • Also by visits to a common lodging-house she obtained much light on the views of the class that occasionally find themselves in the tramp ward.

  • No person is allowed to keep a common lodging-house unless he is registered, and a house may not be registered until it has been inspected and approved for the purpose by an officer of the council.

  • There is no definition of the expression "common lodging-house" in the Public Health Acts, and at one time the courts decided that shelters for the destitute kept by charitable persons were not common lodging-houses.

  • The cleanliness, comfort, and ventilation of the licensed rooms in common lodging-houses offer a very marked contrast to those which are unlicensed.

  • The houses which he devoted to this purpose, solely for his own profit, were placed under the control and inspection of the police, and had to be registered as "Common Lodging Houses.

  • A fair percentage have come to envelope-directing in a common lodging-house through drink, others through an act that has caused them to forfeit the character essential for a re-engagement.

  • Among the men I have met in a common lodging-house is one who, every now and then, is interviewed in the common kitchen by his family solicitor.

  • These men live in common lodging houses, and are well satisfied with a place to sleep and enough food to keep body and soul together.

  • They all detested the "Masher," because he was earning more than a pound a week on a good paper stand, and was also in receipt of a good pension; and they all cried shame on him for living in a common lodging house.

  • Come to a common lodging-house, and see what class of people fill the beds at fourpence a night.

  • From a common lodging-house and from the tenement houses I have quoted the cases given above.

  • A portion of this very Farm House in the Mint is a common lodging-house, and it is a place the most refined lady might enter and inspect without the slightest repugnance.

  • All these poor invalids in common lodging-houses are under the impression that doctors, when they find that their patients have no friends, and cannot be thoroughly cured, kill them.

  • XV Favouritism One of the worst enemies to a poor man in a common lodging-house is favouritism.

  • Probably none, or at any rate very few, of my readers have had a practical experience of common lodging-houses.

  • Others had known and appreciated the comforts of refined life, yet they were happy and content amidst the horror and dirt of a common lodging-house!


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    clear himself; common carriers; common cause; common centre; common cold; common experience; common humanity; common interest; common knowledge; common language; common measure; common opinion; common origin; common plan; common roads; common salt; common saying; common sight; common speech; commonly applied; commonly made; focal length; imported food; more effectual; someone else; south pole