She was as bright and cheerful as spring; but all the same, she was not sorry when she found her lodger had fled, and that they were to have the place to themselves for a month.
When Mrs. Pemberton was able to control herself she drew down her apron and said: "I never took to any other lodger I had so much as I took to this poor woman.
I must see if there is any handbook published on the subject of the 'Lodger Pigeon.
Mrs. Crawford's sympathetic next-door lodger was known to her and to Richmond as Mr. William Goddard.
Then he added with a smile, "Why, recollect, Nellie, that I myself am a lodger for business purposes in the locality.
You know as well as I do our lodger would not cut a good figure on horseback," said the brother with calm decision.
A little slow, you know, but perhaps none the worse for that when they have for a lodger such a gay young spark as I.
It would, perhaps, be unreasonable to expect that the sight of our first lodger for half-an-hour would make me perfect in the art of turning him to good account.
Mr. Ray, he is our lodger and our landlord, and hence he must be above all reproach.
The sympathetic lodger next door was not, of course, then called William Crawford.
This was Pennyloaf Candy, formerly, with her parents, a lodgerin Mrs. Peckover's house.
Don't you remember a Mr. Scawthorne, who used to be a lodger with some friends of yours called Rudd?
Her encounter with the lodger had wrought her up to the point at which she could discuss matters with Clem frankly.
Mrs. Byass never suspected the second purpose for which her lodger had desired to speak with Jane this evening.
At last the lodger had departed, and the last note of her virulence died away.
Mrs. Peckover's voice was raised in dispute with some one; it proved to be a quarrel with a female lodger respecting the sum of threepence-farthing, alleged by the landlady to be owing on some account or other.
His household consisted of a wife and daughter, an apprentice named Stephen Bellott, and one lodger, and this lodger was William Shakespeare.
An' goodness knows in these 'ard times a extra lodger is a puffeck gift of Providence.
But for him I think we couldn't keep the house going; he is the only lodger I have ever had who pays money without being asked for it.
But you needn't stop and bully me; if you remembered your duties properly you'd know that this new lodger by this time probably requires some attention.
The chief lodger of Jean Valjean's day was dead, and her place had been taken by another exactly like her.
He paid three francs a month to the old principal lodger for sweeping out his room, and bringing him every morning a little hot water, a new-laid egg, and a sou roll.
What do you want to shove another lodger in for when you know we're chock-full?
If each of us had been the only lodger there, the place would have been undoubtedly respectable, but with all the rest there, we each of us considered the society rather "mixed.
I found a note from my fellow-lodger when I got in just now, asking me to call up and see how you were getting on.
She liked her quiet lodger and to turn away business of any kind was always depressing.
So much the good landlady had told before her lodger could ask a question, and when she paused for breath he inquired whether she knew the name of the English ship.
Florence Unwin married to a joiner--a man unable to afford to keep his house free from the inevitable lodger who owned the best bedroom--the bedroom that by right should have been hers.
Edie had gone away to learn dressmaking, and Alfie had vanished into some Midland town to learn something else, and occupying his room there was another lodger whom she liked.
For Mr. Vergoe was the lodger of Number Seventeen.
Chapter 18 The Lodger In accordance with his arrangement with Hunter, Owen commenced the work in the drawing-room on the Monday morning.
In fact, he had been their lodger in their old house, and when they moved he came with them to North Street, although it was farther away from his place of business than their former residence.
So many a happy day they spent, These lads, with one another; While every lodger in the house, Thought John was Louis’ brother.
Now all Dame Europe’s deputies, They made themselves at home; And everylodger knew his bed, Likewise his sitting room.
The victim in this other instance was a native of Cheshire, also a lodger in Hare's house, who was ill with jaundice at the time the tragedy with Abigail Simpson was being enacted.
She there found Burke standing at the counter talking to the shopkeeper, and, taking advantage of the opportunity, she asked her old lodger to treat her to a dram.
The next was an Englishman, a native of Cheshire, and a lodger of Hare's.
Her character, while before not beyond reproach, had been further blackened by her notorious misconduct with a young lodgerin the house.
Joseph, the miller by trade, and a lodger of Hare's.
He was told by the landlady that he could not have a bed for himself, but would require to sleep with another lodger who was, of course, a stranger to him.
It was long odds that he would never know of the tragedy at Maldon Grange and would conclude that his lodger had vanished as secretly as he had come.
Instead of regarding these statements as drawbacks, the would-be lodger affected to receive them with every demonstration of approval.
But when her American lodger leaves her, she asks,--and who is she that can expect to keep a beautiful young lady who will be naming her own cottage and painting signboards for herself before long, likely?
American lodger is gone, how is she, Mrs. Bobby, to put by a few shillings a month towards the debt on the cottage?
The lodger had become possessed of a pistol, bought second-hand, with a view to practise on the stray cats who made a happy meeting-place of the Days' back yard.
About the devotion of young Forcus for Bessie she had her doubts, but that of the lodger she took as a matter of course.
So there you have a lodger ready to your hand, ma'am; since you fancy lodgers.
There's something mysterious about this lodger of mine.
While the landlord was musing thus, the lodger was employed in a manner which might well have awakened his curiosity, could he have beheld her at that moment.
Mr. Mulck occasionally dealt in diamonds; and he knew enough about them to perceive at a glance that the rings worn by his lodger were worth a small fortune.
Cautious enquiries elicited that brown paper being costly, and a quantity of old 'stuff' having been left by a long deceased lodger of her departed mother's, the manuscript was thus turned into use.
She gave her lodgeran inquisitive glance as she spread the tablecloth.
You'll have luck to-day," she said, regaining her feet and surveying her lodger with approval.
She took an open pride in having a lodger who indulged in a daily bath.
She had been called at about half-past five in the morning by a Mrs. Graham, the lodger who rented the room next to the deceased.
He had seen his fellow-lodger for the first time when he had passed her in the dimness of the stairs that night as he went out.
It was a very small room, with a ceiling so low that the tall lodger could only just stand upright with safety; perhaps three inches intervened between his head and the plaster, which was cracked, grimy, cobwebby.
It was sometimes the small hours of the morning before he came home, and though he had a latchkey, Jinnet could never go to bed until her lodger was in for the night.
As it was, thelodger was indifferent to breakfast, and expressed an ardent desire for Health Salts.
The lodger for the first time looked at his landlord with a suspicious eye.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "lodger" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
