I've hadlodgers that I might call permanent, in a manner of speaking; but I never had any one that I took to as I took to Miss Nowell, though she was hardly with me three weeks from first to last.
You have somelodgers here--a lady and gentleman called Holbrook.
You have no idea of the horrible tricks he played off upon all the lodgers as well as us.
The city took lodgers on an old barge in the East River, that winter, and kept a register of them.
The fierce competition for a bare living cuts down wages; and when loss of work is added, the only thing left is to take in lodgers to meet the landlord's claim.
They are large and beautiful structures, which, for the price of a cot in one of the Bowery barracks, furnish their lodgers with as good a bed in a private room as the boarder in the Waldorf-Astoria enjoys.
My mother, having lost her lodgers by her ill temper and continual quarrelling with her neighbours, had resorted to washing and getting up of fine linen, at which she was very expert, and earned a good deal of money.
My mother was still as busy as ever, attempting to obtain lodgers in her house who were people of family, and this unwearied system was a source of great vexation to my sister.
I could not at first imagine what made my mother so anxious to have lodgers in the house, as they must have proved a great nuisance to her, and her circumstances were above such an infliction.
Holding to his purpose, Shelley went for the south, leaving his bride and the incomparable Hogg fellow-lodgers in the same dingy dwelling, and sharers of the same dingy parlour.
Other kinds are lodgers all their lives, though they change their hosts, not to say their establishment, accordingly to their age and constitution.
In spite of this affluence of lodgers the bird did not appear to be in the least inconvenienced.
The first-floor lodgers sent up a servant with a message.
I vas opliged to play to keep him kviet, and the virst-floor lodgers vas komm up to tell me to be kviet!
If by chance peace reigned in the three households, the other lodgers were not the less victims of this temporary concord.
As a token of rejoicing the landlord gave a grand dinner, and the lodgers lit up their windows.
Past midnight," she murmured, "and all the lodgers are within.
Why, I said that if he could arrange with Mr. Gridley, I could arrange it with the other lodgers and should not so much mind its being liked or disliked in the yard.
She would much have preferred lodgers who were respectable to those who were not so,--if she could only have found respectable lodgers as she wanted them.
I hope you'll be more lucky with your lodgers than I have been with some of mine.
She no sooner entered the passage, than she found her fellow-lodgers already assembled on the same occasion; and there they remained during the best part of the night, transported by the harmony which our hero produced.
This was rather awkward,--not on account of the loss, but of the unavoidable fact that one of my fellow-lodgers must have taken it.
In autumn of 1833, having both of us migrated from Gottingen to Berlin for the prosecution of our studies, we became fellow-lodgers in the house No.
When that gladiator had disappeared from the arena, peace ensued, and the new lodgers dined.
They are also addressed by some half-dozen other hideous small boys--whether twopenny lodgers or followers or hangers-on of such, who knows!
You must bear with me, Mrs. Bunting, if I seem a little, just a little, unlike the lodgersyou have been accustomed to.
Since they had come to London not a single pair of lodgers had been even moderately respectable and kindly.
How can we hope to get lodgers if they can't even see the card?
Many lodgers have died there, and I can positively assert that that flat was at some time cursed by someone, and that together with its human lodgers there was always another lodger, unseen, living in it.
The third month, I did not get a farthing, and the porter complained to me that the lodgers in No.
The fact is, that I call to make some inquiries Have not you lodgers here?
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "lodgers" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
