How To Use Lodgings In A Sentence

She had, however, genteel lodgings, a spinnet on which she played, and a boy that walked before her chair. The Life of Samuel Johnson LL.D.
Left his lodgings at ten o'clock at night, and has not been heard of since. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Akhana looked at the lodgings and gave the cab driver a good tip for his service.
He fled after three weeks, hating his lonely lodgings and missing all the fun of London. Times, Sunday Times
What kinde of rafters? what manner of roofe? after what sort the Parlors chambers, closets and lodgings, were disposed? with what kind of seeling they were enclosed and incrusted? wherewithall hanged? with what couler and kinde of painting ouerhead? Hypnerotomachia The Strife of Loue in a Dreame

When she went away, I called a hackney-coach for her, and getting behind it, went home with her to her lodgings. Valerie
Mrs. Plummet shed real tears when I told her my good news at six o'clock that night; and more tears a fortnight later when I moved out of my little hall bedroom, and my feather-weight trunk, lightsomely balanced on the shoulders of one man, was conveyed to the express-wagon and thence to new lodgings in Irving Place. The Fifth Wheel A Novel
The marquis gave his friend a disparaging look and left the lodgings without another word.
During the many relief visits I paid that winter in tenement houses and miserable lodgings, I was constantly shadowed by a certain sense of shame that I should be comfortable in the midst of such distress. Twenty Years at Hull-House, With Autobiographical Notes
But where she went to nobody must know, for fear young ladies should begin to fancy that there are water-babies there! and so hunt and howk after them (besides raising the price of lodgings), and keep them in aquariums, as the ladies at Pompeii (as you may see by the paintings) used to keep Cupids in cages. The Water Babies
Ambrogio then made his way back to his lodgings, recharged his harquebuss, ate some supper and went to bed. Renaissance in Italy, Volumes 1 and 2 The Catholic Reaction
The traders had come into the village early that morning requesting lodgings for the night.
In some of his trysts, he adopted the persona of his famous novel's protagonist; in a 1765 letter to "Lady P" he wrote, "There is a strange mechanical effect produced in [being] within a stonecast of the lady who engrosses the heart and soul of an inamorato - for this cause have I, Tristram Shandy, come forth from my lodgings to a coffee-house the nearest I could find to my dear Lady's house. APM: Garrison Keillor's The Writer's Almanac RSS Feed
I'm on the hunt for lodgings.
For all the day before they had well advised the place and said among themselves: If the Englishmen come on us suddenly, then we will do thus and thus, for it is a jeopardous thing in the night if men of war enter into our lodgings. The Battle of Otterburn. How Sir Henry Percy and His Brother with a Good Number of Men of Arms and Archers Went after the Scots, to Win Again His Pennon That the Earl Douglas Had Won before Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, and How They Assailed the Scots before Otter
Pretty soon after my arrival I found lodgings.
Little women are notoriously pugnacious, and, as a matter of 250 copies of the "Old-fashioned Girl" have also found lodgings on the library shelves, no wonder that there was a "muss" on the premises. Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 20, August 13, 1870
Superficially thick walls are honeycombed with passages and chambers serving individual suites and lodgings.
Their smiling slide from need to greed takes lodgings in your brain. Times, Sunday Times
Walk east to find lodgings.
Baroness Stratheden slept at lodgings which he had frequently occupied as a circuiteer. A Book About Lawyers
I have been told on good authority that in the town (lodgings, as opposed to a college) one can live quite decently on 16 or at most 20 crowns: also that sometimes three or four students, or more, take a house or a room, and then club together and engage a cook, and that their weekly bills scarcely amount to a teston < 1/5 of a crown > a head. The Age of Erasmus Lectures Delivered in the Universities of Oxford and London
From my own experience of reading parties, I should select as their peculiar characteristics, a tendency to hats and caps of such remarkable shapes, as, if once sported in the college quadrangle, would be the subject of a common-room _instanter_; and, among some individuals (whom we may call the peripatetic philosophers of the party) a predilection for seedy shooting-coats and short pipes, with which they perambulate the neighbourhood to the marvel of the aboriginal inhabitants; while those whom we may class with the stoics, display a preference for dressing-gowns and meerschaums, and confine themselves principally to the doorways and open windows of their respective lodgings. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 54, No. 334, August 1843
The club's apprentices will now be placed with local families who will provide lodgings and assist with their personal development.
Whatever may be the end of the susbscription, or of your more immediate exertions, Sir, to serve me, I cannot hesitate to inform you that the clothing my youngest daughter, and the entire support of my Son in lodgings, still call for what I cannot continue to give without thus soliciting and obtaining something to keep the wheels going which I have put in motion. Letter 317
At some distance from the more frequented parts of the city, a man may hire a large house for thirty crowns a year: but near the center, you cannot have good lodgings, ready furnished, for less than a scudo (about five shillings) a day. Travels through France and Italy
Simple Life, to be sure; but if you are in German lodgings for any length of time you probably desire for one reason or the other to lead it. Home Life in Germany
He made his first journey to Paris in 1830 to work for his uncle, then moved to the same lodgings used by his father in his youth, and shared a room with a dozen migrants from his native commune.
The Duke of York's lodgings at both palaces were remodelled and refurnished in anticipation of the 1673 marriage.
David had changed his lodgings, leaving no address behind.
My grandfather, for his part, had found lodgings for the two boys through an advertisement in a church magazine.
No one's perch overlooks anyone else's - even in the less expensive rooms and lodgings.
I decided I, too, would flit among the islands in search of cheap lodgings, wonderful food, clean, unspoilt beaches and, most important, crumpet.
Depending upon the exact location of his lodgings and the circuitousness of his route, Mr. Lorry's walk may have been slightly longer or slightly shorter.
He swore every oath imaginable at her, insolently ordering her to be off with her child, and find lodgings with the villain to whom she had prostituted herself, or else he would soon pitch her and her little bratling into the Thames. The Black-Sealed Letter Or, The Misfortunes of a Canadian Cockney.
Even in locations where members of the royal family were due to stay in the home of a local gentleman, knight or nobleman, further lodgings were needed in the vicinity for the large number of other personnel in the train.
They are also helping those who end up being evicted to find lodgings in empty homes, many of them owned by the banks. Times, Sunday Times
Born in London in 1914 and educated at private schools, he never knew his father and grew up in lodgings with a mother who was as improvident as she was unpresentable.
My grandfather, for his part, had found lodgings for the two boys through an advertisement in a church magazine.
Robert, who has been favourably known for some years as one of our rising lyrists, committed suicide at his lodgings at Solentsea on Saturday evening last by shooting himself in the right temple with a revolver.
Born in London in 1914 and educated at private schools, he never knew his father and grew up in lodgings with a mother who was as improvident as she was unpresentable.
Also they lodged there at their ease, for there was none that troubled them: they made many lodgings of boughs and great herbs and fortified their camp sagely with the marish that was thereby, and their carriages were set at the entry into the marishes and had all their beasts within the marish. Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series)
But if you have money enough for finer clothes and high-toned lodgings, then you might be planning to cozen the rich or insinuate yourself into society or spy on the powerful or throw money around without necessarily making sure some of it goes into the pockets of the powerful. Pathfinder
They live in lodgings or tiny, comfortless flats, on a meagre allowance or none.
Out of that you had to take out your lodgings, and all your expenses. Times, Sunday Times
In his previous lodgings, Auden had kept scrupulously to his schedule of writing sessions interrupted only by meals and a tea-time snifter, then bed at 10 pm.
I walk back towards my lodgings on Broad Street, which is the main thoroughfare through town.
Workers' hourly rates of pay also include allowances for board and lodgings.
She knew from experience things which would be of use to her--things about lodgings and things about shops. Emily Fox-Seton
If you are trekking, basic food and lodgings are all part of the fun. Times, Sunday Times
Most frequently it seems it was either the abbot's lodgings or, as at Lacock Abbey, some of the claustral buildings which were adapted.
WuHan FengXiang Island International Conference Centre Supplies lodgings dining conference, commerce, entertainment, tourism, etc.
Mrs. Bardell let lodgings to many conversable single gentlemen, with great profit, but never brought any more actions for breach of promise of marriage. The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club
In Frunze, we could stay with an old aunt of mine until we found better lodgings. Somewhere East of Life
Annual boarding fees are 9,500 to cover food and lodgings, but there are no tuition fees for any pupils. Times, Sunday Times
Each section of the country will provide an excellent scenic day trip and inexpensive lodgings can be found.
Almost immediately this was surrounded by a lower battery providing fourteen further gun positions, while about 1550 a battlemented entrance block was built containing the governor's lodgings.
Indeed, after the canescent heat of the day, and the tossing of our ill-conditioned vessel, we should have been contented with lodgings far less luxurious. Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah
Sir John walked there some time, expecting the reappearance of the knight, whom he intended to assist in leading home; but after an hour, finding no signs of regress from the palace, and thinking his father might be wondering at his delay, he turned his steps towards his own lodgings. The Scottish Chiefs
I daresay there is not enough space at your lodgings, and I have already become Mr. Wade's home for neglected animals.
_ Bid the footman receive the trunks and portmantua; and see them placed in the lodgings you have taken for me, while I walk a turn here in the garden. The works of John Dryden, $c now first collected in eighteen volumes. $p Volume 06
She is now at Dover, in lodgings, for the benefit of sea air; and has invited me there since Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle
For its Self-Guided Winter Engadine Holiday, Ryder-Walker books lodgings, transfers luggage, and provides hikers with detailed maps of their routes. Wintertime Rambles
Left his lodgings at ten o'clock at night, and has not been heard of since. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Overnight accommodation varied, from the the casual wards of local workhouses to more friendly lodgings and municipally-arranged feasts.
He was an asylum seeker and his lodgings were provided by Safe Haven, a Sheffield-based housing organisation.
We are in lodgings here: I have a quiet room, and sleep better. New Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle
Sr, I was greatly refreshed to see your fface, & did cale at your Lodgings & your excelent Brothers (whom I had the ffauor of some acquaintance with at Rotterdam, 26 years agoe, § to whom, Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society
David had changed his lodgings, leaving no address behind.
On the recommendation of the hotel owner, we made our way to other lodgings for the evening.
‘Ow, man! ye should hae hadden eassel to Kippletringan; ye maun gae back as far as the whaap, and baud the whaap till ye come to Ballenloan, and then — ‘This will never do, good dame! my horse is almost quite knocked up; can you not give me a night’s lodgings?’ Guy Mannering
Terry pushed his regrets aside with a sigh and kept walking, hoping to find suitable lodgings for the night.
I got free board and lodgings and a great experience. The Sun
But persuading the elusive birds to quit their historic lodgings has proved to be quite a headache.
It was not the only small adventure concerning homes and lodgings.
You earn up to 320 per week with free lodgings and perks. The Sun
Workers' hourly rates of pay also include allowances for board and lodgings.
Pretty soon after my arrival I found lodgings.
Sundays were further elevated as the principal court day with new regulations governing behaviour at chapel, and the privacy and dignity of Charles's privy lodgings were reinforced.
His first lodgings were at the house of Mr. Norris, a staymaker, in Exeter-street, adjoining The Life of Samuel Johnson LL.D.
Horton, Mr: Bloomfield's landlord and employer when he lived in lodgings, working as a shoemaker, in Index of People
They live in lodgings or tiny, comfortless flats, on a meagre allowance or none.
But they must remove to cheaper lodgings, and the rooms in Duke Street had been far from desirable. Emily Fox-Seton
Walk east to find lodgings.
Lodgings, the Chapter House ( "the exquisite small chapel," stanza lxvi. line 5), the "slype" or passage between church and Chapter House; and in the upper story, the state bedrooms, named after the kings, Edward III., The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 6
Halsall. she asserts, will not return any answer, and although she is only in private lodgings she is continually being thwarted and vilipended by Carney, ‘whose tongue needs clipping’.
I am never domesticated in lodgings the hearth is unhallowed & the Letter 168
The remainder are in supported lodgings, community homes or in residential care.
Halsall. she asserts, will not return any answer, and although she is only in private lodgings she is continually being thwarted and vilipended by Carney, ‘whose tongue needs clipping’. A Memoir of Mrs. Behn
He travelled over to Dublin a month before the entrance examinations and stayed in cheap lodgings in the city. Times, Sunday Times
Having established themselves in lodgings, they wasted no time in putting together a set of proposals.
Adult passes start at $ 499 for eight days and come with discount coupons for lodgings, tours and attractions.
According to the letter which he sent to his superiors (published at the beginning of Mansi's thirty-eighth volume), the chief abuses to be corrected by the ablegate were: (1) The Maronite bishops, in virtue of an ancient custom, had in their households a certain number of religious women, whose lodgings were, as a rule, separated from the bishop's only by a door of communication. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy
Cheap lodgings and a shift away from family entertainment have made the capital of glam a top business stop.
Subsequently when Sulla was in the possession of power and was putting many to death, a man of the class of Libertini, who was suspected of concealing a proscribed person, and for this offence was going to be thrown down the Tarpeian rock, reproached Sulla with the fact that they had lived together for some time in one house; that he had paid two thousand sestertii for his lodgings, which were in the upper part of the house, and Sulla three thousand for the lower rooms; and, consequently, that between their fortunes there was only the difference of a thousand sestertii, which is equivalent to two hundred and fifty Attic drachmæ. Plutarch's Lives, Volume II
A short time later Wilhelm rose from the bench and setout for his lodgings. FORGE OF EMPIRES 1861-1871
Both the New Town and the Old Town offer numerous lodgings in private houses and small family hotels.
Left his lodgings at ten o'clock at night, and has not been heard of since. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Many of the tiny lodgings were built in the 1930s and have never been upgraded.
[Page 183] before engaged lodgings: they are not so pleasantly situated as those we occupied at Ilfracombe; but they are comfortable; and our hostess is a good woman, who takes pains to please us. Memoirs, Correspondence and Poetical Remains of Jane Taylor
There'd been an old drifter who'd stopped by for lodgings with his ragged hat and scarf, everything he owned in a beat-up pack.
The Stoney Brook Preserve is an intensely managed, multi-habitat property with lodgings that offers deer, pheasant, dove, chukar, Hungarian partridge, duck, bass and trout fishing.
‘Ow, man! ye should hae hadden eassel to Kippletringan; ye maun gae back as far as the whaap, and baud the whaap till ye come to Ballenloan, and then — ‘This will never do, good dame! my horse is almost quite knocked up; can you not give me a night’s lodgings?’ Guy Mannering
She finds a job and lodgings and slowly begins to build a life for herself in the adult world.
MY DEAR FRIEND: I received by the last post a letter from Abbe Guasco, in which he joins his representations to those of Lord Albemarle, against your remaining any longer in your very bad lodgings at the Academy; and, as I do not find that any advantage can arise to you from being 'interne' in an academy which is full as far from the riding-house and from all your other masters, as your lodgings will probably be, I agree to your removing to an 'hotel garni'; the Abbe will help you to find one, as I desire him by the inclosed, which you will give him. Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman, 1751
He has the shop and the lodgings above and makes a good living out of collecting rent payments - when his lodgers pay up on time.
As accounts were frequently disarrayed in towns like Dunnsbroke, he took up lodgings in Mrs. Winscombe's boardinghouse; his job would not be a quick one. Rev. Jasper Pickery and Three Manifestations of the Devil
Yes, there were 30 pieces of silver - but they were given to him to purchase food and lodgings, not as blood money... and so on. Times, Sunday Times
For much of European history barracks were the exception rather than the rule, and soldiers were billeted in civilian lodgings or public houses.
Slopeside lodgings cost more, but often you are spared the expense of renting a car.
Abbot's lodging; the cellarer's lodging; the poulter house: the gardner; the almary, and all other houses and lodgings not otherwise reserved, "were" deemed to be superfluous "and were committed to the custody of Sir John Whittington. Bell's Cathedrals: The Abbey Church of Tewkesbury with some Account of the Priory Church of Deerhurst Gloucestershire
But one man said that he was better off as he normally handed all his benefit, bar the odd sixpence, straight to his mother for board and lodgings.
This man had the air of a person who is seeking lodgings, and he seemed to halt, by preference, at the most modest houses on that dilapidated border of the faubourg Saint – Marceau. Les Miserables
It does not provide for the chance for a rest now and then, for decent food and lodgings, or the other little happinesses that this dusky laboratory allows its slaves.
One of the grandest old lodgings is the Jamaican Inn perched on a cliff above a secluded slice of beach.
We went on being very sorry about Miss Sandal being so poor, and it was not our fault that when we tried to let the house in lodgings, the first lodger proved to be a lunatic of the deepest dye. New Treasure Seekers
: _And kings shall be thy nursing-fathers, and queens_, i.e., commonwealths, _shall be thy nursing-mothers_, i.e., of the Church, they shall afford lodgings to churches and pious studies. The Divine Right of Church Government by Sundry Ministers Of Christ Within The City Of London
The grant to rebuild barely covered the demolition—which left them with the remainder of the mortgage to pay every month while renting substitute lodgings and trying to reclothe their children. Archive 2008-02-01
I shall not write to mother and sisters to say we be married, as I said I would do; and I shan't finish the good-hussif 'I cut out and meant to make while we were in lodgings.' Tess of the d'Urbervilles
Beatrix’s daughter, Thea, comes to hold a special place in Rosamund’s affections when Beatrix turns up at her college lodgings one day, small child in tow, and asks Rosamund to babysit for a couple of weeks while she chases yet another man to Canada. The Rain Before It Falls « Tales from the Reading Room
'In the front of the house a square greene court, and a curious gatehouse with lodgings in it, standing with the front of the house to the south; in a large outer court three stables, a coach-house, a large barne, and a stable for oxen and kyne, and all houses necessary. A Changed Man; and other tales
Students not in residential places usually rent accommodation or take lodgings in the city.
Where to stay: Numerous mid-level chain lodgings are located outside the historic downtown area. Mark Twain's celebrated Missouri hometown is jumping again
Augustus, notwithstanding his vapoury insubjection, visited his father and the partners in the bank, leaving his bride in snug lodgings at a respectable distance from all. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 54, No. 338, December 1843
In the autumn, she went back to London, to new lodgings in Leicester Square. PERDITA: The Life of Mary Robinson
London, and went several times to see Isabel, who was ill in lodgings in The Romance of Isabel, Lady Burton
She had her keep, her board and lodgings and five or six shillings a week. Lost Voices of the Edwardians: 19011910 in the words of the Men & Women Who Were There
Most had stumbled drunkenly out into the streets or had retired to the guest lodgings upstairs.
We were picked up at the airport by a friend of a friend of a B&B owner and whisked off to our first night's lodgings.
They supplied the kit, the manager gave me food and lodgings, and I had a phonecard to call my family. Sandro: 'I told my brother: I'll be the player we should both have been'
Ask little Tom Prig, who is there in all his glory, knows everybody, has a story about every one; and, as he trips home to his lodgings in Jermyn Street, with his gibus-hat and his little glazed pumps, thinks he is the fashionablest young fellow in town, and that he really has passed a night of exquisite enjoyment. The Book of Snobs
He lives down the road from my lodgings and bounced in unexpectedly during breakfast last week.
If you are trekking, basic food and lodgings are all part of the fun. Times, Sunday Times
I made up my mind that I would never confess to my small harmless Etna in German lodgings again, and would bolt the door while I boiled water for tea in it. Home Life in Germany
He would tell us rambling stories - such as the one about two flies called Izzy and Dizzy who travelled about the country staying in cheap lodgings - perhaps based on his own recollection.
I'll be moving to the area as soon as I can find lodgings.
Many employers will not consider someone who provides a hostel or bed & breakfast lodgings as an address.
-- Ask little Tom Prig, who is there in all his glory, knows everybody, has a story about every one; and, as he trips home to his lodgings in Jermyn Street, with his gibus-hat and his little glazed pumps, thinks he is the fashionablest young fellow in town, and that he really has passed a night of exquisite enjoyment. The Book of Snobs
The public funds the luxury lodgings of judges to the tune of £5.6 million a year.
It was Taine who famously described the Jacobin revolution as the product of an impoverished salariat, an oversupply of educated labour: "students in garrets, bohemians in lodgings, physicians without patients and lawyers without clients in lonely Offices…so many Marats, Robespierres, and St Justs in embryo. The Guardian World News
Other changes meant that agricultural workers became less dependent on their employers for lodgings and could therefore marry younger.
-- _A Narrative, etc. _, by W. Bligh, 1790, pp. 23, 24.] {100} [121] [ "[As] our lodgings were very miserable and confined, I had only in my power to remedy the latter defect, by putting ourselves _at watch and watch_; so that _one half_ always sat up, while the other half The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 6
However, for anyone on a tight budget, our listings below represent some of the best value low-cost hostel/student lodgings in central London.
That, madam, must be your part; you must take a house and see company; in a little while you may keep an assembly, and play at cards as high as you can; and almost all the money that is won must be put into the box, which you must call _paying for the cards_; though it is indeed paying for your candles, your cloaths, your lodgings, and, in short, everything you have. The Works of Henry Fielding Edited by George Saintsbury in 12 Volumes $p Volume 12
A 24-year-old hawker, formerly living in lodgings in Byron Street, Bradford and now of Salford, was found not guilty of silvering 24 pennies and nine halfpennies with intent to make them resemble florins and shillings.
But then a year ago he could still call up the horror of the communal plunge at his earlier lodgings: the listening for other bathers, the dodging of shrouded ladies in "crimping" - pins, the cold wait on the landing, the reluctant descent into a blotchy tin bath, and the effort to identify one's soap and nail-brush among the promiscuous implements of ablution. Full Circle
Letting lodgings is one of the most unpleasant of all possible ways of earning your living, and I advise you to try every other honest way of earning your living before you take to that. The House of Arden
I quite agree that people should pay for their board and lodgings, but not medical care.
His pay was three pounds and 10 shillings a week, with board and lodgings.
‘After giving some of his benefits to his parents for his board and lodgings he spends the rest on alcohol,’ he said.
For all the day before they had well advised the place and said among themselves: 'If the Englishmen come on us suddenly, then we will do thus and thus, for it is a jeopardous thing in the night if men of war enter into our lodgings. Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series)
So various devices have been evolved for dealing with the overflows, a favourite of which has been to build lodgings on meadowland owned by the colleges next to the Cam.

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