Lodgings

Examples

• After waiting some time Mrs. Clements became alarmed, and ordered the cabman to drive back to her lodgings. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Hundreds of People The quiet lodgings of Doctor Manette were in a quiet street-corner not far from Soho-square. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• At the old lodgings it was understood that he was summoned to Dover, and, in fact, he was taken down the Dover road and cornered out of it. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• Her lodgings were hard by; and they threaded through the crowd without, where everything seemed to be more astir than even in the ball-room within. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• I shall go to Paris in my own carriage, and establish myself in my own lodgings, said I; and to this proposition Meyler was obliged to agree. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• I was breakfasting at the Ellisons,and her letter, with some others, was brought to me there from my lodgings. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
• It consisted simply in the hiring of quiet lodgings at Brompton, or in the neighbourhood of the barracks, for Captain and Mrs. Crawley. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Got any lodgings? Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• We carefully examined every house we passed for a bill indicative of lodgings to let; but in vain. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• Blessed if I don't think that ven a man's wery poor, he rushes out of his lodgings, and eats oysters in reg'lar desperation. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• There I saw the empress and the young princes, in their several lodgings, with their chief attendants about them. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• You must know, said he, that I am an orphan and a bachelor, residing alone in lodgings in London. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• We had not driven very far from our lodgings when we stopped in a by-street at a public-looking place lighted up with gas. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• She gave her evidence in the gamest way, and was highly complimented by the Bench, and cheered right home to her lodgings. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• And with this she passed on, and speedily found her way to Mrs. Osborne's lodgings. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.

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