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  • But there was to him a charm in that old hotel, and the richest 'locataire' therein was not treated with a respect so ceremonious as that which at tended the lodger on the fourth story.

    The Parisians — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

  • But there was to him a charm in that old hotel, and the richest 'locataire' therein was not treated with a respect so ceremonious as that which at tended the lodger on the fourth story.

    The Parisians — Volume 01 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

  • The squat toilets of the old apartment houses, one by the side of the stairs on each floor with two cleated cement shoe-shaped elevations on each side of the aperture so a locataire would not slip, emptied into cesspools which were emptied by pumping into horse-drawn tank wagons at night.

    Book Excerpt: ‘A Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition’ 2009

  • I listened; not a mouse stirred; perhaps I had dreamt it; perhaps a locataire had made a mistake, and entered my apartment instead of his own.

    The Professor, by Charlotte Bronte 2006

  • Ah non, plus d'un après, il a retrouvé locataire depuis longtemps…

    Appartement à  louer (Eclépens, 2.5p) — Climb to the Stars 2004

  • The squat toilets of the old apartment houses, one by the side of the stairs on each floor with the two cleated cement shoe-shaped elevations on each side of the aperture so a locataire would not slip, emptied into cesspools which were emptied by pumping into horse-drawn tank wagons at night.

    A Moveable Feast Ernest Hemingway 1992

  • The squat toilets of the old apartment houses, one by the side of the stairs on each floor with the two cleated cement shoe-shaped elevations on each side of the aperture so a locataire would not slip, emptied into cesspools which were emptied by pumping into horse-drawn tank wagons at night.

    A Moveable Feast Ernest Hemingway 1992

  • The squat toilets of the old apartment houses, one by the side of the stairs on each floor with the two cleated cement shoe-shaped elevations on each side of the aperture so a locataire would not slip, emptied into cesspools which were emptied by pumping into horse-drawn tank wagons at night.

    A Moveable Feast Ernest Hemingway 1992

  • The squat toilets of the old apartment houses, one by the side of the stairs on each floor with the two cleated cement shoe-shaped elevations on each side of the aperture so a locataire would not slip, emptied into cesspools which were emptied by pumping into horse-drawn tank wagons at night.

    A Moveable Feast Ernest Hemingway 1992

  • The squat toilets of the old apartment houses, one by the side of the stairs on each floor with the two cleated cement shoe-shaped elevations on each side of the aperture so a locataire would not slip, emptied into cesspools which were emptied by pumping into horse-drawn tank wagons at night.

    A Moveable Feast Ernest Hemingway 1992

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