lodgers

Various restrictions, e.g. it is forbidden to keep poultry or pigeons, take in lodgers, sub-let, or start any kind of business without leave from the Corporation.

The Road to Wigan Pier 1937

The more amazing confession came after, for when she was pressed to tell us something about the young lady, she declared stoutly that she had never seen one, and that the Messrs. Picton -- for so she called her lodgers -- kept no female company, and very rarely had asked even a gentleman to their rooms.

The Man Who Drove the Car Max Pemberton 1906

Mrs. Dove had a great many lodgers -- she let rooms on each of her floors, and she called her lodgers by the name of the floor they occupied -- first floor, second floor, third floor came and went to 10,

The Palace Beautiful A Story for Girls L. T. Meade 1884

His description of the relationships between foreigners and the local people, as epitomised by his parents, his father's superiors, Amercian sailors, long-term lodgers in the hotels and their employees, shopkeepers, servants and ordinary locals, is acute, with observations worthy of a sociologist's.

A Guy's Moleskine Notebook 2010

The lodgers were a floating population, largely foreigners, who used to turn up without luggage, stay a week and then disappear again.

Down and Out in Paris and London 2004

Petrovna Buchmisteroff rents the coach-house and stable, with the exception of two stalls, and has three household servants: that is the kind of lodgers I have.

Taras Bulba and Other Tales 1952

One job we had was termed "lodgers" and consisted of meeting the

Fanny Goes to War Pat Beauchamp Washington

There is a kind of lodgers worth especial mention.

A Tramp's Wallet stored by an English goldsmith during his wanderings in Germany and France William Duthie

They couldn’t, they complained perpetually, get the kind of lodgers they wantedgood-class ‘commercial gentlemen’ who paid full board and were out all day.

The Road to Wigan Pier 1937

Mole, with his little tobacco shop in front as a blind, and his rooms above rented to "lodgers," thus housing the gang of Apaches that worked under his leadership, had had every opportunity, once the Tocsin was in his power in there, of doing as he would.

The Further Adventures of Jimmie Dale 1909