lodging-house

I came to the following evening, in a water-front lodging-house.

Chapter 14 2010

They have smiles and greetings for everybody -- for you, without the price of a glass of beer in your pocket, for the timid hobo who lurks in the corner and who certainly hasn't a vote, but who may establish a lodging-house registration.

Chapter 14 2010

And with regard to "The Night Café," he wrote, "Well, to the great delight of the lodging-house keeper, the postman whom I've already painted, the prowling night-visitors and myself, for 3 nights I stayed up to paint, going to bed during the day"—none of which sounds terribly dissonant.

A Stranger to Himself Jonathan Lopez 2011

In the book's most daring story, a boy from Pakistan working in a barber's shop and selling mobile phones, one of an exploited workforce of immigrants whose lives are contained by their lodging-house and their Muslim community, falls in love with a fellow-worker.

The Empty Family by Colm Tóibín – Review Hermione Lee 2010

It was his mother, the over-apologetic, proud little lodging-house proprietor whose standards he never managed to reach and who never loved him as she loved his younger brother.

The Mastery of Georges Simenon 2010

The world is not a lodging-house at Brighton, which we are to leave because it is miserable.

Patriotism | clusterflock 2010

This he unpacked with the help of a youth whom he had brought with him, and presently, to my very great astonishment, a quite epicurean little cold supper began to be laid out upon our humble lodging-house mahogany.

Sole Music 2010

Place, to remove his residence to the Well, Mr. Winterblossom, though he would not be understood to commit himself by a positive assurance to that effect, is inclined to hope that an arrangement might be made, notwithstanding the extreme crowd of the season, to accommodate Mr. — — — — at the lodging-house, called

Saint Ronan's Well 2008

She drove immediately, by the previous direction of Delvile, to a lodging-house in Albemarle Street, which he had taken care to have prepared for her reception.

Cecilia 2008

Black and Green, you know Bark, lodging-house keeper and receiver of stolen goods? —

Reprinted Pieces 2007