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- noun Plural form of
lodgment .
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Examples
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This is the key execution phase that encompasses the occupation of the initial lodgments in the objective area.
FM 7-98 Chapter 5 - Peacetime Contingency Operations United States Army 1992
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He came forward, searching out safe lodgments for his feet, and then looked up through thick spectacles.
Lord of the Flies Golding, William, 1911- 1954
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I promptly replied that I would sign no capitulation; that the city had been virtually in our possession from the time of the lodgments effected by Worth and
The Medallic History of the United States of America 1776-1876 J. F. Loubat
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If it were not for appearance and the difficulty of conveying the excreta without lodgments, an open gutter would be preferable to a closed pipe in the house.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 421, January 26, 1884 Various
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It is not my intention to tire the reader with an account of Liberia, for I presume that few are unacquainted with the thriving condition of those philanthropic lodgments, which hem the western coast of Africa for near eight hundred miles.
Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver Theodore Canot
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In these great outlying colonies and lodgments of European nations in the East Indies and Africa, a stranger is commonly welcome to the hospitality of every foreigner.
Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver Theodore Canot
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The Medical Corps did heroic service in keeping germs away, but cooks, clothing designers and other agencies contributed largely in the making of bodies too healthy to permit germ lodgments.
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I never thought it prudent to exculpate those honorable emigrants who were consolidating the first colonial lodgments from the
Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver Theodore Canot
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Of Mr. Feuerstein's six weeks in Hoboken it is enough to say that they were weeks of storm and stress -- wretched lodgments in low boarding-houses, odd jobs at giving recitations in beer halls, undignified ejectments for drunkenness and failure to pay, borrowings which were removed from frank street-begging only in his imagination.
The Fortune Hunter 1906
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Whitelock's plan of attack was injudicious, too many columns, no weight and ensemble, and when he knew the city was fortified at every street, he should have effected regular lodgments and pushed forward from their base.
The Autobiography of Liuetenant-General Sir Harry Smith, Baronet of Aliwal on the Sutlej, G. C. B. 1903
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