If you don't want a long-term lodger, consider instead a short-term homestay. From Wordnik.com. [The Guardian World News] Reference
However odd he might be, Mrs. Bunting never forgot her lodger was a gentleman. From Wordnik.com. [The Lodger] Reference
She imagined that her lodger was a young lady who for some reason had run away from her friends. From Wordnik.com. [Fan : the story of a young girl's life] Reference
The main benefit of taking in a lodger is the fact you don't have to tackle the mortgage on your own. From Wordnik.com. [Personal finance and money news, analysis and comment | guardian.co.uk] Reference
Eventually Scotland Yard gets into the act, but even the inspector assigned to the case doesn't believe the lodger is his man. From Wordnik.com. Reference
Wilson had not been long in the tailor's cottage before Sim seemed to grow uneasy under a fresh anxiety, of which his lodger was the subject. From Wordnik.com. [The Shadow of a Crime A Cumbrian Romance] Reference
"Aw dooant think it does bi 'th' luk on thi, if tha gooas on tha'll be able ta tak a lodger i 'that suit o' clooas, tha'll ha room enuff, -- but tak care o 'thisen, lad.". From Wordnik.com. [Yorksher Puddin' A Collection of the Most Popular Dialect Stories from the Pen of John Hartley] Reference
I told him I knew where there was a lady who occasionally admitted an inmate to her house, which was a large one, but she must be satisfied that her lodger is a gentleman. From Wordnik.com. [Varney the vampire; or, The feast of blood. Volume 2] Reference
A 'lodger' would have been a happier imitation of the 'inquilinus' of. From Wordnik.com. [Literary Remains, Volume 2] Reference
Mayhap you will have to live in London for a bit, and, if so, you are just the kind of lodger. From Wordnik.com. [Love Eternal] Reference
"My dear Mme. Cibot, your lodger is a dead man; not because of the bile in the system, but because his vitality is low. From Wordnik.com. [Cousin Pons] Reference
His lodger was a trifle surprised. From Wordnik.com. [Fair Harbor] Reference
Well, out o 'charity to a pore lodger as can't pay. From Wordnik.com. [Oh! Susannah! A Farcical Comedy in Three Acts] Reference
The strange lodger laughed, but it was a rather sad laugh. From Wordnik.com. [The Boy Artist. A Tale for the Young] Reference
A servant appeared, of whom Alonzo enquired for the lodger. From Wordnik.com. [Alonzo and Melissa The Unfeeling Father] Reference
Suddenly their lodger spoke: "Do you like stories, children?". From Wordnik.com. [The Boy Artist. A Tale for the Young] Reference
My oldest lodger, sir, and the easiest to do for -- though odd. From Wordnik.com. [Old Valentines A Love Story] Reference
Here it was agreed that he should remain as a regular lodger, at. From Wordnik.com. [Frank Oldfield Lost and Found] Reference
The widow Langlois was surprised to see her lodger return so soon to. From Wordnik.com. [The False Chevalier or, The Lifeguard of Marie Antoinette] Reference
You can congratulate yourself that you've got such a lodger as Reif. From Wordnik.com. [The Idler Magazine, Vol III. May 1893 An Illustrated Monthly] Reference
"One of Gavyn Davies's other houses," says Gillespie the cheeky lodger. From Wordnik.com. [This Is Not My Beautiful House...] Reference
Then (c) Do it up, get some extra cash by renting out a room to a lodger, and sell it on. From Wordnik.com. [Beware the true cost of a shared-ownership home] Reference
She was ready and willing to take Dan's employer as a lodger and the terms were quickly arranged. From Wordnik.com. [The Fifth Ace] Reference
Only on the opposite side of the street, the lodger on the last story has not yet left his balcony. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Upon her re-examination she says, "My husband observed to me, our lodger is gone out with a new great coat on.". From Wordnik.com. [The Trial of Charles Random de Berenger, Sir Thomas Cochrane, commonly called Lord Cochrane, the Hon. Andrew Cochrane Johnstone, Richard Gathorne Butt, Ralph Sandom, Alexander M'Rae, John Peter Holloway, and Henry Lyte for A Conspiracy In the Court of King's Bench, Guildhall, on Wednesday the 8th, and Thursday the 9th of June, 1814] Reference
Probably there never was a lodger who was more constantly in trouble than this irritable and absent-minded genius. From Wordnik.com. [Woman's Work in Music] Reference
She made her appearance rather suddenly, and sat down on a chair by the door to have a little chat with her lodger. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, December 1878] Reference
She had by no means made up her mind that she did wish to lose a lodger who had been so entirely satisfactory up to that time. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, December 1878] Reference
The house has been "transformed", they have managed to get the kitchen refitted, and raised money by renting a room to a lodger. From Wordnik.com. [Parents find a new freedom after children leave the nest] Reference
The door is half open; I hear low groans; I enter without knocking, and I see the bookbinder by the bedside of his fellow-lodger. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Islington, where I have taken the top flight in the house, and hope to find a lodger to take the one room which we shall not occupy. From Wordnik.com. [The Boy Artist. A Tale for the Young] Reference
We said, both at once, that we were quite well, thank you; that this was our play-room; and we asked him how he liked being a lodger. From Wordnik.com. [A Sheaf of Corn] Reference
American gentleman was lodging or had lodged there was informed by one landlady that Mac had been a lodger, but had left a few days before. From Wordnik.com. [Bidwell's Travels, from Wall Street to London Prison Fifteen Years in Solitude] Reference
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