Paying guests

Usage examples of lodgers.

Marius among the ruins of Carthage, was waiting for the two lodgers that yet remained to her, and bemoaning her lot with the sympathetic Sylvie.

Gridley, I could arrange it with the other lodgers and should not so much mind its being liked or disliked in the yard.

Under the lime-trees there are a few green-painted garden seats and a wooden table, and hither, during the dog-days, such of the lodgers as are rich enough to indulge in a cup of coffee come to take their pleasure, though it is hot enough to roast eggs even in the shade.

She expended no small amount of ingenuity in a sort of weeding process of her lodgers, announcing her intention of receiving henceforward none but people who were in every way select.

He was proof against her malice, and in desperation she spoke to him and of him slightingly before the other lodgers, who began to amuse themselves at his expense, and so gratified her desire for revenge.

The student exchanged greetings with the lodgers, and sat down beside Goriot.

Father Goriot raised his head at the words, and gave the two speakers a glance so full of intelligence and uneasiness that the lodgers beheld him with astonishment.

The seven lodgers were at last collected together, not without some difficulty.

None of the lodgers understood this scene in the least, they looked on in mute amazement.

The lodgers made way for three of the men, who had each a hand on a cocked pistol in a side pocket.

But now the lodgers began to look at each other, and then all eyes were turned at once on Mlle.

True, she still wore a doleful countenance, as might be expected of a woman who had lost all her lodgers, and whose manner of life had been suddenly revolutionized, but she had all her wits about her.

They were told that no such person had entered, and that none of the lodgers had gone out disguised that night.

He arose from his seat, and strode up and down the room, oblivious of the lodgers below, whose windows shook with every angry stamp of his foot.

And since the lodgers often ate their supper at home in the common living room, the living-room door stayed shut many an evening, yet Gregor reconciled himself quite easily to the shutting of the door, for often enough on evenings when it was opened he had disregarded it entirely and lain in the darkest corner of his room, quite unnoticed by the family.