What is "roomer"

Usage examples of "roomer".

The Lady-of-the-House had unlocked the door and looked in to make sure that her roomer was not in.

In the meantime I had been able to pay for all the furniture, through my roomers and singing and sewing, but the large house was too much for me, with sewing until twelve at night, and I concluded to take a smaller house and called on Mr.

I had been but two months in the new place when one of my roomers got married, to my sorrow, for that meant another empty room with the two parlors which had never been rented.

There was an open terrace on the roof where the Tipu Bharat roomers could sit and stare out toward the Eastern or the Western Ghats, the distant mountain ranges that enclosed the high plateau of Bangalore.

Bull elk roamed the plains and there were coogar to be seen in the hilly places if the roomers were correct.

One of the roomers here, Reginald, works night security at a warehouse near there.

These were busy days, what with concerts, singing in churches and at funerals, rehearsals, dressmaking and roomers.

Bull elk roamed the plains and there were coogar to be seen in the hilly places if the roomers were correct.

I said it was the fault of the Hedgehog, who had not told me nearly enough about his bedridden roomer, just as it had never occurred to him to say anything about Sister Dorothea, except that a nurse was living behind the frosted-glass door.

The other three roomers with any call to have been upstairs in the wee small hours when the fire was set had all died with Widow Dugan and her lover cum hired hand.

Because Wolfe did not like the idea of sending anyone from his house hungry, because of his instinctive reaction to the challenge that salt cod couldn't be made edible, and because of my threat to tear up another check, the roomer was not bounced before dinner, and the tray that was prepared for the south room was inspected personally by Wolfe before Fritz took it up.

The week before Thanksgiving, Graice is downstairs in the kitchen at about ten o'clock in the evening there's another roomer there, making coffee, a mild mannered white man in economics named Hodler and in comes the Jamaican smelling of beer and perspiration, blustery, aggressive, all smiles.