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  • Afterwards he returned to Washington, where he took a room in a lodginghouse.

    FORGE OF EMPIRES 1861-1871 MICHAEL KNOX BERAN 2007

  • Afterwards he returned to Washington, where he took a room in a lodginghouse.

    FORGE OF EMPIRES 1861-1871 MICHAEL KNOX BERAN 2007

  • Afterwards he returned to Washington, where he took a room in a lodginghouse.

    FORGE OF EMPIRES 1861-1871 MICHAEL KNOX BERAN 2007

  • Afterwards he returned to Washington, where he took a room in a lodginghouse.

    FORGE OF EMPIRES 1861-1871 MICHAEL KNOX BERAN 2007

  • Afterwards he returned to Washington, where he took a room in a lodginghouse.

    FORGE OF EMPIRES 1861-1871 MICHAEL KNOX BERAN 2007

  • They are the men who are in the lodginghouse sitting-rooms during bleak and bitter weather and who swarm about the cheaper shelters which only open at six in a number of the lower East Side streets.

    Sister Carrie 2004

  • Police hustled him along, restaurant and lodginghouse keepers turned him out promptly the moment he had his due; pedestrians waved him off.

    Sister Carrie 2004

  • On Third Avenue they marched, a seemingly weary way, to Eighth Street, where there was a lodginghouse, closed, apparently, for the night.

    Sister Carrie 2004

  • He remembered a lodginghouse where there were little, close rooms, with gas-jets in them, almost pre-arranged, he thought, for what he wanted to do, which rented for fifteen cents.

    Sister Carrie 2004

  • Yes, Petra had it all figured out; she was the born landlady, and had grown up in a lodginghouse.

    Look Back on Happiness 2003

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