lodgment

Example Sentences

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He came forward, searching out safe lodgments for his feet, and then looked up through thick spectacles.

From "Lord of the Flies" by William Golding

All hands were now set to work, some to preparing houses, barracks, and lodgments for the new comers; some to unlade the vessels and store the cargo, and some to extend the wharf.

From Biographical Memorials of James Oglethorpe by Harris, Thaddeus Mason

Silt has hidden from view the tangled lodgments of the floods.

From Toronto of Old by Scadding, Henry

By the side of these were salubrious disengaged lodgments, but they would not remove the prisoners thither.

From History of the Commune of 1871 by Lissagary, P.

I receive bills to a considerable amount from Lancashire in particular, and remit them to Norfolk, Suffolk, &c., where the bankers have large lodgments, and much surplus money to advance on bills for discount.'

From Lombard Street : a description of the money market by Bagehot, Walter