give lodging

Example Sentences

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"It isn't so easy to keep things going with such a big family, so that I can't give lodging on credit, more's the...."

From Hunger by Hamsun, Knut

Many of the suffering people have told me that they would give lodging and the best of their food to any English doctor who would travel among them.

From Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Volume I (of 2) Including a Summer in the Upper Karun Region and a Visit to the Nestorian Rayahs by Bird, Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy)

I asked if she could give lodging also and she referred me to her husband inside.

From Tramping Through Mexico, Guatemala and Honduras — Being the Random Notes of an Incurable Vagabond by Franck, Harry Alverson

To the messengers they bade give lodging in the town.

From The Nibelungenlied by Shumway, Daniel Bussier