Then turning to Merl, he added: "It's a lodger he has upstairs; an old fellow that came about a fortnight back; and if there's a fine fish or a fat turkey or a good saddle of mutton to be got, he 'll have it."
"The Martins Of Cro' Martin, Vol. II (of II)"
Charles James Lever
The morning after she had nearly driven over him he woke to find Leonard Dagle, his friend and fellow lodger, standing beside his bed and looking down at him with a grave smile on his intellectual face.
"Only One Love, or Who Was the Heir"
Charles Garvice
Your poor father was only a lodger there, after your mother died, and they took all he had and kept you, so to say, out of charity.
"Dick Lionheart"
Mary Rowles Jarvis