Two little city children have been billeted with the shephered of a large estate.
After the war he went to England to learn English and was billeted with a Jewish family in Golders Green.
The two children, orphan and half orphan, are billeted with a benign but ineffectual landlady, Mrs. Bulpit, whose husband, she tells them, dropped dead while having his afternoon tea.
She had no time for semantics: whether to include deaths outside the city walls, whether the plain-clothes soldiers had been billeted with civilians, and so on.
Because of their low pay and poor supplies, Mr. Crouch said, the military in the Malukus has been broken into small units that are billeted with local residents.
Two United Nations military observers -- a Malaysian and a Thai -- are billeted with the Indonesians on the western side of the river.
Ernest had a post as a magistrate in Hong Kong, so the children were billeted with nannies and various relatives in England.
By Sylvia Townsend Warner The New Yorker, June 21 , 1941P. 14 Two little city children have been billeted with the shephered of a large estate.
As there was such pressure on rural households to take evacuees, some children were billeted with childless couples and for many a lifelong relationship ensued.
The New Yorker, July 8 , 1944P. 20 The Rudd family, who has been billeted with the Dudley's for four years, finally depart, to the joy of Mrs. Dudley.
