flophouse

He takes her to meet peasants, dignitaries, soldiers, and men of the cloth; leaves her at various safe houses, apartments, flophouses, champas; depends on relatives and acquaintances to take him in.

Yury Baumblit ran unsafe flophouses that housed homeless people and addicts in the New York City area.

Twenty-five years later, on a New Orleans street lined with flophouses and gambling dens, a German woman recognizes a face from the past, Salome Muller, because she bears such a striking resemblance to the deceased Muller mother.

Once isolated to the flophouses of Vancouver's poverty-stricken Downtown Eastside, there is now no "class differentiation," says Craig, whose pyrethroid cocktail seems to be keeping the bed bugs (just barely) in check at this building.

I remember bringing the galley up into one of the flophouses and showing it to one of the guys who was in the book.

The trek continues by land and sea across Malaysia and Indonesia, in cars and trains, dodging police patrols, overnighting at flophouses.

So we came, after years of paying our dues in rustic flophouses, to a home where a muddy boot would be as welcome as a lady of the night at a prayer breakfast.

For a time, Guthrie and Seeger, hustling for gigs, traveled the back roads of America, bumming meals and hitting flophouses along the pocked trails that carried Tom Joad westward from Oklahoma in The Grapes of Wrath.

At the lowest end of the market, in the Bowery's notorious flophouses, consumer choice was remarkably (if depressingly) robust.

At one time, she says, there were as many as ten shelters and flophouses where a man, down on his luck, could find a meal and a place to sleep.

Dennis worked the bars and flophouses of Halifax's dockside, talked his way onto some of the blasted freighters, and wrote dozens of stories based on interviews with sailors and passengers who recounted their survivals of U-boat attacks, harrowing escapes from wrecks and long voyages in lifeboats, and successful counterattacks against the subs.

"In Detroit's skid row, surrounded by flophouses, she offered meals for as little as 35 cents.