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And in thy stead I've got a deal of judgement / Though heaven knows how it ever found a lodgement.
1819, Lord Byron, “Don Juan”, in Selected Poems of Lord Byron, Ware, Hertfordshire: Wordsworth Editions, published 2006, Canto I, stanza 215, p. 111
Is Envy then such a monster? […] since its lodgement is in the heart not the brain, no degree of intellect supplies a guarantee against it.
1924, Herman Melville, chapter 11, in Billy Budd, London: Constable & Co.
and man without GOD is a seed upon the wind: driven this way and that, and finding no place of lodgement and germination.
1934, T. S. Eliot, Chorus VII from 'The Rock' in Collected Poems, 1909-1962, New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1963, p. 162