Housed

Examples

• And when they are housed, they will work, in summer, commonly, stripped and barefoot, but in winter substantially clothed and shod. Plato. The Republic.
• Six engines of a combination gas-steam type, housed in this building, develop 36,000 combined horse-power. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• There was housed in his memory a vivid picture of the face of a little boy as he entered the hovel where Clym's mother lay. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• But so much the better for all who are warmly housed at home. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• A glimpse of the river through a dull gateway, where some waggons were housed for the night, seemed to arrest my feet. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• Men were put to work getting out timber to build huts, and in a very short time all were comfortably housed--privates as well as officers. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Oh, I hope I should be able to get the people well housed in Lowick! George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• What revolution of fortune could have brought her to England, and housed her thus? Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• When he had housed him, he went to bed and saw his light, in the little room outside of Amelia's, presently disappear. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.

Edited by Georgina