Houses

Examples

• The day was cold and dark and wintry and the stone of the houses looked cold. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• The streets are wisely made narrow and the houses heavy and thick and stony, in order that the people may be cool in this roasting climate. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• A short walk brought us to a secluded road fringed with pleasant houses, each standing in its own grounds. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• By degrees the anarchy finds a way into private houses, and ends by getting among the animals and infecting them. Plato. The Republic.
• We have opened all the public-houses in the place, and left our adversary nothing but the beer-shops--masterly stroke of policy that, my dear Sir, eh? Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• We have an acre of hot-houses, and pines as common as pays in the sayson. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• The preservation of food is also dependent on ammonia, which produces the refrigerating effect in the numerous cold storage houses and artificial ice plants in this country. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• The plaster of the broken houses was gray and wet. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• The broad problem which he set himself was to provide handsome and practically indestructible detached houses, which could be taken by wage-earners at very moderate monthly rentals. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Paths, hedges, fields, houses, and trees, were enveloped in one deep shade. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• We had reached the first houses, and were close on the new Wesleyan college, before her set features relaxed and she spoke once more. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• In the preceding Section, we learned that many houses heated by hot water are supplied with fresh-air pipes which admit fresh air into separate rooms or into suites of rooms. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• The houses were built of stone and generally only one story high. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• I saw real glass windows in the houses of even the commonest people. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Douglas Galton of the English army for use in barracks, but this stove is also admirably adapted for houses. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• When they were come to their houses, they recognized them, albeit they seemed old and mean; and they rejoiced, and were glad. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• The bill passed, however, with a clause that empty houses, barns, &c. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• Now, don't you think we could get mamma there with Dixon, while you and I go and look at houses, and get one all ready for her in Milton? Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• Then she will be in beauty, for she will open one of the best houses in Wimpole Street. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• Defoe could not think that God Almighty had made women so glorious, with souls capable of the same accomplishments with men, and all to be only stewards of our houses, cooks, and slaves. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• What we wished for was little lights, and a distribution of them to people’s houses in a manner similar to gas. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• The greater part of it was laid upon the country; and of what was laid upon the towns, the greater part was assessed upon the houses. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• These, it seems, are considered as a sort of houses upon the water. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• I awoke with them, often, in the night; I remember to have even read them, in dreams, inscribed upon the walls of houses. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• Are those the fever-houses, Darby? Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• In 1862 the greater part of the country was covered with forest with intervening clearings and houses. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Tom Johnson saw this as Mayor of Cleveland; he knew that strict law enforcement against saloons, brothels, and gambling houses would not stop vice, but would corrupt the police. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• I have providentially been the means of removing him from several houses: though in one or two instances I did not arrive in time. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• This is some very old inscription, existing perhaps long before the ancient alms-houses in this place. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• Mr. Beaufort took me to see a number of houses--since it seems I'm not to be allowed to stay in this one. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.

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