Dwellings

Examples

• Their habits and their dwellings should correspond to their education. Plato. The Republic.
• The second book begins with an account of different philosophic al views concerning the origin of matter, and a discussion of the earliest dwellings of man. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• Their dwellings are made of bark, skins and mattings of their own making, stretched on poles fixed in the ground. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Many relics of the inhabitants have been found in these cliff dwellings, although we cannot tell how they lived, for the region is now rainless and therefore destitute of food plants. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Joe's forge adjoined our house, which was a wooden house, as many of the dwellings in our country were,--most of them, at that time. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• Probably these Neolithic Swiss pile dwellings did not shelter the largest communities that existed in those days. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Near at hand came the long rows of dwellings, approaching curved up the hill-slope, in straight lines along the brow of the hill. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Raymond had never visited the dwellings of want, and the scene that now presented itself struck him to the heart. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Some of these cliff dwellings may still be seen in the valleys of the Rio Grande and the Rio Colorado and its tributaries. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• A rich man there lived alone in one of the immense mansions which were formerly both dwellings and warehouses. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• The filters used in ordinary dwellings are of stone, asbestos, or charcoal. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• The outhouse was the simplest of dwellings, wooden-walled, shingle-roofed, one window beside the door and one on the farther side. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• Instead of bothering with bolts and bars for their dwellings, the red Martians simply run them up out of harm's way during the night. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• While many of their homes were small single-family houses, there were also a number of large two and three-story dwellings with many rooms in which different families lived. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• And their dwellings must be such as will shield them against the cold of winter and the heat of summer. Plato. The Republic.
• This was finally accomplished, and further invention then proceeded along engineering lines looking toward the devising of a system of molds with which practicable dwellings might be cast. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• In time, I populated Melnos accorded to my mind, and then set my new subjects to work on dwellings and industries. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• We were all equal now; magnificent dwellings, luxurious carpets, and beds of down, were afforded to all. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Now the two girls were going between some rows of dwellings, of the poorer sort. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .

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