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Sentences starting with houses

Houses there will take fire and burn, sometimes--actually burn entirely down, and not leave a single vestige behind. [5]
Houses like palaces stood arrayed on each side. [10]
Houses the most solid were shaken and crippled, and those which were much extended in a variety of adventures were put to their wits' ends to escape shipwreck. [4]
Houses within this hallowed precinct naturally bring a higher rent than those of the unsanctified and unprotected region outside of its walls. [6]
Houses appeared here and there upon the banks, and now and then a horseman watched them from the shore, but they could not pause. [11]
Houses get on a new coat of paint, fences are kept in better order, little plots of flowers show themselves where only ragged weeds had rioted, the inhabitants present themselves in more comely attire and drive in handsomer vehicles with more carefully groomed horses. [6]
Houses where, as a hostage, I had dined, were battered and broken; public buildings were shapeless masses, and dogs and thieves prowled among the ruins. [11]

Sentences ending with houses

He liked my work, saw its defects, and was always frank about them, and I designed a good many gardens in connection with his houses. [9]
No, Tom, I won't be rich, and I won't live in them cussed smothery houses. [5]
Not one Egyptian woman would have failed to appear if the plague had not kept so many imprisoned in their houses. [10]
What's the matter with his houses? [9]
On rare occasions, when in town, the financier dined out, limiting himself to a few houses. [9]
But to the west is a shore, and on it stands a fort and a few detached houses. [11]
Cookshops and taverns were opened in partially burned houses. [2]
In reality, there were about two blocks of the property, extending behind all the houses. [9]
And even now we are not in such straits as some other houses. [9]
Carpets and flags waved and fluttered from the houses. [10]

Short sentences using houses

And, too, we burn houses. [5]
How many houses? [2]
The houses breathed. [11]

Sentences containing houses two or more times

Since New Orleans was in a swamp, the older houses for the most part were lifted some seven feet above the ground, and many of these houses had wide galleries on the street side. [9]
A road slanted up the little limestone bluff, and above and below us stone houses could be seen nestling into the hill, houses higher on the river side, and with galleries there. [9]
There were houses of stone, houses of red brick, houses of yellow brick, houses of lath and plaster; and houses of wood, many of them very old, with withered faces carved upon the beams, and staring down into the street. [12]
There were rows of dwelling houses, once ultra-respectable, now slatternly, and lawns gone grey; some of these houses had been remodelled into third-rate shops, or thrown together to make manufacturing establishments: saloons occupied all the favourable corners. [9]

More example sentences with the word houses in them

Sure enough, when you saw the shut doors and open windows of those empty houses, all white without in the sun and dark within, and not a human to be seen, you could believe almost anything. [11]
This gift was worth twenty houses in the city, and made its owner a rich man. [10]
They came from workshops and writing-rooms, from humble houses in narrow lanes, and from the handsomest and largest in the main street. [10]
It is no wonder that people constantly go into their neighbors' houses by mistake, just as, in spite of the Maine law, they wear away each other's hats from an evening party. [4]
Our houses are within a stone's throw, and yet in a whole day, from noon till noon, so old a friend could not find a few minutes to deliver the letters entrusted to him, or to call upon such near neighbors . [10]
The little houses with their sloping roofs and wide porches, the gardens ablaze with color, the neat palings,--all were a restful sight for our weary eyes. [9]
He never meddled with any other town, for he was afraid to venture into houses whose ins and outs he did not know and the habits of whose households he was not acquainted with. [5]
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. [5]
It is a wide stretch of cheap little brick houses, with here and there a noble architectural pile lifting itself out of the midst-government buildings, these. [5]
But to those who live, as most of us do, in houses of moderate dimensions, snug, comfortable, which the owner's presence fills sufficiently, leaving room for a few visitors, a vast marble palace is disheartening and uninviting. [6]
The few inhabitants who had remained invited commanding officers to their houses, hoping thereby to secure themselves from being plundered. [2]
There were people who had accepted her invitations, to whose houses she had been, who had a dozen ways of making her feel that she was not of them. [4]
These houses were whitewashed, or painted white and red, and had double glass in winter, after the same measure. [11]
Louisville grew amazingly; white frame houses were built, and even brick ones. [9]
The streets through which the procession moved were broad and straight, the houses on either side, built of brick, tall and handsome. [10]
The cart in which the officer lay was turned into the Rostovs' yard, and dozens of carts with wounded men began at the invitation of the townsfolk to turn into the yards and to draw up at the entrances of the houses in Povarskaya Street. [2]
The two houses were separated by an ordinary yard, with a low fence running back through its middle from the street in front to the lane in the rear. [5]
At dark we were riding slowly, very slowly, for miles through a country overflowed with water, out of which trees and houses loomed up in a ghastly show. [4]
Now you know we're obliged to put people into those houses to take care of 'em--very often undeserving people that we can't depend upon. [12]
Eagerly as we were looking out for it, we passed the great Ramsey's without knowing it, for it was the first of a little settlement of two houses and a saw-mill and barn. [4]
Certain people who were living in St. Louis during the Civil War have been mentioned as the originals of characters in "The Crisis," and there are houses in that city which have been pointed out as fitting descriptions in that novel. [9]
At Andujar we were delighted with the neatness and cleanliness of the houses, the patios planted with orange and citron trees, and refreshed by fountains. [4]
The great houses were closed and blinded, and in the evening the servants who had been left behind chattered on the front steps. [9]
The fairest houses were ceiled within with mortar and covered with plaster, the whiteness and evenness of which excited Harrison's admiration. [4]
Near the houses were cattle standing breast high in the water, perfectly impassive. [5]
Two frame houses were built that year, and several persons were added to the population. [5]
On land there were a thousand miles of open country, with woods and houses, caves and cliffs, to which men could flee for hiding; and the danger of rebellion was less dominant. [11]
Of course, we went to see the houses where these old worthies lived, and the works of art they have left behind them,--things seen and described by everybody. [4]
Such a well-dressed, well-satisfied, well-fed looking crowd poured down the broad sidewalks before the handsome, stupid houses that March could easily pretend he had got among his fellow-plutocrats at last. [8]
The effect of well-built, well-furnished, well-kept houses and of handsome grounds always maintained in good order about them shows itself in a large circuit around the fashionable centre. [6]
He knew too well the old feud between their houses, the ambition that had possessed many a Vaufontaine to inherit the dukedom of Bercy, and the Duke's futile revolt against that possibility. [11]
No houses could well be in better harmony with their surroundings, or more pleasing to the eye, or more home-like and comfortable-looking. [5]
We might as well attempt without any definition to decide whether a certain number of houses should be called a village, town, or city. [1]
He was a welcome guest at the first houses in the city, and in the palace and the villa of the Senator Justinus, an old friend of his father, he was as much at home as a son of the house. [10]
Factories, bridges, beflagged week-end resorts, ramshackle houses, and blocks of new buildings were scattered here and there. [9]
I said likely we wouldn't, because I had heard say there warn't but about a dozen houses there, and if they didn't happen to have them lit up, how was we going to know we was passing a town? [5]
We bent our way towards one of the sandy streets where the great houses were. [9]
They filled the waterways with shattered houses and the bodies of their enemies, as they fought their way to Montezuma's palace. [11]
But as it was, I had a competence and several houses in Glasgow, and I set forth to Virginia with a goodly sum of money and a shipload of merchandise, which I should sell to merchants, if it chanced I should become a planter only. [11]
This ceremony, which was taken to be a kind of idolatry, ended, mats were brought from the houses, whereon the guests were seated, and given to eat bread made of maize, and tobacco to smoke. [4]
The town itself was squat but amiable: small houses and large huts; the only place of note and dignity, the new town hall, which was greatly overshadowed by the big mill, and even by the two smaller ones flanking it north and south. [11]
The street beyond was so narrow, and the shadow of the houses on one side of the way so deep, that he seemed to have risen out of the earth. [12]
But no foe was seen or heard, and the Hebrews found some tokens of the thirst for vengeance of the sons of the wilderness in their ruined houses, the superb palm-trees felled, and little gardens destroyed. [10]
In 1614 it was said that seven thousand houses lived by this trade, and that L 399,375 a year was spent in smoke. [4]
Here the land was rugged and bold, while farther on it became gentle and spacious, and was flecked or striped with farms on which low, white houses with dormer-windows and big stoops flashed to the passer-by the message of the pioneer, "It is mine. [11]
Behind the houses was often a kind of pink-and-cream paradise of flowering fruit trees, so dear to the French settlers. [9]
Though the position was now altered by his decision to pay his wife's debts and to rebuild his houses, Pierre still maintained that he had become three times as rich as before. [2]
Presently our attention was drawn to a marble medallion portrait on the corner building of an ordinary-looking row of houses. [6]
The greatest press was behind the houses of the men who buried the dead. [10]
The little band was admitted to the city and welcomed at the first houses of the northern end by Herr Van Bronkhorst and the burgomaster. [10]
While the prophet was absorbed in these reflections a pair of ravens fluttered around his head and, croaking loudly, alighted on the dusty ruins of one of the shattered houses. [10]
Behind the crowd was a row of old-fashioned brick houses, on the walls of which were patterned, by the cold electric light, the branches of the bare elms ranged along the sidewalk. [9]
The gaiety and warmth of the hut erected in the Public Gardens which houses the British Officers' Club were a relief. [9]
The entry stove warmed it but imperfectly, and she looked pinched and cold, for the evenings were still pretty sharp, and the old house let in the chill blasts, as old houses are in the habit of doing. [6]
The grey stone walls of the houses grew darker and darker, and seemed to close in on the dumfounded, hysterical crowd. [11]
Hitherto she had walked on without goal or purpose, but here the question where to seek shelter confronted her; for the torchbearers who had lighted the way disappeared one after another in the various houses. [10]
The only lights visible were in the low houses lining the banks of the river. [11]
Are not the very pews in which they sit as closed to us as their houses? [9]
There was a vast city laid out in regular streets, but there were no houses. [4]
An open, pleasant valley, the Holston, but cultivation is more and more negligent and houses are few and poorer as we advance. [4]
The officers, as usual, lived in twos and threes in the roofless, half-ruined houses. [2]
Northerly it looked upon its own outbuildings and some unpretending two-story houses which had been its neighbors for a century and more. [6]
Presently they came up with them, and found them seated on a bench, looking off upon Brigantine Island, a low sand dune with some houses and a few trees against the sky, the most pleasing object in view. [4]
I was taken up to the top of tall houses, through a smell of cabbage that was appalling, to find empty and dreary rooms, from which I fled in fright. [4]
At noon, looking up to it from the street, above the gray houses, the color and depth are marvelous. [4]
It is made up of very simple details--just grass, and trees, and shrubs, and roads, and hedges, and gardens, and houses, and vines, and churches, and castles, and here and there a ruin--and over it all a mellow dream-haze of history. [5]
These houses remain unto this day, and have signs upon them worded in accordance with the facts. [5]
But once or twice when he met Clarence Colfax at these houses he was aware of a decided change in the attitude of that young gentleman. [9]
Before I could turn and seek the door, there came a really terrific shock; the ground seemed to roll under me in waves, interrupted by a violent joggling up and down, and there was a heavy grinding noise as of brick houses rubbing together. [5]
She admired the trim, new houses in which they lived, set upon the slopes of the hills. [9]
Appalled by this transition, he alighted from the car, and stood for a moment alone in the darkness gazing at the great white houses that rose above the dusky outline of shrubbery and trees. [9]
Everywhere in its track it annihilated houses, tore off roofs, destroyed trees and crops. [5]
A post-village and township in _________ Co., State of _________,situated in a fine agricultural region, 2 thriving villages, Pigwacket Centre and Smithville, 3 churches, several school houses, and many handsome private residences. [6]
The loyal families to whose houses he now went were mostly Southerners, in sentiment against forced auctions. [9]
But at last, to their great joy, it led downwards in a steep descent, with overhanging banks over which the footpaths led; and the clustered houses of the village peeped from the woody hollow below. [12]
The bridge-builder went to the market-place, and in pillaging the wealthy merchants' houses began with Archias's. [10]
He walked out to the end of the city's growth westward, where the new houses were going up. [9]
She was listening to the ceaseless moaning of the adjutant, three houses off. [2]
The only way to prevent it is to vaccinate, so to speak, with two or three houses, and wait; then it is not so likely to spread. [4]
A further proof to Pierre of his own more settled outlook on practical matters was furnished by his decision with regard to his wife's debts and to the rebuilding of his houses in and near Moscow. [2]
And was invited to other great houses, even as Mr. Carvel had predicted. [9]
They besieged him to lecture in London, and promised him overflowing houses. [5]
Each was expecting to hear of houses overwhelmed and families destroyed; but each came with the story that his own household was safe. [6]
Until they came to Hampton they had always lived in houses, and her adaptation to a flat had been hard--a flat without a parlour. [9]
We were asked to good houses, for I believe I have always had enough of the Belward in me to keep my end up anywhere. [11]
I have only to go a few steps up a narrow, steep street, lined with the queerest houses, where is an ever-running pipe of good water, to which all the neighborhood resorts, and I am within the grounds of the castle. [4]
All was brought to focus at last, however, by their arrival at Charlotte Bedford's lodgings, which, like most houses in the town, had a lookout or belfry fitted with green blinds and a telescope, and had a green-painted wooden railing round it. [11]
For they prefer to cook Maryland dainties for a living, to put in the hands of the footmen of the ladies whose houses they once visited. [9]
Do people hesitate to change houses any more than they do to change their clothes? [4]
Gentlemen were beginning to build their houses of brick and stone, in stately and magnificent fashion. [4]
He is hungry to be rich, for he is human; but his preference has been for riches in cattle, not in fine clothes and fine houses and gold and diamonds. [5]
Twice a motion to adjourn had been offered--a motion always in order in other Houses, and doubtless so in this one also. [5]
The heat drained through the valley back and forth in visible palpitations upon the roofs of the houses, the mills, and the vast piles of lumber: all these seemed breathing. [11]
As he drove through the streets past the houses that had been burned down, he was surprised by the beauty of those ruins. [2]
The water streams through faucets in the face of a wall of ancient masonry which stands removed from the houses of the village. [5]
He was very thoughtful in taking the precaution to get so far away; rifle-bullets are apt to glance and come whizzing about people's ears, if they are fired in the neighborhood of houses. [6]
How such a thought would have insulted him the night we lay in our cabin planning European trips and brown stone houses on Russian Hill! [5]
One might have thought in all these years he had sat within the gates staring at the brick row of the company's boarding houses on the opposite bank of the canal that reflection might have brought a certain degree of enlightenment. [9]
Power, I remember thinking, chooses odd houses for itself. [9]
They shut your things up in their houses where nobody comes, and after a while they overeat themselves--they don't know what, else to do--and die of apoplexy, and leave your pictures to a gallery, and then they see the light. [8]

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