The Loyalists who had left their great houses of Salem and of Boston brought more to the wildernesses of Upper Canada than merely fine clothes or family plate.
Of a sudden they decided that they were being transformed into incubators for the making of socialists or of anarchists--great houses do not make very discerning discriminations.
From the absence of great houses, whether of nobles or princes, in the north of the City, one is inclined to believe that great numbers of craftsmen lived in that part, namely, between what is now called Gresham Street and London Wall.
But this long list of great Houses by no means exhausts the list.
Let us remark that the continual presence of these lords and their following did much more for the City than merely to add to its splendor by the erecting of great houses.
To complete the representation of the architectural design of these "great houses of stone," the annexed elevation is given, Fig.
Strabo informs us that the Gauls lived in great houses, constructed of planks and wicker, with dome roofs covered with heavy thatch.
Newly established families, or families in the act of establishing themselves, had begun to outdo the "great houses" in their lavish expenditure on this kind of entertainment.
He had hurried in rain and storm in the early morning to receptions at great houses on the Esquiline, through the squalor and noises and congested traffic of the Suburra.
In both may be seen the scions of great houses reduced to mendicancy, ambitious poverty betaking itself to every mean or disreputable device, the legacy-hunter courting the childless rich with flattery or vicious compliance.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "great houses" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
