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Example sentences for "handsome house"

  • Some years later he built a handsome house in the neighborhood which he called "Eagle's Rest," and resided there with his sister, Miss Mary Marston Gouverneur.

  • They lived in a handsome house, gave sumptuous entertainments, and had an interesting family of daughters, several of whom I knew quite well.

  • Jacob Lorillard lived in a handsome house in Manhattanville, a short distance from the Bloomingdale Road.

  • It is impossible to say how long the equivoque and the consequent hilarity would have lasted, had not the cab suddenly stopped in front of a handsome house in Park square.

  • Scarcely was his mind thus made up, when Mrs. Fitzhardinge turned into Suffolk Street; and in less than another minute, she knocked in an authoritative manner at the door of a handsome house.

  • Toward evening, and when I had vowed for the fourth time that each successive call would be my last, Fred paused before a handsome house on Fifth Avenue.

  • Then I will buy a handsome house, together with slaves and horses and trappings of gold, and eat and drink, nor will I leave a singing-man or woman in the city but I will have them to sing to me.

  • One day he went out to seek somewhat to keep life in him and came presently to a handsome house, with a wide and lofty portico and servants and others at the door, ordering and forbidding.

  • The Bartons moved to Squire Marlowe's handsome house, and John Barton was installed as owner and head of the shoe factory.

  • Hiram French occupied a handsome house on Indiana Avenue, furnished with taste, and was, as his style of living showed, in easy circumstances.

  • With a faltering step Mrs. Barton advanced and rang the bell of her cousin's handsome house.

  • He, therefore, took it up, and followed her until she came to a handsome house, before which was a spacious court.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    boiling temperature; call attention; child labour; conscript fathers; cubic miles; finned fishes; fresh supply; good feller; good reputation; got home; great fish; had learnt; handsome building; handsome face; handsome fellow; handsome fortune; handsome present; handsome woman; handsome youth; handsomely bound; must allow; peace footing; seeing this; thousand pound; world affairs; would resign