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Example sentences for "house and"

  • And while they hesitated and stared at the aperture that alternately closed and opened with the swinging of the door, the booby-hatch, situated between chart-house and wheel, erupted.

  • Led by Mr. Pike and watching our chance between seas, we searched the deck and rails between the forecastle-head and the for'ard-house and found no devils.

  • We leaned in the lee of the chart-house and went no farther.

  • The Elsinore drifts idly on an idle sea, and we stand regular watches in the shelter of chart-house and jiggermast.

  • So I accosted him and carried him to my house and bought a fish, and we sat down to eat.

  • Indeed my husband who took my virginity is but just now gone to the draught-house and I feel that I have conceived by him.

  • Sadly the poet takes leave of all the loved spots in house and garden.

  • At Greta Hall there were two houses under one roof, and soon Southey took the second house and came to live beside his brother-in-law, Coleridge.

  • He died of fever, brought on, no doubt, by the evil smells and bad air by which people lived surrounded in those days before they had learned to be clean in house and street.

  • At Westminster, within the precincts of the Abbey, Caxton found a house and set up his printing-press.

  • Rather than pronounce them one should be as sheep who graze about the slaughter-house and know it not.

  • Before him I have step by step abandoned name and reputation, peace and quiet, house and home.

  • The delight with which he entered into these particulars, did not fully present itself to me until afterwards; for my selfish thoughts were making a ground-plan of Mr. Spenlow's house and garden at the same moment.

  • Bowing distantly he stalked out of the eating-house and back to the "Criterion," where he dined.

  • So then 'e and Tom set to work and built themselves a fowl-house and a run.

  • If you have a mind that we two should go back and look for him, let me put up this she-ass at my house and I'll be back at once.

  • Sherman had posted some troops in a log-house and out-buildings which overlooked both the bridge over which Wallace was expected and the creek above that point.

  • House and land, trades and honours, places and preferments, what are they to salvation?

  • We sell our earthly happiness For heavenly house and home; We leave this world because 'tis less, And worse than that to come.

  • I am tired of the boarding-house and I wish to leave it.

  • I told a lie about the bracelet and I followed you out of the boarding-house and I brought you here, for some other for quite a different reason.

  • I am much more comfortable here than at the boarding-house and it is costing no more money, especially since you began to get those singing engagements.

  • And he ceased not to press him till he consented to him; whereat Aboulhusn rejoiced and going on before him, gave not over talking with him till they came to his [house and he carried the Khalif into the] saloon.

  • So the old woman repaired to the young man's house and knocked at the door.

  • The cold milk was very refreshing but the room grew stifling as they all sat round near the little centre table with the French window nearly closed, shutting off the summer-house and garden.

  • Fraulein praised her German warmly and asked question after question about the house and garden at Barnes and presently of her mother.

  • It was like Biddy too, to go and put the key back in Mr Maule's bedroom and to scribble that ridiculous note in French so that he shouldn't go blundering to the hide-house and hurry up the pursuit.

  • Then home and dined with my wife when in came Mr. Hawly newly come from shipboard from his master, and brought me a letter of direction what to do in his lawsuit with Squib about his house and office.

  • Madame Morrice, and Joyce, and after I had done I took them home to my house and Mr. Hawly came after, and I got a dish of steaks and a rabbit for them, while they were playing a game or two at cards.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    being mentioned; black bird; bloodless coup; descent from; house and; house books; house close; house divided against itself; house divided against itself cannot stand; house door; house keeper; house like; house party; house plant; house plants; house shall; house should; house where; household furniture; household goods; household management; limited government eradication program; long peace; need for; prison camp; that date