The child, young or old, whose fancy is captive to water, builds for castles in Spain houseboats wherein he may spend his life floating in his element.
One wonders what proportion of the population of the houseboats, if any, lives in the houseboats in the winter.
Families living in houseboats make a business of fishing for shrimp.
Oh, on houseboats and yachts and things," smiled the Intruding Lady.
Houseboats usually have no direct power, but are gently propelled by long sweeps.
Like a fleet of dreams against green wharfs of fairyland, illumined houseboatsshone fantastic.
Best of all now, in her great emergency, she knew shanty-boats, and as she gazed at the eddy and saw the fleet of houseboats there her heart leaped exultantly.
So far, he had been rather looking out for himself, now he recalled the houseboats which he had seen moored down the reaches and in the bends.
He saw three houseboats just below him, moored against a sandbar, with hoop nets drying near by, blue smoke curling out of tin pipes, and two or three people standing by to look at the stranger.
The wharf is at the junction of the two streams, but chiefly on the shore of the unattractive Little Kanawha, which is spanned by several bridges, and abounds in steamers and houseboats moored to the land.
Houseboats have been few, to-day, and they of the shanty order and generally stranded high upon the beach.
Houseboats are less frequent, in these reaches of the river.
Some of these houseboats were very large and evidently housed large families.
Along the banks of this waterway could be seen many houseboats or floating dwellings.
The houseboats and tents may with rich colour glow, And the course be more bright than before, But there isn't the thought for the men who will row, As there was in the brave days of yore!
In sampans, houseboats and other craft, moored to the banks of these canals, dwells the major portion of the city's inhabitants.
The houseboats are open at both ends and you will see many things that the guidebooks fail to mention.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "houseboats" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
