This is one of the most attractive houses I ever saw.
When the electoral votes were formally counted before the houses of Congress, the result, so contemporary record informs us, was "received with perfect decorum by the House and galleries.
After the election the current for annexation seemed too strong; and a resolution passed both Houses authorizing the admission of Texas as a State.
Ye'll have the same in all your housesbefore long!
Above the little houses on the opposite side of the street, the moon has risen in the dark blue sky, so that the cloud shaped like a beast seems leaping over it.
If the law is going to enter private houses and abrogate domestic authority, where the hell shall we be?
Yes, your Worship, and of course if I had let him into the house it would have been very wrong of me; and I have never done such a thing in any of the houses where I have been employed.
Against trees in leaf and blossom, with the houses of a London Square beyond, suffused by the spreading glow, is seen a dark life-size statue on a granite pedestal.
There were title deeds of the Piccadilly house in a great bundle, deeds of the purchase of the houses at Mile End and Bermondsey, notepaper, envelopes, and pens and ink.
There are but few houses close at hand, one being a very large house only recently added to and formed into a private lunatic asylum.
Come with me, friend John, and you shall help me deck the room with my garlic, which is all the way from Haarlem, where my friend Vanderpool raise herb in his glass houses all the year.
The mews were active, the Piccadilly houses being mostly in occupation.
The houses are very few here now, and the Professor says that the last horse we got will have to go on with us, as we may not be able to change.
The Count may have many houses which he has bought.
Mrs. Westenra has got an idea that sleep-walkers always go out on roofs of housesand along the edges of cliffs and then get suddenly wakened and fall over with a despairing cry that echoes all over the place.
It so happened that there was no one at the moment on Tate Hill Pier, as all those whosehouses are in close proximity were either in bed or were out on the heights above.
Will you please tell me the names of a few large commercial houses where they might buy some of my beautiful fans?
He turned slowly and sadly toward the castle--his eye rested upon that dark, gloomy mass of stone, which arose to the right, and contrasted mysteriously with the brilliant houses around it.
This bouquet comes from Schwetzingen; there, only, in Germany, in the celebrated green-houses of the Margravine of Baden can they be seen.
The doors of all the first houses were opened to the distinguished strangers--everywhere they were welcome guests, and there was no assembly at the palace to which they were not invited.
Will you receive the deserters in your housesand at your tables?
Some have been installed in settlement housesand public schools.
It is advocated that a separate circuit of heavy wire be put into all houses where current is used for purposes other than lighting, to provide for cooking and power connections.
Now in the painted housesall around Slow-darkening windows call The empty unwatched middle of the night.
I have heard my grandam tell How some thousand years ago Houses stretched from Camberwell Right to Highbury and Bow.
Mr. Thornburgh and his guest had visited a few houses in the course of their walk, and the vicar plunged for a minute or two into some conversation about local matters with his wife.
The houses which were built on a swamp originally, are falling into ruin; the roofs, the drains, the accommodation per head, are all about equally scandalous.
The houses stood in the shadow of the bank looking north, and on this gray, lowering day, the dreariness, the gloom, the squalor of the place were indescribable.
Flaxman walked away down Park Lane through the chill morning quietness, the gathering light striking over the houses beside him on the misty stretches of the Park.
Catherine walked on fast toward the group of houses at the head of the valley, in one of which lived the two old carriers who had worked such havoc with Mrs. Thornburgh's housekeeping arrangements.
Pretended newspapers are started by business houses for the mere purpose of advertising goods, complying with the law in form only and discontinuing the publications as soon as the period of advertising is over.
He was a frequent walker in St. James's Park and other places of common resort in the neighborhood of the Houses of Parliament.
But on the long road between where all the half-way houses are, there seems to be a lot of trouble and misunderstanding and disappointment.
There certainly are other houses in our own village, some larger, some smaller than mine, where pleasant neighbours manage to eat and sleep, and to eke out their existence.
And they saw the remains of the bathhouses at the pit heads.
There was enough water power to have lit forty houses as large as his.
Now Lochmaben is in Dumfriesshire, not very far from the English border, and the old man sometimes took his harp and made long journeys into England, playing at all the houses that he passed on the road.
Didst expect all the trees to be made of silver, and all the houses to be built of gold?
Is it possible that they look for so long a siege that they are beginning to build houses for themselves?
PIT'-VILL'AGE, a group of miners' houses near a pit.
Jews, to commemorate the destroying angel passing over the houses of the Israelites when he slew the first-born of the Egyptians.
Accordingly, the men proceeded once more to build houses for the winter; and never, since we had been in service, had they constructed so comfortable quarters as they now built.
All along the track of the railroad, men, women and children, filling the windows of the houses and thronging the wayside, cheered us on our way, shouting and waving flags and handkerchiefs.
The few dilapidated houses still remaining to mark the site of the village, presented a forlorn and pitiful appearance.
Houses which were deserted were generally stripped of everything.
Nearly all thehouses were deserted, and most of them destroyed so far as any future usefulness was concerned.
Some of them made fierce opposition to the use of their houses as hospitals, but they were occupied notwithstanding their remonstrances.
Before us lay the little village of Burkettsville, nestling under the shadow of those rugged mountains, its white houses gleaming out of the dark green foliage.
Here we found bough houses which had been used by rebel cavalry; and the tracks of many horses imprinted only a little while before, whether by the horses of our own cavalry, or by those of the enemy, we never knew.
Still beyond all these, the spires of Petersburgh towered grandly, and by the help of a glass the streets and houses were distinctly visible.
The houses in Hindostan are for the most part very mean; in front of these houses are sheds on pillars, under which the natives expose their goods for sale, and entertain their friends.
Some of the married people had liberty to build small houses for themselves outside the barracks.
MY DEAR SIR, Last Saturday the two houses of assembly of this state made choice of yourself and Mr. Osgood to represent them in the convention recommended by the joint committees of the five eastern states to be held at Philadelphia.
If the Publick suffers Injury from a Want of Application to its pressing Affairs, in any others;--Members of the General Assembly, it is hoped the joynt authority of both Houses will be employd effectually to prevent it.
Their prisons have been the slaughter-houses of her soldiers, their ships of her seamen, and the severest injuries have been aggravated by the grossest insults.
They seem more like dolls’ houses than dwellings for man.
Do you know anything about the bighouses that are said to exist there?
Kankun, where the ruins of numerous houses cover a great extent of ground, must have been the real site of Ekab.
Farm houses upon the larger estates are built of stone and lime, covered with cement, and generally occupy a central position, with private roads diverging from them.
Its houses roofless, their walls crumbled, are scarcely seen beneath the thick green carpet of convolvulus, and cowage (mecuna).
In Worcester, the roofs of several houses were almost uncovered, and the gable end of a newly-erected building near the House of Industry was blown in.
This act expressly provided that, in the leases granted of the property belonging to the hospital, “the best improved value that the lands and housesshould be yearly worth should be reserved for the respective yearly rents thereof.
Palmer presided; at which petitions were agreed to to both houses of Parliament, in favour of the Bill then pending, for restricting the grants of offices in reversion.
At Hanley Castle, and Stanford Park, a great many trees were blown down, and several houses unroofed.
The cellars of all thehouses near the Severn were flooded for some days.
The rate there assessed on houses amounted to 29s.
For two hours the thunder pealed incessantly, and the electric fluid struck at least ten houses in the city, but without doing any material damage at either place.
The constituency here is remarkably small, in comparison with the population, owing to so few of the operatives living in houses which pay £10 a year rent.
The place was held by a battalion of German infantry, the houses loop-holed, and the streets barricaded.
The village was very strongly held, the houses in and around being occupied and defended, and the Household Cavalry's advance was met by a heavy rifle fire which caused many casualties, both Col.
They also loop-holed the end housesof the streets facing the country.
These two companies filed silently through the main street of Kruiseik, keeping close under the shadow of the houses on either side.
They failed, however, to get across the square, being shot down in numbers from the windows of the houses opposite.
Once in the town, the cavalry lined the houses of the main street from end to end, and there awaited developments.
In spite of the declamation of Mr. Pitt and his party, they were approved of by large majorities in both Houses of Parliament, and a treaty was finally signed in Paris, Feb.
Myself and Robert saw the cavalcade (which was extremely grand, and continued for the space of more than three hours, bothHouses of Parliament with their attendants preceding their Majesties) from Mrs Townsend's house in Fleet Street.
I thought there was houses enough in all New York.
You should show her where the grand folk lives, that built these houses for the poor to be stowed in.
Don't you be scared neither; houses don't make the folks that live in 'em.
And, as you truly suggest that the number of persons wanting such relief is unlimited, the first thing to be done is to build proper houses for the poor.
Houses enough, but they all is set up so high in their rents, you see.
By degrees the houses became thinner, as they drove on; grass and trees were again prominent; and it was in a region that looked at least half country that the carriage at last stopped.
Pitt's hopes had been gradually falling, and now when the quarry disappeared from his sight in one of the little humble houses which filled the street, he for a moment stood still.
His own street, as he approached it, welcomed him with a strong odor of onions and fried potatoes; it had apparently turned itself out of doors and all of the houses seemed to have emptied themselves into the narrow alley.
Crowds of well-dressed people, with hats bright in the sun, swarmed about the entrance and along the well-swept little paths between the little houses adorned with carving in the Russian style.
But, I dare say, you don't even know what houses are made of?
Besides, if a burglar should visit any of the houses it would be such a consolation to know that they could call assistance in a few seconds.
Drawn thither by curiosity numbers of women and children had gathered at the upper end of the street, and were thronging the porches, windows, and even the roofs of the framehouses that covered the neighborhood.
Some houses thus retain as many as six such readers, and very often a manuscript book must pass through the hands of all these, taking its turn with scores of others, before a decision is reached concerning it.
He had just unfolded to his two particular chums his plan of connecting all their houses with a telegraph line, and the boys agreed that a telegraph line was precisely the thing they needed.
Their houses were in a cluster in the suburbs of Westbridge, two on one side of the broad avenue, and one just across the way, with only about five hundred feet of space between them.
Of course they knew that we would hurry over, leaving our own houses unprotected.
As soon as the call was sent they stepped out and came over and robbed our houses at their leisure, knowing that we had gone to Baileys'.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "houses" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
