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Example sentences for "human habitation"

  • Of purely Celtic names very few survive in the sites of human habitation, though the names of the waterways are almost universally Celtic, as is the name of Thames itself.

  • I observed that nearly all the swine were marked, though they seemed too wild to have ever seen an owner, or a human habitation.

  • Half-dead with cold and wet, we hurried on, but still no welcome light beckoned us to a human habitation.

  • For miles no sign of human habitation, but now and then at rare intervals one sees a patch of hillside rudely cleared, with the bare stems of the burnt trees still standing.

  • In all those three days you meet with no human habitation; it is all desert, and the extremity of drought.

  • Not a human habitation rose to the sight, and no living creature, not even the gull, or smallest bird, broke with its note the solemn stillness.

  • There was no house or human habitation to be seen, nor could he see anyone of whom he might enquire; so he walked on again.

  • Still the road was lonely and destitute of human habitation.

  • Not a house or human habitation was to be seen for miles.

  • Moreover, those sent to reconnoiter, returned with the news that in a westerly direction they could find no connection with Kamchatka or discover the slightest trace of human habitation.

  • Khitroff circumnavigated the island and found various traces of human habitation.

  • If the tree is to its liking, it matters not how much exposed to the winds it may be, or how close to a human habitation, for the bird is utterly unconcerned by the presence of man.

  • I have never heard this species sing in a cage or anywhere near a human habitation; and it is probably owing to its recluse habits that its excellent song has not been hitherto noticed.

  • For twelve weary hours the passenger in the express train looks out on forest and morass, and rarely catches sight of human habitation.

  • From whatever side the traveller approaches St. Petersburg, unless he goes thither by sea, he must traverse several hundred miles of forest and morass, presenting few traces of human habitation or agriculture.

  • After about another hour’s walk, I heard the bark of a dog, and confiding with a joyful heart in this sure sign of an approach to a human habitation, I stepped out quickly to the long-sought mill.

  • After thus taking care of myself, I resumed my march southwards with fresh vigor, and about ten o’clock the crowing of a cock denoted that I was not very far from a human habitation.

  • Beyond that there are no signs of human habitation.

  • The country had the aspect of being fiat, and almost destitute of trees; nor were there any signs of human habitation.

  • Sign of human habitation at first there was none; and in spite of its beauty, there was something which I was almost going to say was repulsive.

  • In front of us were miles of distant mountains, but in no direction the slightest sign of human habitation.

  • We do; and at its head find a rapid, and notice on the mountain-side a village clearing, the first sign of human habitation we have seen to-day.

  • At Realp, a little handful of houses, we found a small house of refreshment, where two Capuchin friars reside to minister to travellers, and this was the last sign of a human habitation we saw for some weary hours.

  • No signs of a human habitation are on this lonely height.

  • Some of the views along here are exceedingly grand, and in the midst of barrenness that can hardly be excelled, the soul feels that enough is here to make a world, though there is little vegetation, and not a human habitation.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    gloomy silence; human affection; human bones; human character; human energy; human evolution; human face; human figures; human frailty; human habitation; human immortality; human kindness; human labor; human labour; human mind; human power; human progress; human races; human skull; human things; human thought; human victim; human virtue; human voice; long time; through his