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Example sentences for "large house"

  • At Maerin there is a great farm, with a large house on it, and a great neighbourhood all around it, and it is the great delight of the people to drink many together in company.

  • The peasant had with him a large house-dog, which he put in among the herd of cattle, in which many hundred head of beasts were driven together.

  • Then next over against St. Martin's church, is a large house built of stone and timber, with vaults for the stowage of wines, and is called the Vintry.

  • Yonder it be;” said he pointing to a large house at the farther end of the market-place.

  • Without descending to the river, we turned aside up a hill, and, after passing by a few huts, came to a large house, which my guide told me was the inn of Pont Erwyd.

  • Had removed over to Tamarack, and thought of renting a large house and 'farming' the town-poor.

  • I suppose you must have a large house, and I am sure you will have a beautiful one.

  • There at the end of Yser Canal, I found a pleasant billet in a large house belonging to a Mr. Vandervyver, who, with his mother, gave me a kind reception and a most comfortably furnished room.

  • The Château was a large house of no distinction, but it stood in delightful grounds, and at the back of it was a pond whose clear waters reflected the tall, leafless trees which bordered it.

  • Our Battle Headquarters were in the forward area and rear Headquarters in a large house in Rue du Pasteur.

  • The General had comfortable quarters in a large house, which was nicely furnished, and had an air of opulence about it.

  • I am afraid it is wrong, mamma; but I think sometimes that it would be very nice to have a carriage and servants, and a large house; and it must be almost as great a change to Susan to have so many comforts as she has now.

  • At another time, my father leased for two years a large house in the Midlands.

  • A well-to-do Managing Director of some jute-spinning mills had recently built himself a large house.

  • My father had rented a deer-forest on a long lease from Cluny Macpherson, and had built a large house there, on Loch Laggan.

  • Mrs. Grant and some of their children were with him, and occupied a large house in Nashville, which was used as an office, dwelling, and every thing combined.

  • At that time, Meiggs was a prominent man, lived in style in a large house on Broadway, was a member of the City Council, and owned large saw-mills up the coast about Mendocino.

  • Inside there was a large house, with a good shingle-roof, used as a storehouse, and all round the walls were ranged rooms, the fort wall being the outer wall of the house.

  • The Wezeer then suggested to them that they should hire for themselves a large house; to which they assented; and they hired a spacious house, fitted for festivities.

  • V76] fate and destiny impelled him one day to a large house, and he knocked at the door, hoping that its master would answer him, and that he might beg of him a trifle.

  • He lived in a large house in the Pajaria, or straw-market.

  • Near Sandhills Station there stood a large house, surrounded by trees, the residence of John Shaw Leigh, one of the founders of the present Liverpool.

  • Immediately to the north of Waterloo, Squire Houghton had built a large house (Sandheys) surrounded by quite a park, but to the north of this there was only a long stretch of sandhills until Hightown Lighthouse was reached.

  • About 1860 Mr. Arnold Baruchson built a large house on the sea front, which for some years was the only house on the shore, and was the beginning of Blundellsands.

  • He now took me by the hand and led me into a large house, occupied by his master, the owner of the plantation.

  • It was an old-fashioned farmhouse of the better class, black and white, with a large house-place and a cool parlour beyond it, with old pictures and furniture.

  • If there was a large house near it, so much the better--that she would buy for herself.


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