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Example sentences for "many houses"

  • Figures giving so many houses to the acre convey little actual idea of the density of houses.

  • But the filthy and dangerous character of the receptacles provided in many houses for it undid much of the good which would have come from the improvement in quality.

  • In many houses having no organized credit department, the collections are handled by the bookkeeper.

  • In many houses, too little consideration is given to the handling of goods in a manner that will save time in assembling orders.

  • From quite early times, however, there existed in many houses a room known as the misericord (or indulgence), where the strict diet of the frater was relaxed.

  • Servants, boarders and school children seem in many houses to have shared the dorter with the nuns, an arrangement which must have been exceedingly disturbing to all parties.

  • In many houses, especially where there are several grown sons or daughters, a blank form is kept in the pantry: Will with M on the at o'clock.

  • A shortcoming in many houses is the lack of a newspaper, and the thoughtful hostess who has the morning paper sent up with each breakfast tray, or has one put at each place on the breakfast table, deserves a halo.

  • It is not an exaggerated story, but quite true, that in many houses of ultra fashion a guest on arriving is told at which meals he is expected to appear, that is at dinners or luncheons given by his hostess.

  • Many houses in the town had lately been set on fire by incendiaries, and this most likely gave rise to the above precautionary measure.

  • Many houses in Abbotsbury have pieces of ecclesiastical stonework or carving built into their heavy walls, and arched windows seem to have been transplanted bodily from the dismantled abbey to the dwellings in the village.

  • It may have been erected on the site of one of that Saxon monarch's many houses.

  • This was a royal residence in Saxon days and a hunting lodge of that King John of many houses; very scanty remains of the buildings are pointed out in a meadow near the town.

  • The doors were made of wood, though in many houses paper or plaited bamboo was used.

  • Many houses in the city had simply a roof-covering of thatched straw.

  • The house in which Yung Pak lived was a very fine one, although the grounds were not as spacious as those of many houses in the outskirts of the city.

  • In many houses, when a party dined, the ladies going away was the signal for the commencement of a system of compulsory conviviality.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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