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Example sentences for "private house"

  • The hospital has the appearance of a private house.

  • The entrance into the church looks like the door of a private house; the building is small, but still sufficiently large for the Roman Catholic congregation.

  • The building looks like a private house, and contains a gallery capable of accommodating three or four hundred people; this gallery is devoted to the use of the ladies.

  • There is no private house," said he, "in which people can enjoy themselves so well as in a capital tavern.

  • The SWAN WITH TWO NECKS was formerly the sign of a private house in Head Street, Colchester, once occupied by Miles Gray, the celebrated bell-founder.

  • Preached again at Christ Church, Spitalfields; and gave thanks and sang psalms at a private house.

  • Then I read prayers at Carfax; expounded to a large and devout company at a private house; and spent the remainder of the evening with thirteen more, where God gave me great cheerfulness of spirit.

  • Besides, I don't like to break in on a private house like a burglar.

  • If one of the parties is unable to attend the town hall the marriage may be solemnized in a private house, but in such a case six male witnesses of full age are necessary.

  • The wedding celebration may take place either in church or in a private house.

  • A noisy, tumultuous assembly of fashionable people at a private house; a rout.

  • A private circle or assembly at a private house; a circle.

  • Yet still he had passed the highest commendation on himself; for he tells us that those who did anything wrong, and were found fault with, used to say, it was not worthwhile to blame them; for they were not Catos.

  • Aglaura, presented at a private House in Black Fryars.

  • Alphonsus Emperor of Germany, a Tragedy, often acted with applause at a private house in Black Fryars, by the servants of King Charles I.

  • Brennoralt, or the Discontented Colonel; a Tragedy, presented at a private House in Black-Fryars by his Majesty's Servants.

  • A man precedes a woman up a narrow staircase in a public building, but in a private house, in ascending or descending a stairway, he should always allow the woman to precede him.

  • Without altering its general scale and shape we may suggest something entirely different from a private house.

  • So far we have treated our building only as a private house.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    differ from; known passage; private audience; private citizen; private citizens; private collection; private company; private conversation; private corporations; private detective; private interest; private interview; private judgment; private libraries; private library; private member; private opinion; private persons; private practice; private rights; private schools; private ship; private sitting; private tutor; send word; should probably