If churches were inaccessible, his only alternative was to make use of private houses, public rooms, and open fields.
The magistrates threatened him with fines for holding meetings in private houses.
Tennent, Davenport, Rowland, and Blair; besides what were delivered in the Presbyterian and Baptist meetings, and expoundings and exhortations in private houses.
Then, reading part of the Ordination Office, and the canons forbidding ministers to preach in private houses, he asked, "What do you say to these?
Entrance to the baths, which, though originally rare in private houses, had become so common, long before the destruction of Pompeii, that few wealthy persons were without them.
The wonder was increased by the small number of baths found in private houses.
Hence, since I have given an account of private houses in the sixth book, in this, which is the seventh in order, I shall treat of polished finishings and the methods of giving them both beauty and durability.
In the fifth book I have said what I had to say about the convenient arrangement of public works; in this I shall set forth the theoretical principles and the symmetrical proportions of private houses.
Before that time the professors of several sciences in both universities read their lectures in private houses, at very inconvenient distances from each other.
In the same manner they decked the idols in private houses, receiving from the inmates, as their reward, baskets containing from two to four ears of maize; this gift was called cacalotl.
Holy Faith, the Sacraments, the Power of the Pope and Councils, "in private houses and at meals.
Coligny did not discontinue the services in his apartments, and wrote to his co-religionists that they had nothing to fear so long as they worshipped in private houses.
The provisions stored in the monasteries or in private houses abandoned by their proprietors--were taken for the common good.
The wide court in which the great assemblies of the centuries had previously been held was partly filled up by these new buildings, and partly occupied by private houses, as the Capitoline plan shows.
The street which is then entered passes between the ruins of private houses, without anything more remarkable about them than a few common mosaic pavements and two fountains.
Traces of a road and a gate were found which have been supposed to belong to the Via and Porta Viminalis, and many confused heaps of ruins, the relics of private houses built up against the side of the agger.
She was fond of the theatre and frequently acted as an amateur in private houses.
She rarely exhibits, and her portraits are in private houses.
For these sorts of exercises, and no others, are useful both in peace and war, and are beneficial alike to states and to private houses.
Most of the gateways have pointed arches; some few round; and the latter are seen, though less frequently, over the gates of private houses in every part of Egypt.
The Kedra, which is the largest, and rests upon a tripod; it is always neatly worked, and found only in private houses.
Coffee is rarely drunk inprivate houses without a mixture of cardamoms or cloves; and red pepper, from India or Egypt, enters into every dish.
The laws were hard to enforce, however, as such laws usually are, and large sums were won and lost not merely at general gambling resorts, but also at private houses.
It was used by senators in the curia, by the jurors in the courts, and by boys in the school (section 120), as well as in private houses.
After public bakeries were once established it became less and less usual for bread to be made in private houses in the towns.
Now, this is manifestly absurd, inasmuch as private houses stand at the head of the list, and it is well known that they are the safest from fire of all kinds of tenements.
Officers could be quartered in private houses, and have beds, most of those taken out of the theater were put into houses between it and our quarters, so that I could see them on my way to and from meals.
I learned in time that officers quartered in private houses, even with the greater comforts they had, often suffered more than the men in all their privations.
I found twenty in the Old Theater, and had them removed to private houses, to make room for the men, and that they might be better cared for.
He continued to assemble the faithful in private houses, and to hold daily assemblies, in which they were initiated into the further mysteries of his revelation.
They lived in private houses, and were for the most part married.
Master Bernard, however, evaded his obligation by holding meetings in private houses at night, to which his followers were summoned by the discharge of a gun.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "private houses" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
