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Example sentences for "whose house"

  • At the house of the gentleman, whose house I am now in, there is a good deal of fuel-wood; and here I see in the parlours, those fine and cheerful fires that make a great part of the happiness of the Americans.

  • We passed through the estate of a Mr. Marsin, whose house is near the road, a very poor spot, and the first really poor ground I have seen in Norfolk.

  • Lloyd’s, in whose house Mrs. Surratt concealed the carbine which Booth wanted for protection, when just after the murder he was to flee towards the Southern States, was a firm Roman Catholic.

  • There lay the dead I had left, the two or three students of the Seminary; the son of the worthy pair in whose house I lived, for whom in those days hearts were still aching, and by whose memory the house still seemed haunted.

  • He felt kindly enough to the good woman in whose house he lived; he sometimes gave a few words of counsel to her son; he was not unamiable with the few people he met; he bowed with great consideration to the Rev.

  • He reflected with himself; "hetaerae are prone to deceive, Brahmans are like my father and uncles, and merchants are greedy of wealth; in whose house shall I dwell?

  • There dwelt at Lichfield a gentleman of the name of Butt, to whose house on holidays he was ever welcome.

  • His remains were interred in Bunhill Fields, in the vault of his friend Mr. Strudwick, at whose house he died.

  • Whose house I have made the wilderness, and the barren land his dwellings.

  • I contracted an acquaintance with a woman in whose house I lodged, who, though she did not keep an ill house, as we call it, yet had none of the best principles in herself.

  • It is true that she was not particular; so that there was a new somebody at whose house a card could be left, or a morning call achieved--who could help to fill her rooms, or whose rooms she could contribute to fill in turn.

  • It was on the receipt of that letter that Losely had entered into communication with the money-lender, whom he had come to town to seek, and to whose house he was actually going at the very hour of Gunston's arrival.

  • My Lord of Arundel, at whose house I was when these tidings came, said her majesty was so angered at this judgment, that she cried out in a passion, 'Away!

  • In 1723 was performed his tragedy of Mariamne; to which Southern, at whose house it was written, is said to have contributed such hints as his theatrical experience supplied.

  • At Antwerp lived one of the great friends who helped in his support all his life: Peter Gilles, the young town clerk, in whose house he stayed as often as he came to Antwerp.

  • There are also his relations with Jacobus Voecht, in whose house he evidently lived gratuitously and for whom he managed to procure a rich lodger in the person of an illegitimate brother of the Bishop of Cambray.

  • At first he put up with his old host Johannes Paludanus, Rhetor of the University, whose house he exchanged that summer for quarters in the College of the Lily.

  • George Crabbe, Rector of Merton, the grandson of the poet, at whose house he died.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    commonly believed; could meet; each separate; for not; keeps well; state what; whose acquaintance; whose authority; whose body; whose daughter; whose death; whose diameter; whose fault; whose favor; whose land; whose like; whose mind; whose names; whose object; whose office; whose only; whose right; whose shoes; whose soul; whose term; whose word