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  • God grant mine eyes may never behold the like, who now saw above 10,000 houses all in one flame; the noise and crackling and thunder of the impetuous flames, the shreiking (sic) of women and children, the hurry of people, the fall of Towers, Houses, and

    Old St. Paul's Cathedral William Benham 1870

  • By a joint rule, adopted in February, 1865, by the two Houses, preliminary to counting the electoral votes cast at the Presidential election of 1864, it was directed that "no electoral vote objected to shall be counted _except by the concurrent votes of the two Houses_."

    Twenty Years of Congress, Volume 2 (of 2) From Lincoln to Garfield, with a Review of the Events Which Led to the Political Revolution of 1860 James Gillespie Blaine 1861

  • Abyssinia, whose name was Saif Ar – Raad (Thunder-sword), and whose capital was called Medinat ad-Durr (the Rich in Houses).

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • My pet peave with most tree Houses is that they harm, or stress, trees.

    ULTIMATE TREE HOUSES AT THE DALLAS ARBORETUM | Inhabitat 2006

  • Not gonna happen, at least untill one of the Houses is out of Repug control.

    Think Progress » Lincoln Group, 2005

  • Number Seventeen was by far the most exclusive of what were called the Houses of Unwoken Dreams there on the boulevard.

    Days Between Stations Steve Erickson 1985

  • Number Seventeen was by far the most exclusive of what were called the Houses of Unwoken Dreams there on the boulevard.

    Days Between Stations Steve Erickson 1985

  • Perhaps the best advertisement for the Rowton Houses is the fact that they are always full to overflowing.

    Down and Out in Paris and London 1933

  • His behest to erect in His name Houses of Worship; the directions issued by ‘Abdu’l-Bahá in fourteen Tablets addressed to the believers residing in the Western, the Central, the North Eastern and Southern States of the

    God Passes By 1897-1957 Shoghi Effendi 1927

  • The advice thus given will undoubtedly prove most illuminating in regard to the child's health and education, since to each of the "Children's Houses" is assigned a physician as well as a directress.

    The Montessori Method Anne E. Montessori George 1912

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