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  • It would require the entire municipal disposal system to be regarded as an extension, in terms of privacy, of the dwelling-house.

    SCC: No Privacy Interest in Things We Throw Out : Law is Cool 2009

  • In about 1960 Bredsdorff and his wife bought a former smithy and attached dwelling-house on the island of Glænø, off Zealand, as their summer home.

    Archive 2009-05-01 David McDuff 2009

  • The Huntsman, having represented many burglars in the Crown Court, is absolutely confident that a dramatic fall in dwelling-house burglary would follow.

    Archive 2007-06-24 2007

  • Then the Kazi bade silence the women and said to the prisoner, “These folk avouch that thou didst enter their dwelling-house and steal their goods: belike thou stolest less than a quarter dinar221?”

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • They brought him before the Governor, who asked what it was and they replied, “This fellow is a thief, whom we caught last night in our dwelling-house.”

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • No doubt people will say it is too high — too high for a dwelling-house.

    The Master Builder 2008

  • No doubt people will say it is too high — too high for a dwelling-house.

    The Master Builder 2008

  • The Study is 30 yards below the old arbor and 100 yards above the dwelling-house—it is remote from all noises...

    mark twain's writing hut lavardera 2008

  • More domestics, both in the Highland and Lowland dress, instantly rushed from the anterior of the mansion, and some hastened to take the horses of the strangers, while others waited to marshal them a way into the dwelling-house.

    A Legend of Montrose 2008

  • What was it to him if we chose to imitate some of the conveniences or luxuries of an English dwelling-house, instead of living piled up above each other in flats?

    Redgauntlet 2008

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