dwelling-houses

As of 1862 (page 47) “buildings of importance and commodious dwelling-houses are rapidly rising on the hills round about Jerusalem.”

Matthew Yglesias » Bye, Bye Nationhood 2007

What! because a few rats and mice find retreat among the walls and wainscoting of our dwelling-houses, shall we therefore allow them to intrude their disgusting presence, and their airs of freedom and independence, into our personal presence?

Anne of Geierstein 2008

He was in a narrow street, with a few dark little shops, interspersed among dwelling-houses.

Nineteen Eighty-four 2008

He was in a narrow street, with a few dark little shops, interspersed among dwelling-houses.

Nineteen Eighty-four 2008

“And how many dwelling-houses have you? what landed estates? how much pasturage?”

Hellenica 2007

The dwelling-houses have plate-glass windows and bright green jalousies; the side walks are of granite, and the whole has an

The Englishwoman in America 2007

Then, I was strolling in the outskirts of that pleasant city, admiring the unusual neatness of the dwelling-houses, gardens, and orchards, as I had seen them a few hours before.

Pictures from Italy 2007

At the hotels, even when sitting down to dinner in a room with four hundred persons, I never on any occasion saw more than two bottles of wine on the table, and I know from experience that in many private dwelling-houses there is no fermented liquor at all.

The Englishwoman in America 2007

With such energy and determination did Mr. Webster and his brothers and sisters in art proceed with their work, that at this present time all the dwelling-houses of the Royal Dramatic College are built, completely furnished, fitted with every appliance, and many of them inhabited.

Speeches: Literary and Social 2007

It was in a high state of cultivation, and rich with fruit-trees, not to speak of magnificent dwelling-houses and wine-cellars fitted up on the farms: so that, it was said, the soldiers reached such a pitch of luxury that they refused to drink wine which had not a fine bouquet.

Hellenica 2007