house-boat

An ark is a house-boat of small though comfortable dimensions, and is as necessary to the Upper Bay fisherman as are nets and boats.

The King of the Greeks 2010

He had lived a year in a house-boat on the largest river in the heart of Asia, had survived two heart-breaking, death-strewn retreats across the snowy plateau of Tibet, had walked amid the ruins of ancient desert cities that had flourished long before Christ was born.

Dear Carl Ginny Woods 2010

In November, Lake Powell Resorts & Marinas, on the border of Utah and Arizona, offered an "early bird" 20% discount on summer house-boat rentals booked by April 17 with a $100 cancellation fee.

Travelers Find It Pays to Wait for Late Deals 2009

The LAWDA was asked to cancel the licenses of all non-existent house-boat owners who had registered their house-boats illegally during the turmoil.

Lakes��� conservation 2009

Truth, we are on a house-boat on the Nile among disillusioned and cynical gamblers, loafers and addicts.

Naguib Mahfouz – The Son of Two Civilizations 2003

Kashmir or the Jhelum Valley by hill-cart, on horseback, and by house-boat, reaching Srinagar at the end of April, when the velvet lawns were at their greenest, and the foliage was at its freshest, and the deodar-skirted mountains which enclose this fairest gem of the Himalayas still wore their winter mantle of unsullied snow.

Among the Tibetans Isabella Lucy 2004

Leh, the capital of Ladakh or Lesser Tibet, is nineteen marches from Srinagar, but I occupied twenty-six days on the journey, and made the first ‘march’ by water, taking my house-boat to Ganderbal, a few hours from Srinagar, via the Mar Nullah and

Among the Tibetans Isabella Lucy 2004

Making Srinagar my headquarters, I spent two months in travelling in Kashmir, half the time in a native house-boat on the Jhelum and

Among the Tibetans Isabella Lucy 2004

With his own hands he put flowers about his little house-boat, and equipped the punt, in which, after lunch, he proposed to take them on the river.

In Chancery 2004

It had rained this last fortnight — the river was very full, and in the water, collected round the little house-boat moored by his landing-stage, were many leaves from the woods above, brought off by a frost.

In Chancery 2004