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It was a noble situation — noble as the ancient hau tree, the size of a house, where she sat as if in a house, so spaciously and comfortably house-like was its shade furnished; noble as the lawn that stretched away landward its plush of green at an appraisement of two hundred dollars a front foot to a bungalow equally dignified, noble, and costly.
ON THE MAKALOA MAT 2010
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The architect created a tree house-like design, where two floors of living space floated above ground, anchored by a steel support.
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• Wright designed the home to have a tree house-like feel.
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“Show You The Way To Go” with its classic Philly Soul sweeping strings and infectious horns, could easily be confused for a House music song in 2009 (right down to the house-like vocals by Jackson at the end of the song).
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A couple of teenage girls crouched down to get inside a small tea house-like enclosure lined with hundreds of manga, some the size of telephone books.
Linkamation Steve Hulett 2009
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Those returns are an incentive to produce house-like assets.
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For convenience I'll call these house-like assets, although they include not only houses but also other buildings, as well as movable plant and equipment.
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Of course, the dolcetto in the marinade, left over from a dinner last week, was not so sod house-like.
A Buffalo Roast Lindy 2006
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Conservatives repeat this argument ad nauseam but never acknowledge that it's valid only for house-like assets.
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The returns on house-like assets include interest, which is the price of time-preference, insurance, which is the reward for bearing (quantifiable) risk, and economic profit, which is the reward for bearing (unquantifiable) uncertainty.
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