housefront

• And the rutty paving stones which stretch from housefront to housefront are crawling with people and goats and dogs and children. —  Europe Revised
• I lunched in a dusky ballroom whose ceiling was vaulted, frescoed and gilded with the fatal facility of a couple of centuries ago, and which looked out upon another ancient housefront, equally huge and equally battered, separated from it only by a little wedge of dusky space -- one of the principal streets, I believe, of Genoa -- whence out of dim abysses the population sent up to the windows (I had to crane out very far to see it) a perpetual clattering, shuffling, chaffering sound. —  Italian Hours
• And still the Worm rose beneath him, its gaping maw now as wide as a housefront and still relentlessly enlarging What do you want?” Bandar called into the void. —  Magazine - Fantasy and Science Fiction - [Vol 112] - Issue 02 - February 2007

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