houseridden

• Its true life is houseridden, behind those spotless and very beautiful lace curtains, and there it remains One of the wittiest of the old writers on Holland (of whom I said something in the second chapter), Owen Feltham the moralist, describes in his Brief Character of the Low Countries an Amsterdam house of the middle of the seventeenth century. —  A Wanderer in Holland
• Its true life is houseridden, behind those spotless and very beautiful lace curtains, and there it remains. —  A Wanderer in Holland

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