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  • Tulifau, otherwise Tui Tulifau, continued to dispense the high justice and the low in the frame-house palace built for him by a Sydney trader out of

    THE FEATHERS OF THE SUN 2010

  • A longish frame-house it was, with a big table in the middle for operations, and ten Samoans, each with an average of four sympathisers, stretched along the walls.

    Vailima Letters 2005

  • It was a dilapidated frame-house, altogether forlorn, standing unsheltered on a slope of the mountain, with one or two yet more forlorn grass piggeries, which I supposed might be the cook house, and eating-house near it.

    The Hawaiian Archipelago Isabella Lucy 2004

  • The residents receive strangers, and Miss Karpe and I were soon installed in a large buff frame-house, with two deep verandahs, the residence of Mr. Severance, Sheriff of Hawaii.

    The Hawaiian Archipelago Isabella Lucy 2004

  • This is a roomy, rambling frame-house, with a verandah, and the door, as is usual here, opens directly into the sitting-room.

    The Hawaiian Archipelago Isabella Lucy 2004

  • Our first halting place was one of the prettiest places I ever saw, a buff frame-house, with a deep verandah festooned with passion flowers, two or three guest houses also bright with trailers, scattered about under the trees near it, a pretty garden,

    The Hawaiian Archipelago Isabella Lucy 2004

  • A neat frame-house, with large stones between it and the river, was our destination.

    The Hawaiian Archipelago Isabella Lucy 2004

  • Another night when we was up at the head of the island, just before daylight, here comes a frame-house down, on the west side.

    The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 2003

  • We were directed to lodgings in a common frame-house at a little distance, where, it seemed, the only hotel was kept.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 79, May, 1864 Various

  • Richardson, who carried out the governor's orders, was the first settler and Leese built the first frame-house of

    Stories of California Ella M. Sexton

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