Some articles on houses, house:
... Sneek has around 14.000 houses ... Half of those houses are rental houses ... going on, besides the building of new houses, there are plenty of existing rental or normal houses for various prices ...
... remains were of long rectangular houses containing two to three parallel flights of rooms, interpreted as mezzanines ... This type of house is characterized by thick, multi-layered foundations made of large angular cobbles and boulders, the gaps filled with smaller ... at right angles to the main axis of the houses, which were covered in stone slabs but open to the sides ...
... In 1790, there were approximately 30 houses in Smørhamn ... Today, there are a few boat houses and houses ...
... to refer to directly-elected legislators in lower houses of parliament in many Arabic-speaking areas in order to contrast them against officers of upper houses (or Shura) ... council of deputies) has been adopted as the name of several legislative lower houses and unicameral legislatures ...
... The Corner Houses, which first appeared in 1909 and remained until 1977, were noted for their art deco style ... For a time the Corner Houses were open 24 hours a day, and in their heyday each one employed in the region of 400 staff ... In the post-war gloom, the Corner Houses, smarter and grander than the local tea shops, provided a degree of escapist relaxation ...
Famous quotes containing the word houses:
“I am really sorry to see my countrymen trouble themselves about politics. If men were wise, the most arbitrary princes could not hurt them. If they are not wise, the freest government is compelled to be a tyranny. Princes appear to me to be fools. Houses of Commons & Houses of Lords appear to me to be fools; they seem to me to be something else besides human life.”
—William Blake (1757–1827)
“The spectacle of misery grew in its crushing volume. There seemed to be no end to the houses full of hunted starved children. Children with dysentery, children with scurvy, children at every stage of starvation.... We learned to know that the barometer of starvation was the number of children deserted in any community.”
—Mary Heaton Vorse (1874–1966)
“The mob is man voluntarily descending to the nature of the beast. Its fit hour of activity is night. Its actions are insane like its whole constitution. It persecutes a principle; it would whip a right; it would tar and feather justice, by inflicting fire and outrage upon the houses and persons of those who have these. It resembles the prank of boys, who run with fire-engines to put out the ruddy aurora streaming to the stars.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)