33 Metaphors for dwellings

The dwelling is the rudest kind of log-house, and the outside is sometimes decorated with the skins of deer, bears, and other animals, hung up to dry.

Yes, this wonderful old "post and panel" dwelling was the most beautiful of the many beautiful old country houses with which he had made acquaintance in the last two or three years; and it was awfully good of Bubbles to have got him asked here!

His dwelling was a little frame cottage, standing on high pillars just inside a tall, close fence, and reached by a narrow out-door stair from the green batten gate.

The dwelling of this Starr family was the Tudor house at the end of the main street which bears on it the design of a star, the rebus of the one-time owners.

But in destruction power and terror shew, To you I flye for succour; you, whose dwellings For torments are belyde, must give me ease.

Her dwelling is Fensal.

Love, showering gifts (life's sweetest) down, Fortune, with golden garlands gay, And Fame, with starbeams for a crown, And Truth, whose dwelling is the Day.

The private dwelling was only a story and a half high, but large on the ground for that region, measuring sixty feet square.

His dwelling is Breidablik, where nothing impure exists.

The Baptist preachers lived and worked exactly as did their flocks; their dwellings were little cabins with dirt floors and, instead of bedsteads, skin-covered pole-bunks; they cleared the ground, split rails, planted corn, and raised hogs on equal terms with their parishioners.

His wife is Skade, daughter of a Yotun, and his dwelling is Noatun by the sea.

The office of the Indo-European Telegraph is in Shiráz, but the private dwellings of the staff are some distance outside the city.

The shade of a palm-tree serves an African for a hut; his dwelling is all door and no walls; everybody can come in.

And so the poem goes on to express in simple terms of earthly love, the passionate delight and joy and peace of the soul in attaining to union with her God, in whose dwelling is perfect bliss and safety.

His dwelling is Himinbjorg, which is situated where the Bifrost bridge reaches heaven.

The dwelling is usually a rude hut with a single room, mud floor, an open fireplace without chimney, and a few pieces of rough furniture.

These Arizona cliff dwellings are the only edifices of the kind that are known to have been inhabited by mankind.

Astolfo rode his horse round about it, constantly admiring all he saw, and filled with increasing astonishment; for he found that the dwelling was thirty miles in circuit, and composed of one entire carbuncle, lucid and vermilion.

'And Isaac his father answered and said unto him, Behold, thy dwelling shall be the fatness of the earth, and of the dew of heaven from above; and by thy sword shalt thou live, and shalt serve thy brother; and it shall come to pass when thou shalt have the dominion, that thou shalt break his yoke from off thy neck.

His dwelling is Alfheim.

I feed myself with worms, And my dwelling is the thorn.' The falcon answered, 'Be all ear: I, experienced in affairs, See fifty things, say never one;

his dwelling is paradise; by his side are joys eternal; and in his garden grow celestial fruits and roses that never fade."

The oldest Italian dwelling was a mere wigwam with a hearth in the middle of the floor, and a hole at the top to let the smoke out.

Compared with the civilization that then surrounded it, this dwelling was a palace at the time of its erection; bearing some such relation to the humbler structures around it, as the château bears to the cottage.

The lightning had struck it, and ignited its roof of reeds; and so rapidly had the whole dwelling become a prey to the dreadful element, that even the removal of the dying sage had been despaired of.

33 Metaphors for  dwellings