Some suppose that the residence in Egypt was only two hundred and fifteen years.

The residence of old Quatreaux was a log cabane, about twenty feet square.

Mr. Crowder's residence was a handsome house in the upper part of the city.

His residence is an excessively pretty cottage, commanding a grand panoramic view.

This treaty was signed on the 29th of September, and the residence assigned to Gaston was Champigny, a château which had originally belonged to the ducal family of Montpensier.

There weren't no special inducement to stay home nights, when your residence was a bunk on the wall of a shanty and the fellers over you and under you and across the room weren't even acquaintances.

The residences of some sixty of the most eminent professors of various scienceselected by their colleagues as seats fall vacant, with the approval of the highest Court of Judicature and of the camptâcluster around a huge building in the form of a hexagon made up of a multitude of smaller hexagons, in the centre whereof is the great hall of the same shape.

Her continued residence there would be a continuation of the horror.

The residence of the King of Kazounde, which borders on the business quarter, is a confused collection of ill-built hovels, which spread over the space of a mile square.

At the best of times, with a large house, numerous household, and paths, and drives of approach, and the usual external conditions of civilisation about it, a residence here would have been the loneliest that can well be imagined; now it is the shaggiest desert of beautiful wood that I ever saw.

This rice cultivation, too, although it does not affect them as it would whitesto whom, indeed, residence on the rice plantation after a certain season is impossibleis still, to a certain degree, deleterious even to the negroes.

His constant residence is in an island named Quiloa, near the continent of Ethiopia, an hundred leagues from Mozambique.

The ancient residence of Cosmo Vecchio and his successors is a magnificent example of that vast and terrible architecture peculiar to Florence.

Day after day John searched the papers in vain, until it seemed as if a suburban residence was the one thing in life unattainable.

I would respectfully suggest that some gayer residence than Fillettino would be a sovereign remedy for her illness.

At Tynningham, the residence of the Earl of Harrington, are holly hedges extending 2,952 yards, in some cases 13 feet broad and 25 feet high.

Our residence is really a house of considerable size, in every respect the finest that has ever been erected in the Polar regions; 50 ft. long by 25 wide and 9 ft. to the eaves.

But, when the First Consul wrung from the Pope a concordat of which he disapproved, he resigned his bishopric, and shortly afterward died at Ettenheim, where, had he remained but a short time longer, he, like the Duke d'Enghien, might have found that a residence in a foreign land was no protection against the ever-suspicious enmity of Bonaparte.

Miss Fanny of the Bath road, strictly speaking, lived at a mile's distance from that road, but came so continually to meet the mail, that I on my frequent transits rarely missed her, and naturally connected her name with the great thoroughfare where I saw her; I do not exactly know, but I believe with some burthen of commissions to be executed in Bath, her own residence being probably the centre to which these commissions gathered.

Macaulay's residence in India, so far as political ambition was concerned, may have been a mistake.

From this founder the head of the sect was called the hakêm, his residence being Deir-el-Kamar.

His residence Cirta (Constantine) became the stirring capital of a powerful state, and a chief seat of Phoenician civilization, which was zealously fostered at the court of the Berber kingfostered perhaps studiously with a view to the future Carthagino-Numidian kingdom.

The honourable House may perhaps be inclined to conceive, that my lords the bishops enjoy as ample a power, both spiritual and temporal, as will fully suffice to answer every branch of their office; that they want no laws to regulate the conduct of those clergymen, over whom they preside; that if non-residence be a grievance, it is the patron's fault, who makes not a better choice, or caused the plurality.

For many years this residence was the home of Itinerant Preachers and the nucleus of Christian society in that region.

It is alleged by modern writers that the permanent residence of the cultivator in close relation to his ground is a legacy from the days of cumbrous and expensive transit, that the great proportion of farm work is seasonal, and that a migration to and fro between rural and urban conditions would be entirely practicable in a largely planned community.