838 examples of dwellings in sentences

Five minutes later they paused before a block of ancient brick dwellings and found Fogerty's number.

Clearly, then, it was a domain of much importance, and the granaries, mills, stables, slaves' dwellings would occupy much space about itan acre and a half, at least.

When they thought that they were at length prepared for this undertaking, they set fire to all their towns, in number about twelveto their villages about four hundredand to the private dwellings that remained; they burn up all the corn, except what they intend to carry with them; that after destroying the hope of a return home, they might be the more ready for undergoing all dangers.

Bodies of men are destroyed, and the bodies of oxen and sheep; the dwellings of men are burnt, and the nests of storks.

These rifles are to be concealed, a few at a time, in various dwellings, then a search will be instituted, and many people will be sent to prison.

When thy strength is restored thou can'st find the dwellings of the Hebrews among the houses of Babylon.

Attempts to mitigate the evil by erecting model dwellings have scarcely touched the lower classes of wage-earners.

The choice lay between their security and his future dominion, and he uprooted their dwellings as ruthlessly as any conqueror sets aside the obstacles in his path.

Now, as he looks around, he sees mills and factories, railroad lines to the north, south, east, and west, churches, theatres, school-houses, costly dwellings and stores, paved streets, and all that makes living easy and comfortable.

He also referred to the dwellings of other ministers.

I saw there the Patriarch Japhet, a majestic dark-complexioned old man, surrounded by immense flocks and herds and a numerous posterity: his children as well as himself had dwellings excavated in the ground, and covered with turf roofs, on which herbs and flowers were growing.

The last two classes wish to exercise the governing power upon the minutest details of life,to establish public baths, shops, theatres, dwellings, to control the amusements and direct the occupations of the citizen, and to divide his social status by law.

Mr. Samuel Barlow occupied a little old cottage, which seemed to consist chiefly of a gable end and a chimney stack, in that cluster of dwellings behind St. Oswald's church, which was once known as the Kirk Town.

Afterwards the private dwellings caught, for there were no public halls there then, the prisons called the Quarry, the fish-market, and the royal palace.

True, too, as the coachman said, Peter Ramsay's inn, where he had heard Mary singing at her work, and the stable where he had whistled blithely among his favourite horses, were no longer to be seenetiam cineres perierunttheir very sites were occupied by modern dwellings.

The natives are very fond of building their dwellings under the dark shadows of these trees; while, on the contrary, the Europeans seek for as much light and air as possible.

In winter, when the temperature frequently falls to freezing point, they have the same dwellings and clothing as in summer: the mortality among them is then very great.

Those tribes who cultivate land have fixed dwellings; the pastoral tribes are nomadic.

R.J. Turnbull, of South Carolina, whose testimony on another point has been given above, says of the slaves, that they live in "clay cabins, with clay chimneys," &c. Mr. Clay, a Georgia slaveholder, from whom an extract has been given already, says, speaking of the dwellings of the slaves, "Too many individuals of both sexes are crowded into one house, and the proper separation of apartments cannot be observed.

"The dwellings of the slaves are log huts, from 10 to 12 feet square, often without windows, doors, or floors, they have neither chairs, table, or bedstead.

"The dwellings of the slaves are usually small open log huts, with but one apartment, and very generally without floors.

Their dwellings are log huts, from ten to twelve feet square; often without windows, doors or floors.

I seize Wild Ducks and other game birds, hares, rabbits, fawnsyes, and young calves also, if House People make their dwellings near me and bring cattle into my fortress; but if they keep away from me, I never molest them.

Amongst other regrets, one of the writers (Mr. Halsey Ricardo) complains, that the "transient tenure that most of us have in our dwellings, and the absorbing nature of the struggle that most of us have to make to win the necessary provisions of life, prevent our encouraging the manufacture of well wrought furniture.

I myself have seen seventeen or eighteen villages on fire in a day, and the people driven away from their dwellings, like herds of cattle.

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