House Lot

Word HOUSE LOT
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From this pleasant house he designed himself, the doctor looks down from wooded heights that rise behind the lakeshore plain on which Toronto lies, to plan house-lot subdivisions to develop along Spadina Avenue, the broad roadway he has laid out through his estate north from Lot Street (which we will call Queen again hereafter). ❋ Unknown (1984)

Now, the house-lot they finally decided upon met all four of these needs, though it sounds like a joke to tell you where it was. ❋ Robert J. [Illustrator] Sim (N/A)

When a man had a house-lot in a hollow, he built his house there, and made ❋ Various (N/A)

For they used this time getting their meals; and whenever they were doing that, they were working for the owner of the barn, paying their rent for the house-lot on the wall by catching grass insects over the meadow, and mosquitoes and horseflies and house-flies by the hundreds, and many another pest, too. ❋ Robert J. [Illustrator] Sim (N/A)

Their house-lot was covered with pebbles, and it suited them exactly. ❋ Robert J. [Illustrator] Sim (N/A)

Every man's house-lot and garden are relieved of the malaria which the purest winds and the strongest sunshine could not penetrate and purge. ❋ Various (N/A)

In house-lot conditions, the apple-tree usually receives sufficient food if the land is well enriched for garden purposes; but trees in sod should have liberal top-dressings of fertilizer every year and of stable manure every other year. ❋ Unknown (1906)

Even as he spoke a dusty, weary figure in worn homespun, carrying a mammoth bundle, limping sadly upon bruised and blistered feet, came through the shrubbery, approaching the great stables from the far side of the big house-lot. ❋ Edward Marshall (1901)

House-lots would thus be first assigned, and then in proportion to each of them, the farm lands, called variously, ox-ground, meadow-land, ploughing ground, or mowing land, double the amount being given to the owner of an eight-acre house-lot, and such lands being held an essential part of the property. ❋ Campbell, Helen, 1839-1918 (1890)

The house-lot or family curtilage at first devolved strictly within the limits of the family. ❋ Oliver Wendell Holmes (1888)

/2 /2 By the Salic law a man who could not pay the wergeld was allowed to transfer formally his house-lot, and with it the liability. ❋ Oliver Wendell Holmes (1888)

How many a small house-lot lawn we see split down the middle by a row of ornamental shrubs or fruit-trees which might as easily have been set within a few feet of the property line, whose rigidity, moreover, would have best excused the rigidity of the planted line. ❋ George Washington Cable (1884)

If we have not as much to offer in immediate return, we have, at least, a broad expanse of uncovered acres within the city, for the easy occupation of those who wish homes, either modest or splendid, or who shall wish such as the growth of the metropolis multiplies its population into the millions, crowds its roofs higher toward the stars, and makes a productive silver mine of each several house-lot. ❋ Seth Low (1883)

A few fruit-trees were planted here and there, and the oaks, which he had topped and shortened back when he cut away the forest for his house-lot, had put out new and dense heads of dark-green foliage that gave to the humble home a look of dignity and repose hardly to be matched by more ornate and costly structures. ❋ Unknown (1880)

House-lots would thus be first assigned, and then in proportion to each of them, the farm lands, called variously, ox-ground, meadow - land, ploughing ground, or mowing land, double the amount being given to the owner of an eight-acre house-lot, and such lands being held an essential part of the property. ❋ Helen Campbell (1878)

His large forehead showed power, and he was in fact a lawyer of some ability; and still he could not support his family, could not keep a mould of mortgages from creeping all over his house-lot, and had so many creditors that he could not walk the streets comfortably. ❋ Nathaniel Parker Willis (1875)

We readily observe, however, that our household dogs not only know the chattels of their master and distinguish them from those of other people, but they also learn to recognize the bounds of their house-lot or even of a considerable farm. ❋ Nathaniel Southgate Shaler (1873)

Miss Atalanty, they say that one stone at the top -- a green stone, what they call an 'em'ral' -- was worth the price o 'a' Frisco house-lot. ❋ Bret Harte (1869)

I know not how to build or to plant; neither how to buy wood, nor what to do with the house-lot, the field, or the wood-lot, when bought. ❋ Unknown (1856)

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