The Election Commission (EC), for the first time has banned pasting of posters and drawing poll graffiti on walls even with the consent of the house-owner. ❋ Unknown (2008)
So Ali and his house-owner sat together till a third of the night was past, when their colloquy ended and the merchant returned to his own house and ❋ Unknown (2006)
They betake themselves to the mountain chosen by the intended owner and therein pierce the house, whilst the owner catcheth fish for them and feedeth them, till the cave is finished, when they wend their ways and the house-owner taketh up his abode therein. ❋ Unknown (2006)
A house-owner, after studying the house with the eye of a valuer, would have said, ❋ Unknown (2007)
Brighton house-owner (bred in affluence she may have been, and used to unremitting plenty) to the support of the casual travellers who visit the city. ❋ Unknown (2006)
In the case of advances by building societies to help an individual to build his own house, the desire to be clear of debt more rapidly than the house actually deteriorates may stimulate the house-owner to save more than he otherwise would; — though this factor should be classified, perhaps, as diminishing the propensity to consume directly rather than through its effect on net income. ❋ Unknown (2003)
· Low customer/house-owner appeal because of poor durability, variable quality and usually unattractive colour. ❋ Unknown (1997)
A house-owner was shot dead in Port Shepstone when armed gunmen entered a house and were confronted by the owner. ❋ Unknown (1995)
The house-owner or the builder is interested in the final cost of a wall, including the cost of building materials transported to the site, that of the mortar for the joints and that of labour. ❋ Unknown (1987)
We pause before the door of Herr Herzlich, master goldsmith and house-owner, and prepare to deliver our letter of introduction. ❋ William Duthie (N/A)
The house-owner, who was older than he, was slightly deaf. ❋ Unknown (1910)
Put the bad tenement at a disadvantage as against the well-constructed and well-kept house, and make the house-owner as well as the manufacturer understand it. ❋ Unknown (1904)
This was apparently still untouched, though the fiery tongues came darting over the rooftree every now and then, hissing and lapping, and the roof itself was covered with sparks and great patches of burning tinder, fragments of the costly stuffs and tissues that the house-owner had so dearly prized. ❋ Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards (1896)
Very early in her career as house-owner, Billy decided that however delightful it might be to have a furnace to shake, it would not be at all delightful to shake it; besides, there was the new motor car to run. ❋ Unknown (1894)
Cope recognized one of his own students and surrendered, though a kindly house-owner on the bluff had been quick to cry across the intervening yards of water his offer of hospitality. ❋ Henry Blake Fuller (1893)
It was a sore burden to many a house-owner when Charles II imposed the iniquitous window-tax, and so heavily did this fall upon the owners of some Elizabethan houses that the poorer ones were driven to the necessity of walling up some of the windows which their ancestors had provided with such prodigality. ❋ Unknown (1892)
Chaff beds were thrown on the floor of the loft, if the house-owner was well off. ❋ Theodore Roosevelt (1888)
The women shared the stern qualities of the men; often it happened that, when the house-owner had been shot down, his wife made good the defence of the cabin with rifle or with axe, hewing valiantly at the savages who tried to break through the door, or dig under the puncheon floor, or, perhaps, burst down through the roof or wide chimney. ❋ Theodore Roosevelt (1888)
Consequently their early occupation of the ground will be worth 1,000£ a year to them, exactly the same as to a London house-owner the lucky circumstance that his ancestors set up their huts on that particular spot on the banks of the Thames is worth his 1,000£ or more a year. ❋ Theodor Hertzka (1884)
Dude [did you] see [the new] house owner [map] ❋ Apple1255 (2017)
