Wright set his loss at $200,000, a figure perhaps justified by the unique character of the house that had been ruined, and the faultless taste that had gone into the selection of the prints and other things that were destroyed.

One of us has a pool set in a wooded area very near the house.

The way a house is set on its lot can therefore influence how much cooling you're going to need.

It was all set up so there would be no dust anywhere and so that their children would color in the coloring room, paint in the painting room, play with blocks in the block house, and do all the other things in the proper rooms at exactly the right time.

It seemed, indeed, that their house was not so much a home, but rather a perfect stage set, and that they were actors who had been handed fat roles in a successful play, and had talent enough to fill the roles competently, with nice understatement.

The engagement was supposed to be all set for the big theater in McCormick Place, which Sol Hurok, ballet booker extraordinary, considers the finest house of its kind in the country -- and of course he doesn't weep at the capacity, either.

: Christie ’ s Murder in Mesopotamia is the most archaeologically influenced of all her novels as it is set in the Middle East at an archaeological dig site and associated expedition house.

Its notoriety arises from an incident in 1894 in which the then owner, an English landlady named Agnes McDonnell, was savagely beaten and the house set alight, allegedly by a local man, James Lynchehaun.

* The James Blish and Normal L. Knight collaboration A Torrent of Faces, set in the future where a trillion people inhabit the Earth, features several semi-enclosed ' cities '— massive buildings big enough to house, entertain and feed hundreds of millions of people.

Ludwig van Beethoven's Opus 1 is a set of three piano trios ( written for piano, violin, and violoncello ), first performed in 1793 in the house of Prince Lichnowsky, to whom they are dedicated.

In 1893, the Badminton Association of England published the first set of rules according to these regulations, similar to today's rules, and officially launched badminton in a house called " Dunbar " at 6 Waverley Grove, Portsmouth, England on September 13 of that year.

But such details, like many others details of the daily routine of a Benedictine house that the Rule of St Benedict leaves to the discretion of the superior, are set out in its customary.

* Since Big Brother 2, the UK series always opens with a twist which have included the public being able to choose the final housemate out of three possibilities ( Big Brother 2 ), the public voting for a housemate to leave during the first week and then the housemates choosing between the two housemates with the least number of votes ( Big Brother 3 ), First Night Nominations ( Big Brother 4 ), Suitcase Nominations ( Big Brother 5 ), Unlucky Housemate 13 ( Big Brother 6 ), Big Brother Hood ( Big Brother 7 ), an all-female House and the first inclusion of twins as contestants ( Big Brother 8 ), the first couple to enter as housemates and set a secret task to hide their real relationship ( Big Brother 9 ), all " housemates " really being " non-housemates " who had to earn their housemate status ( Big Brother 10 ), a mole entering the House with an " Impossible Task " ( Big Brother 11 ), Jackie Stallone entering a house containing her son's ex-wife ( Celebrity Big Brother 3 ), the entrance of a non-celebrity in a celebrity edition ( Celebrity Big Brother 4 ) and Jade Goody's family announced to be visiting.

Many changes followed: the first full-time in house designer and publications officer were appointed in 1964, A Friends organization was set up in 1968, an Education Service established in 1970 and publishing house in 1973.

A set of house rules may be accepted as valid by a group of players wherever they play, as it may also be accepted as governing all play within a particular house, café, or club.

This need is often met when a particular set of house rules becomes generally recognized.

For example, when Whist became popular in 18th-century England, players in the Portland Club agreed on a set of house rules for use on its premises.

Between 1960 and 1968 street scenes were filmed before a set constructed in a studio, with the house fronts reduced in scale to 3 / 4 and constructed from wood.

Other provisions set the terms of a transaction, establishing the liability of a builder for a house that collapses, for example, or property that is damaged while left in the care of another.

The emperor, over-awed with having to cohabit with these two powerful deities, set up separate enshrinements to house them.

On his first outing he set out to Limehouse Causeway, spending his first night in a common lodging house, possibly George Levy's ' kip '.

The short-lived Margraviate of Brandenburg-Küstrin was set up, against the Hohenzollern house laws on succession, as a secundogeniture fief of the House of Hohenzollern, a typical German institution.

She even set the house on fire, stabbed him with a knife, and slashed her wrists on several occasions.

A bill that is passed in one house is transmitted, along with a formal message, to the other house.

The main house is the centerpiece of ten acres of formal gardens and parterres.

Since then the château has continued to welcome the parlement when called upon to sit in a congressional sitting, jointly with the upper house in order to enact constitutional changes or, as happened most recently in June 2009, to listen to a formal declaration by the president.

The lands of the manor were given to the Cecil family in 1588 and a new manor house was constructed and gardens laid out in the formal Elizabethan style.

In 1866, the railroad actually built the train station between Folsom Boulevard and the tracks that still exists as Pfingst Realty ( Mr. Pfingst died in 2007, and the structure is owned by his daughter ), due to the size and dependability of the crop, and the need for a formal packing shed to house the produce waiting for the train.

The pink colored house features " tall, angular gables, gingerbread trim, and 21 formal flower gardens outlined by dwarf boxwood hedges ," according to a Hartford Courant article.

The more formal front of the house was added in 1863 and is a true balloon frame structure built around a central hall with an impressive staircase.

There is a large formal garden immediately behind the house.

The house is prominently situated on a ridge and this was exploited to create an English landscape park, which opens out from the formal garden and merges with the park.

At Harewood House he remodelled ( 1843 – 50 ) the John Carr exterior adding an extra floor to the end pavilions and replacing the portico on the south front with Corinthian pilasters, some of the Robert Adam interiors were remodeled, the dining room being entirely by Barry, and created the formal terraces and parterres surrounding the house.

However, the lack of a fashionable and formal suite of state apartments coupled with the Brownlows ' lack of social credentials did not prevent a visit from King William III to the newly completed house in 1695.

From this vantage point, the owners of Belton could admire the perfect symmetry of their avenues and formal gardens spreading from the house.

Closer to the house were a series of more formal gardens, including canal ponds bordered by plantations containing symmetrical walks resembling the " rond-points " ( circular clearings in a garden from which straight paths radiate ) introduced by the landscape gardener André Le Nôtre.

This house had a formal garden that rivalled the garden of Versailles in the 1640s.

The estate is managed by the National Trust and consists of a mansion house surrounded by formal gardens, in a deer park in the Peak District National Park.

The house is surrounded by formal gardens of in a deer park of about which are listed at Grade II * in the National Register of Historic Parks and Gardens.

One major criticism of Brown's landscapes was the lack of a formal setting for the house, with rolling lawns sweeping right up to the front door.

Repton re-introduced formal terraces, balustrades, trellis work and flower gardens around the house in a way that became common practice in the nineteenth century.

His inclination, however, was to writing novels, and the success of his romance L ' Ariane in 1632 led to his formal admission to a circle of writers that met at the house of Valentin Conrart.

The series received no formal finale, concluding with an hour-long episode in which the principal characters, while redecorating a plantation house, envision what their lives would have been like if they had been characters in Gone with the Wind, and simultaneously thwart a wealthy adversary of B. J's and an illegal leveraged buyout of her company.

In British English, an the word inventory is more commonly thought of as a list compiled for some formal purpose, such as the details of an estate going to probate, or the contents of a house let furnished.

Martin was not permitted to resume his seat until he had issued a formal apology from the bar of the house, pursuant to a motion passed in response to the incident.

After construction of a fort of earth and peat sods and an apartment house, a formal ceremony of possession of the Islands was held on 5 April 1764, after which Bougainville and Pernety returned to France leaving 28 settlers behind.

Today, however, Rideau Hall is the commonly accepted term for the house, with Government House remaining only in use for very formal or legal affairs ; for example, Royal Proclamations will finish with the phrase: " At Our Government House, in Our City of Ottawa ..."