That afternoon when they had pulled up in front of the broken-down ranch house, his hopes had been high.

And they had almost everything they needed: land, a house, two whiteface bulls, three horses.

When they reached their neighbor's house, Pamela said a few polite words to Grace and kissed Melissa lightly on the forehead, the impulse prompted by a stray thought -- of the type to which she was frequently subject these days -- that they might never see one another again.

The ideal home, they agreed, would be a small private house or a city apartment of four to five rooms, just enough for a family consisting of husband, wife, and two children.

I mean something more like Freud's concept of the utility of `` play '' to a small child: he plays `` house '' or `` doctor '' or `` fireman '' as a way of mastering slightly frightening experiences, reliving them imaginatively until they are under control.

their reading and thinking gave an extension to their normal blushes about appearing ' Jewish ' in subway, bus, racetrack, movie house, any of the public places that used to make the Jew of my generation self-conscious ( heavy thinkers walking across Seventh Avenue without their glasses on, willing to dare the trucks as long as they didn't look like the ikey-kikey caricature of the Yiddish intellectual ).

Many high school students go past my house every day, and they look like perfect ladies and gentlemen.

The night before, they had telephoned the Andrus maid, Selena Masters, and she had arrived early, bursting her vigorous presence into the silent house with an assurance that amused McFeeley and confounded Moll.

The altercation in the coffee house had done little to dampen his spirits, but he was still a little wary around Rector for they had not yet discussed the incident.

There was no room for company in the tiny Weaning House ( where the Albright boys always took their brides, till they could get a house and a farm of their own ).

The women, keeping their voices low as they worked around the house or sat in the living room, sounded like chickens shut up in a coop for the night.

The two men sat for some time, savoring the pleasure of escape from peril and the relief such escape brings, before they got up and left the hotel, the doctor to go to the conference house and Alex to go to the main post office.

Common complaints included `` Mrs. Murphy '' leaving her windows open all the time, a fresh air fan, or the family was visiting `` Aunt Minnie '' with the house shut up but they still paid the same rate for oil.

But now many of these same builders are finding they can cut their costs more by teaming up with a dealer who has volume enough to afford the most efficient specialized equipment to deliver everything just where it is needed -- drywall inside the house, siding along the sides, trusses on the walls, roofing on the roof, etc..

Their house was a centuries-old Colonial which they had had restored ( guided by an eminent architect ) and updated, and added on to.

Francesca and Herbert considered themselves violently nonconformist and showed the world they were by filling their Colonial house with contemporary furniture and paintings and other art objects ( expensive, but not necessarily valuable, contemporary things ).

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.

By 3:00 A.M. they reached his house and found it vacant.

When they were refused entrance to his brother's house nearby, they smashed down the door, broke the window, and threw lighted clothes wet with kerosene into the room.

Finding it true that he was not inside, the deputies returned to the first house and tore holes through the side and the roof until they could see a body on the bed covered by a blanket.

The Kochaneks told police they left home at 8 a.m. and returned about 45 p.m. and found the house had been entered.

The Abernathy furnace consumed fuel like a giant ravenous maw that had to be appeased by hurling tons of coal into its evil red depths, and no matter how much coal they put in the house remained cold.

Although Ayckbourn continued to move where his career took him, he settled in Scarborough, eventually buying Longwestgate House, the house formerly owned by Stephen Joseph.

He settled in St. Louis, Missouri, where he eventually established his own brewing supply house.

They eventually marry, but only after Rochester's mad first wife ( whom Jane initially had no knowledge of ) dies in a dramatic house fire.

There are not many details of Almagro's activities during this period, but it is known that he accompanied various sailors that left the city of Darien between 1514 and 1515, although Almagro eventually returned and settled in Darien and obtained an encomienda which helped him construct a house and make a living from agriculture.

( The rest were eventually destroyed by a fire at the publisher's house.

Telemann's opera productions were not particularly popular, and eventually the opera house had to be closed down in 1738.

The family settled in a house down the street from Throop Polytechnic Institute ( which would eventually become California Institute of Technology ), and the Hawks children began attending the school's Polytechnic Elementary School in 1907.

In later seasons, harmonica player Charlie McCoy joined the cast and eventually formed the Hee Haw Band, which became the house band for the rest of the series ' run.

That June, Dahmer picked up a hitchhiker named Stephen Hicks and offered to drink beer with him back at his father's house, planning to eventually have sex with him.

He returned to St. George's to teach for a year and left to work his way through a series of other jobs, eventually landing a position as an editor at Doubleday publishing house, where he first began to write verse.

Atari eventually obtained a line of credit from Wells Fargo that it used to expand its facilities to house an assembly line.

The approach to the house was by car, past the caretaker's lodge and eventually under the building itself.

Shortages, including material and labor, forced alterations to the earlier plan developed by French engineer Pierre Charles L ' Enfant for a " palace " that was five times larger than the house that was eventually built.

After the election, many people from the Ohio area moved to Washington, D. C., made their headquarters in a green house on K Street, and would be eventually known as the " Ohio Gang ".

An expansion of the B concourse, used by many low cost airlines as well as international arrivals, has been completed, and the Midfield Concourses C and D mainly house United Airlines, and will eventually be knocked down to make room for a more ergonomic building.

The pig is unable to blow the houses down, destroying them by other means, but eventually gives up his wicked ways when he smells the scent of the flower house, and becomes friends with the wolf.

Morton's grandmother eventually found out that he was playing jazz in a local brothel, and subsequently kicked him out of her house.

Novalee cannot hear what he is saying, and eventually perceives that something bad has happened so she drives to Lexie's house.

Paul Foucault eventually took over his father-in-law's medical practice as well, while his wife took charge of their large mid-19th century house, Le Piroir, located at the village of Vendeuvre-du-Poitou 15 kilometres from the town.

Spot originally appears as a male Somali cat, but later appears as a female orange tabby house cat, eventually giving birth to kittens ( TNG: " Genesis ").

The monster breaks into the house and eventually melts its way through the nearly indestructible doors of the Krell laboratory where Adams, Altaira, and Morbius have taken refuge.

Dahyabhai Patel was a businessman who eventually was elected to serve in the Lok Sabha ( the lower house of the Indian Parliament ) as an MP in the 1960s.

Some of French's compositions were used in the band's work, but the group's singer was Sam Galpin and the role of keyboardist was eventually taken by John Thomas, who had shared a house with French in Eureka at the time.

The short story also asserts the premise that while currently trapped in R ' lyeh, Cthulhu will eventually return, with worshipers often repeating the phrase Ph ' nglui mglw ' nafh Cthulhu R ' lyeh wgah ' nagl fhtagn: " In his house at R ' lyeh, dead Cthulhu waits dreaming ".

This " family room " is eventually relocated to serve as a replacement for Eeyore's collapse-prone house of sticks.