They might kill him in his sleep, thinking there was money in the house.

And there was a house ; ;

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.

When he regained consciousness he was in Lord's house, in the office of Doctor Lord, the deputy's deceased father.

From the back of the barn it was a simple matter to reach Black's house without using the street.

It was certain now that Jess was in the house, but also, presumably, was Stacey Black.

Setting a course straight for the house, he was covering ground fast when an angry bee buzzed past close to his face.

Whoever was out there hiding in the brushy cover was besieging the Antler house and, having spotted his approach, was determined to drive him off before he could get into the fight.

What Joyce wanted me to do was go to Thor's house and `` do whatever detectives do '', and get her clothes -- and handbag containing her identification.

Back in the house a hoodlum named Red Buck, sore because Billy had been allowed to leave unscathed, jumped from a bunk and swore he was going after him to kill him right then.

Jack walked off alone out the road in the searing midday sun, past Robert Allen's three-room, tarpapered house, toward the field where the other boys were playing ball, thinking of what he would do in order to make Miss Langford have him stay in after school -- because this was the day he had decided when he thought he saw the look in her eyes.

He proudly wore the blue livery of her house, for the girl was Madame Delphine Lalaurie, wife of the prominent surgeon, Dr. Louis Lalaurie, who bore one of the South's oldest and most cherished names.

So Dandy Brandon trustingly entered the house with Delphine Lalaurie and trudged up the rear steps to the attic room which was to be his new home.

Dr. Lalaurie and I didn't even know he was in the house until the night of our ball when he came down the stairs ''.

She designed and supervised the building of the Harbert, Michigan, house, most of which was constructed by one local carpenter who carried the heavy beams singly upon his shoulder.

She was certain now that it would be no harder to bear her child here in such pleasant surroundings than at home in the big white house in Haverhill.

The favorite guest of the house, as far as the staff was concerned, was Mr. Wrigley, the chewing gum king.

it was another to house, feed, and train them.

Victor's book on John Lloyd Stephens was largely written in my study in the house at Weston.

He said he was a friend of Heywood Broun who had run a free employment bureau for several months during the depression, but the generous Broun to whom I wrote did not know his name and I somehow conceived the morbid notion that the man in question was prowling round the house.

His first glimpse of the ranch house across the brushy swells told him nothing.

At this point Mrs. Frances Cupply, one of Wright's handsome daughters by his first wife, came from the house and tried to calm Miriam as she tore down a no visitors sign and smashed the glass pane on another sign with a rock.

Or was it her own first ball as mistress of this big house, a Van Rensselaer bride from way upstate near Albany, from Rensselaerwyck.

In a two-story house, one unit may be installed in the basement to serve the first floor, another in the attic to cool the second.

Keep the direct sun from reaching the house and you've won the first battle.

Instead of closing the house in first ( as most builders do ) you can now cut your costs by not closing it in until you have to ( see p 121 ).

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 large statue on the first floor is believed to be the statue of Pompey at the base of which Julius Caesar was stabbed to death ( if so, the statue once stood in the senate house ).

I talked first, telling him everything I knew about Seaton and his house and domestic arrangements.

How Maxwell recounts his first coming to Camusfearna, his furnishing the empty house with beach-drift, the subtle changes in season over ten years, is a moving experience.

Montgomery calls for a leader who will first put the West's own house in order.

My folks wouldn't dream of having alcohol in the house, so my first taste of it had been -- of course -- with Johnnie.

Alpha and beta in turn came from the first two letters of the Phoenician alphabet, and originally meant ox and house respectively.

Dazed and bloodied, Alex collapses at the door of an isolated cottage, realizing too late that it is the house he and his droogs invaded in the first half of the story.

Labor was the first party in Australia to win a majority in either house of the Australian Parliament, at the 1910 federal election.

In his first term in the state house, Johnson did not ally with either the Democrats or the Whigs consistently, though he revered Jackson, the Democratic President.

* 1894 – The first ever commercial motion picture house opened in New York City using ten Kinetoscopes, a device for peep-show viewing of films.

On hearing that God had blessed Obed-edom because of the presence of the Ark in his house, David had the Ark brought to Zion by the Levites, while he himself, " girded with a linen ephod ," " danced before the Lord with all his might " and in the sight of all the public gathered in Jerusalem — a performance that caused him to be scornfully rebuked by his first wife, Saul's daughter Michal ( 2 Sam.

The house which he had purchased in The Hague, Netherlands becomes the first American embassy.

The earliest known member of the house, Esiko, Count of Ballenstedt, first appears in a document of 1036, and is assumed to have been a grandson ( through his mother ) of Odo I, Margrave of the Saxon Ostmark.

* In Nizhny Novgorod, there is a Sakharov Museum in the apartment on the first floor of the 12-storeyed house where the Sakharov family lived for seven years.

Since electricity is an expensive utility, the first step towards conservation is to design a house and lifestyle to reduce demand.

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.

In the first season of most series of Big Brother, the house that the housemates had to live in was very basic.