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.

He produced the effect by dragging a set of house keys along the strings of an old, gutted piano.

On April 20, 2009, the main house was largely gutted by a fire, although the Deans escaped injury.

He made vast ( and ultimately unsuccessful ) investments in heavy industry at Barrow-in-Furness, and had his nearby country house Holker Hall rebuilt in its present form after it was gutted by a fire in 1871.

The house was used by Charles I after the siege of Leicester during the English civil war in 1645 ; after he left, his soldiers set fire to it leaving the house gutted.

In 2003, the public house in Gibraltar, called the Bottle and Glass, was gutted when the thatch of the pub roof caught fire following an electrical fault in the upper storey of the building.

In 1902 the house was gutted by fire.

The original Elizabethan house where Charles I was imprisoned in 1647 and Charles II took refuge before fleeing abroad was gutted by fire in the 1830s and the present red brick Tudor style mansion was built in 1863.

A little south of the village lies the ruins of the once-grand Mountshannon house, a Palladian mansion gutted by fire early in the 20th century.

However, in 1822 the Centre Block was gutted by fire, said to have been caused by jackdaws nesting in the chimneys of the section of the east wing closest to the main house.

Fires in 1899 and 1929 left the house gutted, but a project to preserve and stabilize the remains has been undertaken by the Maxwell at Glenlair Trust.

The buildings of Sandhill Park were badly damaged in a fire on 22 November 2011, the east wing being gutted and extensive damage caused to the main house.

In the early hours of 9 November 1928, whilst the rest of the family were in London, fire broke out and the house was completely gutted: Holbrooke sustained serious head injuries and his music library was destroyed.

They gutted the basement of Jacobs ' house, built a studio and spent the next year working on their second album called Social-Code that was released in May 2007, in Canada.

His main claims to fame are the sound of the TARDIS ( which he created by running the back door key to his mother's house along a bass string of a gutted piano, then electronically treating the recording ) and the famous voices of the Daleks, which he created by distorting the actors ' voices and feeding them through a device called a ring modulator.

In 1989 the east wing of the house was gutted by fire, but has been restored to its former condition.

The two horses broke from the yard, from the circle of light cast by the lamp still burning in the house, into the darkness.

They had the house cleaned up by noon, and Wilson sent the boy out to the meadow to bring in the horses.

He left the house and almost certain death without even increasing his pace and wondered by what remarkable stroke of Providence he had been allowed to come out alive.

she filled the waste spots of the yard with common things like the garden heliotrope in a corner by the woodshed, and the plantain lilies along the west side of the house.

In the following year her father undertook to give a course in Hebrew theology to Johns Hopkins students, and this brought to the Szold house a group of bright young Jews who had come to Baltimore to study, and who enjoyed being fed and mothered by Mamma and entertained by Henrietta and Rachel, who played and sang for them in the upstairs sitting room on Sunday evenings.

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.

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.

wept day and night for the sins and blindness of the world had a long walk through the trees and woods by his house, where he constantly walked morning and evening, and even in the depths of the night, alone by himself, for contemplation and the enjoyment of the dispensation of light.

The corporation entertained him for dinner at Quiney's house in 1596/7, with wine and sugar sent by the bailiff, Sturley.

But his rancor did not cease, and presently, on March 13, when he preached a sermon on the text, `` And Ben-hadad Was Drunk '', he told his congregation how disappointed he was in Mr. Lewis, how he regretted having had him in his house, and how he should have been warned by the fact that the novelist was drunk all the time that he was working on the book.

SBA serves also as a clearing house for information on products and processes particularly adaptable for exploitation by small firms.

We have developed an ingenious method of interlocking these so that you can make the major part of your house in your own workshop, panel by panel, according to plan.

This can be done by stories in your house organs, posters, special publications, letters to workers' homes as well as by word of mouth through your chain of command.

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 ).

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..

Even `` America's most efficient builder '', Bob Schmitt of Berea, hopes to cut his labor costs another $2,000 per house as a result of the time-&-motion studies now being completed on his operation by industrial efficiency engineers from the Stanley Works.

Builder Eddie Carr of Washington, past president of NAHB, cut his bricklaying costs $150 a house by adopting the `` SCR masonry process '' worked out after careful time-&-motion studies by the Structural Clay Products Research Foundation to help bricklayers do better work for less.

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 ).