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.

It entailed the recruitment of clerical scholars from Mercia, Wales and abroad to enhance the tenor of the court and of the episcopacy ; the establishment of a court school to educate his own children, the sons of his nobles, and intellectually promising boys of lesser birth ; an attempt to require literacy in those who held offices of authority ; a series of translations into the vernacular of Latin works the king deemed " most necessary for all men to know "; the compilation of a chronicle detailing the rise of Alfred's kingdom and house ; and the issuance of a law code that presented the West Saxons as a new people of Israel and their king as a just and divinely inspired law-giver.

The 13th-century Moroccan biographer Ibn al-Zayyat al-Tadili and Qadi Ayyad before him in the 12th-century, note that Waggag's learning center was called Dar al-Murabitin ( The house of the Almoravids ), and that might have inspired Ibn Yasin's choice of name for the movement.

" The mid-1980s also saw the emergence of New York Garage, a house music hybrid that was inspired by Levan's style and sometimes eschewed the accentuated high-hats of the Chicago house sound.

The Central Perk coffee house that was featured prominently in the series has inspired various imitations throughout the world.

The pair began working as tradesmen on a house shared by comedians Hugh Laurie and Stephen Fry, which inspired them to start writing comedy.

For Jackie Treehorn's Malibu beach house, he was inspired by late 1950s and early 1960s bachelor pad-style furniture.

Mendes came across American Beauty in a pile of eight scripts at Swofford's house, and knew immediately that it was the one he wanted to make ; early in his career, he had been inspired by how the film Paris, Texas ( 1984 ) presented contemporary America as a mythic landscape and he saw the same theme in American Beauty, as well as parallels with his own childhood.

The accent may originally have been inspired by a comment by a French film director, in which he pronounced " house " as "' arse ," to Sellers's fellow Goon, Michael Bentine, at a dinner party.

Turner was inspired to learn the piano on a visit to his friend Ernest Lane's house, where he heard Pinetop Perkins playing Lane's fathers ' piano.

Muir was said to have been inspired to write this song by a large maple tree which stood on his street in front the Maple Cottage, a house at Memory Lane and Laing Street in Toronto.

Louis IX's chapel inspired several ' copies ', in the sense of royal or ducal chapels of broadly similar architectural form, built to house relics, particularly fragments of Louis ' Passion Relics given by the King.

In 1904 he married Ethel Hester Moore ( 1878 – 1961 ), and in 1907 he moved with his family to " Sopers ", a house in the village of Ditchling in Sussex, which would later become the centre of an artists ' community inspired by Gill.

The Säntis, a mountain in the Alps near Schloss Eppishausen, which inspired Droste's poem " Der Säntis " When her father died in 1826 she moved with her mother and sister to a small house near Hülshoff called Rüschhaus.

This association of the Golden Eagle with Rome has also led to the adoption of similar symbols in other countries ; for instance, the adoption of the related and physically similar Bald Eagle as the national bird of the United States was inspired by the conception of the United States as a modern reincarnation of the Roman Republic, a theme that recurs in other elements as well ( including the prevalence of neoclassical architecture in American public buildings and the use of Roman terminology — such as naming the upper house of Congress the Senate — to hark back to the Roman model ).

Moat Brae was the favourite place for author JM Barrie to play as a child and the house and gardens are said to have inspired Barrie to create Peter Pan.

Sen. McClellan, at the age of 8, heard Governor and later U. S. Senator Jeff Davis speak at the Grant County court house that inspired him to become a politician and a lawyer.

A slave woman who crossed the frozen river to Ripley and stayed in his house in 1838 inspired the character Eliza in Harriet Beecher Stowe's landmark book, Uncle Tom's Cabin.

The house is often said to be directly inspired by Palladio's Villa Capra " La Rotonda " near Vicenza, due to the fact that architect Colen Campbell had offered Lord Burlington a design for a Villa very closely based on the Villa Capra for his use at Chiswick.

The house inspired Hank Williams ' song " Mansion on the Hill ".

It was inspired by Lennon's memories of playing in the garden of a Salvation Army house named " Strawberry Field " near his childhood home.

The character Little Dorrit ( Amy ) was inspired by Mary Ann Cooper ( née Mitton ): Charles Dickens sometimes visited her and her family ; they lived in The Cedars, a house on Hatton Road west of London ; its site is now under the east end of London Heathrow Airport.

According to co-writer Isaac Hayes, the title was inspired by news reports of soul pride that emerged after the 1967 race riots, where stories that painting the word " soul " on your door was a message for looters to bypass your house.

Around 1918 he visited her house and was so taken with the simplicity of the décor he was inspired to write the poems De Outremer à indigo ( From ultramarine to indigo ).

" By-Tor & the Snow Dog " was inspired by Rush roadie Howard Ungerleider's story of him staying at Anthem records owner Ray Danniels ' house, where Danniels ' German Shepherd growled at him, and a tiny dog also owned by Danniels tried to jump on him.