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.

They range from the Soviet Embassy on Sixteenth Street, a gray shuttered pile suggesting a funeral-accessories display house, to what Congressman Rooney has called `` that monstrosity on Thirty-fourth Street '', the modern cement-and-glass chancery of the Belgians.

Before the late modern era, the abbot was treated with the utmost reverence by the brethren of his house.

Nowadays, almost all series provide a modern house for the contest, with a jacuzzi, sauna, VIP suite, loft and other luxuries.

In modern day Italian, this term designates a bordello ( also called " casa chiusa ", literally " closed house "), while the gambling house is spelled casinò with an accent.

The first known European gambling house, not called a casino although meeting the modern definition, was the Ridotto, established in Venice, Italy in 1638 to provide controlled gambling during the carnival season.

Since 2003, the modern opera house is home to Theater Erfurt and its Philharmonic Orchestra.

There were however continuing gradual economic improvements, among the most visible of which was the replacement of the traditional thatched black house with accommodation of a more modern design and with the assistance of Highlands and Islands Enterprise many of the islands ' populations have begun to increase after decades of decline.

The house is an embodiment of Mies ' mature vision of modern architecture for the new technological age: a single unencumbered space within a minimal " skin and bones " framework, a clearly understandable arrangement of architectural parts.

Among these was the Maison " Citrohan ", a pun on the name of the French Citroën automaker, for the modern industrial methods and materials Le Corbusier advocated using for the house.

Leipzig has many institutions and opportunities for culture and recreation including a football stadium which has hosted some international matches, an opera house and one of the most modern zoos in Europe.

Today a modern reconstruction of Michelangelo's house can be seen on the Janiculum hill.

Prithvi Narayan Shah ( c. 1769 – 1775 ), with whom we move into the modern period of Nepal's history, was the ninth generation descendant of Dravya Shah ( 1559 – 1570 ), the founder of the ruling house of Gorkha.

The history of pubs can be traced back to Roman taverns, through the Anglo-Saxon alehouse to the development of the modern tied house system in the 19th century.

The Premier is appointed by the Governor of New South Wales, and by modern convention holds office by virtue of his or her ability to command the support of a majority of members of the lower house of Parliament, the Legislative Assembly.

The house where Rudolf Steiner was born, in modern Croatia

View over the settlement, showing covering to house No. 7 and proximity to modern shore line

The Bernician name hwit ærn is Old English for the Latin candida casa, or ' white house ' in modern English, and it has survived as the modern name of Whithorn.

Augurio Perera's house in Edgbaston, Birmingham, where he and Harry Gem first played the modern game of lawn tennis

Altham pointed out that for most of Grace's career, he played on pitches that " the modern schoolboy would consider unfit for a house match " and on grounds without boundaries where every hit including those " into the country " had to be run in full.

After the house of Medici was extinguished, the art treasures remained in Florence, forming one of the first modern museums.

There are a number of different types of modern psychiatric hospitals, but all of them house people with mental illnesses of widely variable severity.

Władysław II was the founder of the Jagiellon dynasty that bears his name, while pagan Jogaila was an heir to the already established house of Gediminids in Grand Duchy of Lithuania ; the royal dynasty ruled both states until 1572, and became one of the most influential dynasties in the late medieval and early modern Central and Eastern Europe.