When the station wagon drew abreast of the dusty dirt road that led up to the porch of the Culver house, Pamela turned the wheel, guiding the car to its familiar parking spot close to the house, and stopped.

a pile of wire cages for mice from his time as a geneticist and a microscope lying on its side on the window sill, vertical steel columns wired for support to the open ceiling beams with spidery steel cantilevers jutting out into the air, masonry constructions on the floor from the time he was inventing his disastrous fireplace whose smoke would pass through a whole house, visible all the way up through wire gratings on each floor.

She fell asleep leaning on her hand, hearing the house creaking as though it were a living a private life of its own these two hundred years, hearing the birds rustling in their cages and the occasional whirring of wings as one of them landed on the table and walked across the newspaper to perch in the crook of her arm.

Among other things, besides the nature of your house and how much heat finds its way into its various rooms from the outside, it will depend upon your personal habits and the makeup of your family.

The way a house is set on its lot can therefore influence how much cooling you're going to need.

In 1918 the New England Telephone Company began erecting a building to house its operations on the corner of U. S. Rte. 7 and what is now Memorial Avenue at Manchester Center.

He had assumed that all these buildings had been divided into apartments, but this one, from a glance at the hall furnishings, was obviously still a functioning town house, and its owners were in residence ; ;

In 1825, the Boston house carpenters' strike for a ten-hour day was denounced by the organized employers, who declared: `` It is considered that all combinations by any classes of citizens intended to effect the value of labor tend to convert all its branches into monopolies ''.

The engagement was supposed to be all set for the big theater in McCormick Place, which Sol Hurok, ballet booker extraordinary, considers the finest house of its kind in the country -- and of course he doesn't weep at the capacity, either.

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.

How strange it was that he could give her this handsome house and carte blanche as to its beautiful furnishings, and fail her in -- spiritual ways.

The novel is most noted for its careful description of the dig site and house, which showed the author had spent much of her own time in very similar situations herself.

When Solomon married Pharaoh's daughter, he caused her to dwell in a house outside Zion, as Zion was consecrated because of its containing the Ark ( 2 Chron.

Although as a result Aston Martin had to make 60 members of the workforce redundant, Gauntlett bought a stake in Italian styling house Zagato, and resurrected its collaboration with Aston Martin.

From his associations in the house of his uncle, and later as his uncle's disciple and as a member of the academy at Sepphoris, Rav acquired such an extraordinary knowledge of traditional lore as to make him its foremost exponent in his native land.

British architects Brenda and Robert Vale have said that, as of 2002, " It is quite possible in all parts of Australia to construct a ' house with no bills ', which would be comfortable without heating and cooling, which would make its own electricity, collect its own water and deal with its own waste ... These houses can be built now, using off-the-shelf techniques.

This means that a typical one-story house with a greywater system can supply its year-round water needs from its roof alone.

Victorian house in AlamedaDue to its proximity to the Bay, wind surfers and kite surfers can often be seen at Robert W. Crown Memorial State Beach.

The Bundesrat (" federal council ", performing the function of an upper house ) is the representation of the Federal States ( Bundesländer ) of Germany and has its seat at the former Prussian House of Lords.

The Volta Laboratory and the Volta Bureau were earlier located at Bell's father's house at 1527 35th Street in Washington, D. C., where its carriage house became their headquarters in 1889.

He did live in Sekien's house while he was growing up and the relationship between the two artists continued until Sekien's death in 1788.

For a number of years French officials had been unsuccessful in dealing with the squalor of the growing Parisian slums, and Le Corbusier sought efficient ways to house large numbers of people in response to the urban housing crisis.

Meanwhile, Marsh was growing weary of lugging armloads of books home from the library to keep his wife's mind occupied while she hobbled around the house ; he emphatically suggested she write her own book instead:

It was housed at Prague Castle, where between 1587 and 1605 he built the northern wing to house his growing collections.

Among these, according to the Financial Times, was Spain's rapidly growing trade deficit, which had reached a staggering 10 % of the country's GDP by the summer of 2008, the " loss of competitiveness against its main trading partners " and, also, as a part of the latter, an inflation rate which had been traditionally higher than the one of its European partners, back then especially affected by house price increases of 150 % from 1998 and a growing family indebtedness ( 115 %) chiefly related to the Spanish Real Estate boom and rocketing oil prices.

By then, OUP had moved from being a parochial printer into a wide-ranging, university-owned publishing house with a growing international presence.

In consequence, a large service sector was established to serve the growing population, and in the first decades of the 20th century, Campinas could already boast of an opera house, theaters, banks, movie theaters, radio stations, a philharmonic orchestra, two newspapers ( Correio Popular and Diário do Povo ), a good public education system ( with the Escola Normal de Campinas and the Colégio Culto à Ciência ), and hospitals, such as the Santa Casa de Misericórdia ( a charity for poor people ) and the Casa de Saúde de Campinas ( for the Italian community, formely known as Circolo Italiani Uniti ), and the most important Brazilian research center in agricultural sciences, the Instituto Agronômico de Campinas, which was founded by Emperor Pedro II.

Grampa has a poor relationship with his son, who placed Grampa in a nursing home as soon as he could, despite Grampa selling his house in order to provide Homer with a mortgage, although its strongly and recurringly suggested that, while caring, Grampa was very controlling and even emotionally abusive towards Homer when he was growing up and he still had not forgiven him for that.

It is growing in the front yard of a house in a small upstate city, and is probably over 200 years old.

It consumes its milk, the house cat, the house's furnishings, rat poison, and passing vehicles, including airplanes and a blimp, growing larger and larger all the while.

Carl and Karin decorated and furnished this house according to their particular artistic taste and also for the needs of the growing family.

To house the growing population of Shepherd's Bush, a five-storey housing estate was built, which also took the name of the White City.

At Nandrai and Yashoda ’ s house Krishna ( who was growing up as their son ) met Radha.

* A change of lifestyle for Captain Haddock — becoming infatuated with a minimalist painter named Ramó Nash, changing his style of dress, transforming the house, and growing hashish in the cellars at Marlinspike.

The riots escalated when a group of 5 Moroccans drove a car into a group of Moluccans standing in a garden in front of a house, although tension had been growing after a car was set on fire a few days earlier.

There he built a log structure from timber growing near the lake, the first house of wood in the county.

It continued growing and it became necessary to build a much larger house, the Victoria Regia House.

In 1940, the chief local industries were: dairying, poultry raising, fruit growing, milk condensing, fruit and vegetable packing, brick and tile manufacturing, coal mining, portable house manufacturing, and fern shipping.

A separate building to house the growing research and development department was built northwest of the corporate office in Austin in 1968.

The city of Zebrzydów was established in 1617 in order to house the growing number of pilgrims visiting the religious complex.

Durrell founded the Jersey Zoological Park ( now Durrell Wildlife Park ) in 1958 to house his growing collection of animals.

Alice later catches up with the White Rabbit and, in his house, curiously she finds another " drink me " bottle and chances it growing her full 9 foot character once again.

He moved to Elizabethtown, today Elizabeth, New Jersey, in 1770, where he built a large country home to house his growing family.

The growing popularity of the Chilterns as a place to live from the latter part of the 20th century onwards led to restrictions on housing and industrial development in the Chilterns Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty and has sustained the demand for further house building in the town.