`` On each side of the Hoogli, where we are now sailing, are the Hindoo cottages, as thick together as the houses in our seaports.

The pagodas we have passed are much larger than the houses ''.

Almost all of the 3,000 lumber dealers who cater primarily to the new-house market and supply 90% of this year's new houses are mechanized.

These signs are the inventories of unsold houses in some areas of the country and the moderate rise in vacancy rates for apartments ( 7.6% in September ).

Now, not only are there considerably more laity as students and professors at Oxford, but there are also numerous houses of religious orders existing in respectable and friendly relations with the non-Catholic members of the University.

Watch people flock to amusement houses, cocktail lounges, and night clubs that advertise continuous entertainment, which means an endless flow of noise and frivolity by paid entertainers who are supposed to perform in those incredible ways which are designed to give men a few hours of dubious relaxation -- watch them and you can tell that many of them are running away from something.

But they are aware of the world outside, they court public approval, they delight in full houses, and they occasionally dare to experiment in interpreting a dramatic classic.

There are approximately 80 ruined houses in the village.

In many places, independent, non-licensed individuals are permitted to offer design services outside of the professional restrictions-such as the design of houses and other smaller structures.

The houses are separated from one another by fruit gardens.

They are also considered by their placement in houses ( spatial divisions of the sky ).

The houses built by the Perano family are now operated as tourist accommodations.

* Structures ; Ruins of palaces, palatial villas, houses, built dome-or cist-graves and fortifications ( Aegean islands, Greek mainland and northwestern Anatolia ), but not distinct temples ; small shrines, however, and temene ( religious enclosures, remains of one of which were probably found at Petsofa near Palaikastro by J. L. Myres in 1904 ) are represented on intaglios and frescoes.

The two most popular heaters for ultra-high-efficiency houses are a small heat pump, which also provides air-conditioning, or a central hydronic ( radiator ) air heater with water recirculating from the water heater.

Alameda is known for its Victorian houses ; 9 % of all single-family houses ( 1500 ) in Alameda are Victorian, and many more have been divided into two to four-unit dwellings.

Rather, in modern times, the various autonomous houses have formed themselves loosely into congregations ( for example, Cassinese, English, Solesmes, Subiaco, Camaldolese, Sylvestrines ) that in turn are represented in the Benedictine Confederation that came into existence through Pope Leo XIII's Apostolic Brief " Summum semper " on July 12, 1883.

On the edges of Barcelonnette and Jausiers there are several houses and villas of colonial style ( known as maisons mexicaines ), constructed by emigrants to Mexico who returned to France between 1870 and 1930.

There are records of several prophets believed to be incarnate banshees attending the great houses of Ireland and the courts of local Irish kings.

< p > Gone are the old-time Broadway oyster bars and chop houses that were the survivors of a tradition of their sporting patrons, the bon vivants of Manhattan.

There was not enough money to put up more new buildings, and so the houses in the other streets are nearly all still standing.

and now, therefore, do I, John A. Notte, Jr., governor of the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, proclaim the week of april 29th to may 7th, 1961, as Rhode Island Heritage Week, advising our citizens that throughout this week many historic houses and beautiful gardens will be open to visitors as well as industrial plants, craft shops, museums and libraries and I earnestly urge all to take advantage of these opportunities to see as many of these places as they can during this outstanding week.

There was a small, neon-lighted restaurant and cocktail lounge on the southeast corner of the intersection as he turned into the quiet, palm-lined street where most of the houses on both sides were older two-story mansions, now cut up into furnished rooms and housekeeping apartments.

The Carnegie-donated library is now owned by the Johnstown Area Heritage Association, and houses the Flood Museum.

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.

Today it no longer houses collections of natural history, and the books and manuscripts it once held now form part of the independent British Library.

The historic Chicago Cultural Center ( 1897 ), originally serving as the Chicago Public Library, now houses the city's Visitor Information Center, galleries and exhibit halls.

The former site of Commodore's operational headquarters in West Chester, Pennsylvania, now houses the headquarters and broadcast studios of leading cable retailer QVC, Inc. ( On November 26, 2004, QVC became the first retailer to sell the DTV, a " C64 in a joystick " designed by Jeri Ellsworth.

In Livonia ( present-day Latvia and Estonia ), in 1441, 1442, 1510 and 1514, the Brotherhood of Blackheads erected a tree for the holidays in their guild houses in Reval ( now Tallinn ) and Riga.

In 2002, Djibouti agreed to host a U. S. military presence at Camp Lemonnier, a former French Foreign Legion base outside the capital that now houses approximately 3, 500 American personnel.

The airport itself, now called Eindhoven Airport, had moved earlier to a new location, paving the way for much needed new houses.

The station's new Main Building, which now houses the Immigration Museum, was opened in 1900.

Main Building, which now houses the Immigration Museum

The area where Green Hedges once stood is now occupied by houses and a street called Blyton Close.

The River Ems, which is named after the village ( not, as often believed, the town named after the river ) also flows into the Slipper millpond, and although the mill is no longer in use it now houses a number of offices.

To get rid of the books from the past ( and their copies ), the government implemented a program using the firemen to burn the books ( now that houses were being rebuilt to be fire-resistant ) and placate the masses.

There is also Fraser Square which is not so square-like since it now opens out into Middle Street but it still houses the Imperial Hotel.

This mansion house now houses the Museum of the Basque Country, whose exhibits highlight physical, political, economic and linguistic features of Basque History and renowned Basque personages.

In 1998 Giger acquired the Château St. Germain in Gruyères, Switzerland, and it now houses the H. R. Giger Museum, a permanent repository of his work.

Due to the threat of war, plans for a lavish museum were never implemented, but once the war was over it was possible to construct the relatively understated but well-lit modern exhibition extension, opened in 1977, that now houses much of the collection.

The original functions of an inn are now usually split among separate establishments, such as hotels, lodges, and motels, all of which might provide the traditional functions of an inn but which focus more on lodging customers than on other services ; public houses, which are primarily alcohol-serving establishments ; and restaurants and taverns, which serve food and drink.

The French traveller Laurent d ' Arvieux described the city in 1659 as " now desolate, and consists only of about fifty poor houses, in bad condition ...

The houses were demolished in 1927 and the site is now occupied by the Hay – Adams Hotel.

These mews now provide very attractive private accommodation which can fetch similar prices to flats in the grand houses they once served.