1 You wouldn't hear him in the house any more than now.
2 I mounted the staircase and gained the upper part of the house.
3 It was a dark rainy evening and there was no sound in the house.
4 Of course she had to work hard, both in the house and at business.
5 I left the house in bad humour and walked slowly towards the school.
6 In the evening my aunt took me with her to visit the house of mourning.
7 The former tenant of our house, a priest, had died in the back drawing-room.
8 The next morning after breakfast I went down to look at the little house in Great Britain Street.
9 He had been a very charitable priest; in his will he had left all his money to institutions and the furniture of his house to his sister.
10 Their cries reached me weakened and indistinct and, leaning my forehead against the cool glass, I looked over at the dark house where she lived.
11 His parents went to eight-o'clock mass every morning in Gardiner Street and the peaceful odour of Mrs. Dillon was prevalent in the hall of the house.
12 The wild garden behind the house contained a central apple-tree and a few straggling bushes under one of which I found the late tenant's rusty bicycle-pump.
13 She had hard work to keep the house together and to see that the two young children who had been left to her charge went to school regularly and got their meals regularly.
14 The man out of the last house passed on his way home; she heard his footsteps clacking along the concrete pavement and afterwards crunching on the cinder path before the new red houses.
15 I too listened; but there was no sound in the house: and I knew that the old priest was lying still in his coffin as we had seen him, solemn and truculent in death, an idle chalice on his breast.
16 But still and all he kept on saying that before the summer was over he'd go out for a drive one fine day just to see the old house again where we were all born down in Irishtown and take me and Nannie with him.
17 An uninhabited house of two storeys stood at the blind end, detached from its neighbours in a square ground The other houses of the street, conscious of decent lives within them, gazed at one another with brown imperturbable faces.
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