HOUSE in Classic Quotes

Simple words can express big ideas - learn how great writers to make beautiful sentences with common words.
Quotes from Dubliners by James Joyce
Free Online Vocabulary Test
K12, SAT, GRE, IELTS, TOEFL
 Search Panel
Word:
You may input your word or phrase.
Author:
Book:
 
Stems:
If search object is a contraction or phrase, it'll be ignored.
Sort by:
Each search starts from the first page. Its result is limited to the first 17 sentences. If you upgrade to a VIP account, you will see up to 500 sentences for one search.
Common Search Words
 Current Search - house in Dubliners
1  You wouldn't hear him in the house any more than now.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In THE SISTERS
2  I mounted the staircase and gained the upper part of the house.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In ARABY
3  It was a dark rainy evening and there was no sound in the house.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In ARABY
4  Of course she had to work hard, both in the house and at business.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In EVELINE
5  I left the house in bad humour and walked slowly towards the school.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In ARABY
6  In the evening my aunt took me with her to visit the house of mourning.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In THE SISTERS
7  The former tenant of our house, a priest, had died in the back drawing-room.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In ARABY
8  The next morning after breakfast I went down to look at the little house in Great Britain Street.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In THE SISTERS
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.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In ARABY
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.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In ARABY
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.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In AN ENCOUNTER
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.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In ARABY
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.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In EVELINE
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.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In EVELINE
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.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In THE SISTERS
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.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In THE SISTERS
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.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In ARABY
Your search result may include more than 17 sentences. If you upgrade to a VIP account, you will see up to 500 sentences for one search.