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one that feared God with all his house

A small publishing house would have a contract with an independent fulfillment house.

One more, sir, then I'll have to stop serving you – rules of the house, I'm afraid.

To this the pauper replied that he did not want that, and that rather than be sent to the house he would look out for work.

Miss Phyllis Morgan, as the hapless heroine dressed in the shabbiest of clothes, appears in the midst of a gay and giddy throng; she apostrophises all and sundry there, including the villain, and has a magnificent scene which always brings down the house, and nightly adds to her histrionic laurels.

After her swan-song, there wasn't a dry eye in the house.

The petition was so ridiculous that the house rejected it after minimal debate.

A curse lay upon the House of Atreus.

Like a pestilence, it doth infect / The houses of the brain.

I was a member of Spenser house when I was at school.

Since there was a limited number of planets, houses and signs of the zodiac, the astrologers tended to reduce human potentialities to a set of fixed types and to postulate only a limited number of possible variations.

As the babysitter, Emma always acted as the mother whenever the kids demanded to play house.