The layout of the house bears out this attitude.
One house bore the portrait of Saddam Hussein, the Iraqi leader, beside the front door.
His house bears the sole sign for Rue Pétain (street signs in France are often on the sides of houses), and he says he is comfortable with it.
In his reading, the Distracted Couple buys a house, bears a child, breaks up, argues over a deed, gets back together, commits adultery, and smashes photos.
But a faded card affixed to a mailbox at the house bore the name Charles A. Bock, and property records indicated that the building was owned by F. L. Bock.
Strangely, the new house bears the same plaque the old one had, identifying it as a 19th-century cultural monument in which Mr. Popkov lived.
The house bears the handiwork of Bob, the old farmer who raised cows and cauliflower there, and never had an easy time with either one.
MENTON, FRANCE — When Margaret and Michael Likierman first saw Les Colombières, a Roman-style villa that was reinvented by the artist and landscape architect Ferdinand Bac, the house bore little resemblance to its glory days of the 1920s and '30s.
While no definitive murder weapon has been found, the police said an eight-inch kitchen knife at Mr. Sollecito's house bore traces of Ms. Kercher's DNA near the tip and Ms. Knox's near the handle.
To a trained eye, the house bears all the signs of being occupied by migrant workers who have been packed into the three-room house, two or three to a room, with three more in the sitting room, sleeping on cheap metal bed frames, some without pillows, most without sheets.
The building itself, Nariman House, bears the name of a Parsi, as Zoroastrians are known in India, as does the city's premier business district, the nearby Nariman Point.
