Sentence examples for pleasant house from inspiring English sources

The family had a pleasant house in Madras, and its members thought of themselves as modernisers.

He rented a pleasant house in the northern suburbs of Christchurch in preparation for the arrival of his wife.

A short drive from the farm is the Anne of Green Gables Museum, a pleasant house owned by Montgomery's cousins.

Her home, studio and kiln are in a small, pleasant house here in a rural corner of Hunterdon County.

The New Yorker, June 14 , 1958P. 31 The Warrens lived in a pleasant house at the seashore in England.

But to Laura's fresh young eyes it was a pleasant house, surrounded by flowers and with the music of a running stream and rustling leaves.

There, he built Port Sunlight, a company town where soap factory workers lived in pleasant houses near the improving influences of libraries and museums.

By The New Yorker August 12, 2008 Roger and Anthony are still in the pleasant housing project of neat brick duplexes in Newport, Tennessee, where I found them a year ago.

They're light-years ahead of the happy fools in "Dumb and Dumber," as evidenced by their totems of conventional grown-up life: wives, children, unremarkable jobs, pleasant houses, sport jackets, pleated slacks, $10 haircuts and sensible cars.

It's always difficult to convince them of the sweet ruefulness of the place, or to convey the particular brand of unassuming grace that somehow flourished in that hodgepodge of industrial squalor, polluted swampland and blandly pleasant housing developments.

On a Sunday afternoon a few days after the verdict, Alla Lupyan-Grafman took me on a tour of the Bukharan neighborhood in Forest Hills, a district of pleasant houses on side streets — with the gilded McMansions rising strangely among them — that flank an avenue, called 108th Street, lined with well-maintained red brick apartment buildings.