But I am thinking, as my wife and children enjoy the country so much, that it is an object for me to purchase a snug little place where they may pass the summer.
From this time, Clyde Farm became wholly a place of business.
And yet I have heard you say, that you bought this place lower," said Howard, "than any which you would now occupy.
I will sell this place to you for what you gave for it.
Mr. Draper purchased the place when real estate was low, and it had since risen to more than double its original value.
The zeal and ardor of the people during the Revolutionary war, supplying the place of government, commanded a degree of order sufficient at least for the temporary preservation of society.
I didn't like it much the first night I was there, because there was a dashed tap that went drip-drip-drip all night and kept me awake, but the placehas its points.
There followed a brief council of war, which, as it took place in the bedroom, was inaudible to Archie except as a distant growling noise.
The door of the studio was ajar, and he went in, to discover the place occupied by a lady of mature years, who was scrubbing the floor with a mop.
He bulged in practically every place in which a man can bulge, and his head was almost entirely free from hair.
This man McCall has a place next to some property father bought in Westchester, and he's bringing a law-suit against father about a bit of land which he claims belongs to him.
This chappie, living in a place like this, wouldn't bat an eyelid at the spectacle of a fellow trickling about the place in a bathing suit.
Rather bright and so forth, but in its proper place not altogether a bad egg.
The placewas a cloth morgue, a Sargasso Sea of serge.
This admirable Prohibition enactment has rendered America--to my mind--the idealplace for a young man of his views.
Yet only a few moments before a long green snake with three hundred ribs, a distensible gullet, and gastrocentrous vertebras must have descended on that street like the gentle rain from Heaven upon the place beneath.
I can tell you, mon, I've walked more miles o' the Sawbath to my place o' worship than some folks as I know walks in a week.
This was the only important point brought out at the inquest, which took place in a couple of days.
Though the Antrim glens had been the scene of such courtship as it is possible to conceive of between Michael McAravey and Elizabeth Kane, they had for many years ceased to be the place of their abode.
The heather gives place to dwarf shrubs; the bare, weather-beaten rocks are clothed with blackberry bushes, or hidden amid luxurious bracken.
So saying, he proceeded to lift in his arms the heaps that were nearest the sea, and to place them beyond the high-water line.
Most of the children lived at a considerable distance from the place of meeting; nor was a walk across the moors always feasible in rough weather.
It appeared that before the old man's death the locket had been brought out from its place of concealment, and, in presence of the priest, handed over to Hendrick, who had next day brought it to the rector.
Rosamund strove to keep her cabin to avoid him, but the heat of the summer sun in the Mediterranean drove her out of it to a place beneath an awning on the poop, where she sat with the woman Marie.
Also, yonder is a fearsome place on which to ride a course, and one of which none but that devil Sinan would have thought.
But to Saladin say also that whatever his bigot faith may teach, for Christian and for Paynim there is a meeting-place beyond the grave.
But it is of no avail, for this is the place of my dream.
Quickly the tidings spread among them that Sir Andrew was slain, and the lady Rosamund snatched away by Paynims, while all who feasted in the place had been drugged with poisoned wine by a man whom they believed to be a merchant.
For an instant the sunlight shone on his white and fluttering robe, then from the depths of that darksome place floated up the sound of a heavy fall, and all was still.
Godwin thought to himself that it was like another smile, that on the face of the woman-headed, stone sphinx which they had seen set up in the marketplace of Beirut.
That altar is the holiest and most noted place of sanctuary in all Jerusalem.
Come, let us begone from this place as swiftly as we can.
The fashion of walking in this place shews how the character of a nation changes.
I had, therefore, to pass Chrisoffsky's place again.
You would never suggest to your neighbor on the right to pass you the cheese; but you would rise in your place and, with a firm grasp on your knife, reach over his plate and impale the tempting morsel.
The guide led me to the face of a sandstone bluff, and said, "Here is the place from which they took the ore.
He glanced over his shoulder as if looking for some place to run, and exclaimed in a deep and piteous tone, "Dia Bog!
This place had been a favorite rendezvous for traders, and the schooner had come to exchange the products of civilization for the skins offered by the natives.
It took place in plain sight of the dogs, who leaped in their collars, and yelled applause at every stroke of the knife.
Almost the first thing I saw was a hand above the water, grasping the edge of the raft, and another feeling eagerly for a place to get hold.
Had I been compelled to stay in one place I should have feared for my reason.
After the poles are lashed in place by the women the deerhides are fastened over them separately, not sewed together; for this would make it difficult to move readily.
By five o'clock, we saw signs of deer, which showed us that we were nearing the encampment that was to be our lodging-place for the night.
I pitched camp in a favorable place and went to work in good spirits.
The corpse is dressed in his finest clothes, and drawn to the place of cremation by his favorite deer.
We were just half way across the bare tundra, the worst place possible in which to try to weather one of these storms, because of the utter lack of fire-wood.
Lemminkainen said: 'When my father Lempo comes to a house as a guest, he is well received and given the place of honour.
Still he was not discouraged, but for three days he wandered about, looking for a place to build a workshop.
They were nearly finished--about six feet long and five inches wide in the broadest part, with a place in the middle to fasten them on to the feet, and the front ends were turned up.
Soon he came to a place where the road branched off in three directions.
But before they had gone much farther, they came to a place where there were lovely maidens singing sweetly on the shore, but all around were hidden rocks and whirlpools, and their vessel was near sinking.
Louhi's husband answered: 'I have never yet refused a place in my stables for a stranger's horse, and if thou wilt act honestly there is a place for thee between the iron kettles.
But when he went to look for a place to work in, he could find no place, and not even so much as a pair of bellows to blow his fire with.
As this book is only intended for children, it would be out of place to discuss the age, etc.
No sooner had she ended her appeal to Ukko than a lovely duck flew down out of the sky, and hovered over the waters looking for a place to alight; but it found none.
Then he rose, and hovering over them, warmed them into a yet deeper slumber, and then hurried back to his place in the sky.
And, on the whole, I should be inclined to place West and Central African art, at any rate, on a level with Egyptian.
Fifty years ago the nice housewife still prided herself on knowing the right place for everything.
Renoir will have his place in that school, but another niche has been prepared for him amongst an even grander company.
Had he kept it there John might never have tasted the sweets of insular renown: he would have had his place in the history of painting, however.
Friesz has arrived: that is to say, what he has already achieved suffices to affirm the existence of a distinct, personal talent entitled to its place in the republic of painting.
His emotions are kept severely in their place by rigorous concentration on the art of painting.
I cannot forbear in this place giving you some description of the fashions here, which are more monstrous and contrary to all common sense and reason, than 'tis possible for you to imagine.
The following occurrence ought not to be passed over in silence, in a place where so few notable ones are to be met with.
She ordered cushions to be given to me, and took care to place me in the corner, which is the place of honour.
He said he really thought of getting some shooting-place in Scotland, and promised me a longer visit on his return.
He hopes (trusts) that a quiet resting placeis prepared for him.
Whence this love for every place and every country but that in which we reside--for every occupation but our own?
I said to myself, 'I have never yet quitted a place without gaining a friend; adversity is a good school; the poor are born to labour, and the dependent to endure.
At the same time Felicite Gauvrit, who had refused to take her place in the chain of dancers, drew near the table where Mathurin was sitting.
Toussaint Lumineau took his place in the stern at his son's head.
His place in the diminished family was reserved to him with tender, affectionate regret, a regret that even magnified what had been his place there.
Sister, you are the elder; you take the placeof the mother.
His two sons had gone down to the meadow, where the dyke, widening, served as a drinking place for the animals on the farm, and as a harbour for the two punts belonging to it.
She has reached the long open Place that narrows as it reaches the church.
It was a fine place after all," they said to themselves.
When you bothered me to find you a good place at La Roche, did I not trouble myself about you on the condition that you would keep house for me?
The farmstead where the gathering was held was a fairly modern building, the usual large house-place being divided into two rooms of unequal size.
It is true that I loved everything about the place for your sake, Rousille.
Going through the house-place he passed into the kitchen, where he met Rousille.
This animal is apparently not abundant at any place in its range.
This would placethe animal at a slight disadvantage before being able to make the next jump.
This characterization of the family includes all of the members of the subfamilies Perognathinae, Heteromyinae and Dipodomyinae as well as the genus Microdipodops which I am disinclined to place with any of the three subfamilies.
We are told that the place is now lighted up and that we may betake ourselves thither.
To find himself in the dead of night before such a place might well make a man falter.
It is a place oval in form, with a vault of a funereal black, relieved by frescoes, either white or of the colour of ashes.
The place is, moreover, so singular and so terrible that its mere name would at once cast a spell upon the spirit, even if one were ignorant of the place itself.
When the sun lights thus the forlorn distances, when you perceive stretching away to the horizon these fields of death, you realise better what kind of a place this Thebes once was.
The road is Levantine in its general character; and we should have no clear notion of the place did we not see in our rapid, noisy passage signs that recall us to the land of the Arabs.
And the courtyard has become a place voluntarily closed, where nothing of the outside world is any longer to be seen.
But this one has never reached its place and never held its mummy.
And, in a place of honour, a large astronomical glass, through which men watch the rising of the moon of Ramadan.
Everybody was now on the qui vive, a pleasant excitement taking the place of that stolid sullen indifference and apathy on the part of our crew which had gradually resulted from the skipper's ill-advised harshness to them.
No," said our friend; "the placehas never yet been surveyed, and Giuseppe will not permit anyone to sound anywhere within the entrance to the lagoon.
It was dark by the time that we reached the harbour; we were consequently unable to see much of the place that night beyond the fact that it lay at the base of a lofty range of hills.
Previous to this, however, I had secured his despatch-box and had put it in a place of safety, otherwise I have no doubt he would have promptly dropped it overboard out of the stern windows.
And the entrance to the place is very difficult indeed, as you will see, gentlemen, when we come to it.
In their place a solitary figure sat on a baluster drinking smoke contemplatively from a pipe of clay.
The little Parliament party soon learned that there was no taking the place by a rush or a ruse, that it was discretion to keep due distance and invest.
The place of peace, where every man was arming, where citizens were handling steel with unfamiliar fingers, and where a rover like himself could not hope to let his sword lie idle.
His voice and his eyes were very merry, but there came an unconquerable gnawing at his heart that, in spite of the fair place and the fair face and the sweet discourse, life for him meant no more than a space of three days.
As she stepped back with her trophy Evander pushed the table aside to afford him passage from his alcove, and, saluting the lady, took his former place between his warders.
Halfman would have given a shilling for a lonely placeto laugh his fill in.
Heroes of the house, heroines of the house, stared or smiled from their canvases on the mortal shadows that flitted through the great place till it should be their turn to swell the company of the elect in frames of gold.
As indifferent to her words as to the angry carriage of the Cavaliers, Evander stepped tranquilly back to his place between his warders.
She and Captain Halfman meant to hold the place for the King so long as there was a place to hold.
I have seen hot service in hot lands; have helped to take towns and helped to hold towns, and if it be your pleasure, as it will be your prudence, to avail of my aid, I will show you how we can maintain this place against an army.
Up to now he had been civil enough, even if his civility had not been of a quality greatly to Evander's liking, yet now his blustering good-humor gave place to something akin to deliberate offence.
For I was minded to blow the place to pieces rather than yield it to this gentleman who would so speciously persuade me to surrender.
It passed away, and she had been sitting quite peacefully for some time, when he told her they were near the place where they were to stop and join their friends.
Anxiety as well as pain had in some measure given place to exhaustion, and she looked a white embodiment of endurance which gave a shock to her friends' sympathy.
They were ushered up-stairs into a little parlour furnished in the usual style, with one or two articles a great deal too showy for the place and a general dearth as to the rest.
And also as Fleda had said, or hoped, the place was so far from convenient access that nobody had visited them; they were thick hung with fruit.
That won't alter my liking, and I don't think a lady's lap is a place for a dog.
Her spirits were in their old place again; no more a tip-toe to-night.
I want to know what kind of a place New York is, now," said old Mrs. Finn drawlingly.
All the home-like peace of the place was spread out to make it hard going away.
The place had somewhat the air of a study, perhaps Thorn's private room.
The following morning he returned to the ruins, armed with a lever, and recognised the place where on the previous night he had seen the opening.
He went to the same place where he had met the kid, but did not see her.
A little later they saw the man with two faces come out of the cage and walk in the direction of the place where Claudio was.
Every five minutes he yawned, and in every room of the palace there were attendants whose only mission was to place a boiled egg in the monarch's mouth as soon as he commenced to open it.
The captain advanced quickly, and taking up his place at the side of the circle of little men, saluted the dwarfs with great courtesy.
The entire population flocked to the place where the hand of the beautiful princess, whose virtues everybody praised highly, was to be won in open contest.
You must place the action of this story in a place where there are no medical men, for if there were, certainly they would put the quack in prison where he would not see daylight for a long time.
He flew again towards the place where he had left Claudio.
The following night he hid himself in the ruins and watched the place where the marvellous event took place.
A stand was erected in the public place for the king, the judges, and the court, and shortly afterwards the princes, bearing their arms and mounted on superb horses, rode into the lists.
There he thrust it in many times, with the aid of a stone which he used in place of a hammer.
He could not find one, to his great unhappiness; and if he had not had that quantity of pride in his body, he would surely have felt his lack of education, which might place him in an awkward situation, which happened soon afterwards.
You will find: v in place of u, y in place of i, y in place of ie, ie in place of y.
No, let vs go our selues into some place yet more secret and priuie.
I haue a Closet wherein I lay vp my Iewels and array, a place so darke that vnneth the one of vs shall see the other.
Yet mee thinketh this place is not close & secret ynough.
I would gladly talke with you friendlye in some place aparte from all companye.
Profoundly yours--" Two men came through the Place d'Armes on conspicuously fine horses.
He was just trying to hear imaginary pistol-shots down toward the Place d'Armes, when the apothecary returned.
Before the view lies the Place d'Armes in its green-breasted uniform of new spring grass crossed diagonally with white shell walks for facings, and dotted with the élite of the city for decorations.
Moreover, at that moment there was a slight unwonted stir on thePlace d'Armes.
Happily man cannot so placehis brother that his misery will continue unmitigated.
The day was rapidly giving place to night and the people were withdrawing to their homes.
Obviously, the place to commence at was that brightly illuminated title-page, the ladies Nancanou.
With what splendor of manner Madame Fusilier de Grandissime offers, and he accepts, the place of honor!
The Place d'Armes offered amusement to every one else rather than to the immigrant.
The work of this circle is still going on in connection, with the Bulfinch Place Church; and every year it raises a large sum of money for the charitable work of the ministry at large.
For twenty years he was superintendent of the school connected with the Twelfth Congregational Society, holding that place from its organization in 1827.
Hymns of nearly all these men are in common use in many congregations, and some of their work has found a place in every hymnal.
In most Unitarian churches there is no longer any question as to the right of women to take any place they are individually fitted to occupy.
The fidelity of John Quincy Adams to freedom during many years is known to every one, and his service in the national House has given him a foremost place in the company of the anti-slavery leaders.
In whom, then, I would ask, is it most natural for us to place our trust?
According as the hot air leaves the room, cold air enters to supply its place through the open doors or windows, or, if these be closed, through every little crevice which can give it passage.
The true ring is probably lost; and to supply its place your father ordered three spurious ones for common use among you.
If the air of a city be injured by the large quantity of carbonic acid which is formed, a city should be the best place possible for the health of vegetables.
At this camping place I stripped and was about to take a swim.
The "pork knockers" have no mines; they journey from place to place up and down the river with pick and shovel and sieve, with a small quantity of food on their backs, and make shelter wherever they happen to be.
Frequently the men prefer the extra portion of sugar in place of the peas, as the sugar is a delicacy with them, desired above all else.
The starting out place for the trip was twenty miles from Georgetown at a town upriver called Bartica.
Eagerly we stumbled out into the clearing and saw the few huts, but the place was deserted.
The blacks jumped out into the shoal water and swung the boat into place and made it fast.
Two beautiful white egrets sailed up the river and, without fear of us at all, proceeded to make a nesting place close to our camp site.
The sturdy Boviander bowman took his place at the bow with his immense paddle, the twenty paddle men took their places in four groups of five, one group on each side, forward and aft of the cargo.
We found a landing place and, guided by the fearful din and the flickering lights, made our way through the jungle to the higher, dry ground beyond.
It was at this place that Colonel Roosevelt stopped when he visited the colony.
She had seen an uneven place in it, knew that it would not be comfortable, and fixed it.
Beneath this they place their belongings and they sleep in hammocks at night.
Two braces are then fitted into this, and it is left to dry; as the drying takes place the ends are drawn up a little.
We also had to set up our mine, arrange with Indians to hunt a steady supply of food, make a permanent cooking place and get as comfortable as possible so that we could go ahead with our diamond mining without interruption.
In the following year Braid, in the second place in the lists, was the foremost man of the three.
This is a jacket that has won itsplace in golfing history.
The only time when a crowd is bearable at St. Andrews is on the autumn medal day, and then, indeed, it is as if the tradition and the sanctity of the place are intensified.
One golfer played his ball on to a "floating green," and after vainly trying to dodge the sphere along the waters into the neighbourhood of the place where the hole was, he picked it out and claimed the right to play again some other day.
Medal is toasted, and he is called up from his place that the captain with solemn ceremony may invest him with the medal, hanging it round his neck.
The news of something that took place recently in golfing India came over the sea, and the committees and members of very small clubs were fired with a new idea.
When you are at Gullane you may think it is better than North Berwick as a place to stay and holiday in.
First there was theplace for the date, then for the name of the links, and the third for the statement of the parties to the match.
Legal advisers told his friends at last that restoration was impossible: his place was filled.
In 'A Faithful Traitor' the author has done something more than to place before us the people and the events of an ordinary love-affair.
It deals with that most difficult material, the common-place every-day life that everybody knows.
If you do not instantly withdraw I shall place you under arrest.
Of course the club-room was not the only place where Barclay's really bewildering appearance was discussed.
Could it be that the gang only started from the place of Cramer's ambuscade as though to go to the Pass and then veered around again and covered that trail, and for some reason have been expecting the paymaster that way after all?
I only want a place for my armory; and, thank God, I can wait for that, these being no times for building.
Visit the nunnery and Reilig Oran, or burial-place of St. Oran, but the night coming on we return on board.
This landing-place could formerly be raised at pleasure, being of the nature of a drawbridge.
A huge ledge of rock, almost halfway up one side of the vault, served for altar and pulpit; and the appearance of a priest and Highland congregation in such an extraordinary place of worship might have engaged the pencil of Salvator.
From the intercourse that took place betwixt us while the work was going through my press, I know that the exquisite truth and power of your characters operated on his mind at once to excite and subdue it.
The harbor seems a little neat secure placeof anchorage.
This little place comes on as fast as can be reasonably hoped; and the pinasters are all above the ground, but cannot be planted out for twelve months.
Continue our voyage southward, and pass between the Main of Ireland and the Isle of Rachrin, a rude heathy-looking island, once a place of refuge to Robert Bruce.
The entrance is by a staircase, which conducts you to a wooden landing-place in front of the portal-door.
We landed at an excellent quay, which is not yet finished, and found the little place looked thriving and active.
He found this person indisposed to rise, alleging that Charles had disappointed them both in the place of landing, and the support he had promised.
Paternoster Row, I am about to be enabled to placetheir security, as well as my own, between your Grace and the possibility of hazard.
Bobby strolled down the Place de la Concorde, but before he reached Maxim's his heart misgave him; he was reviewing the events of the evening and, though he could not justify it, his mind was full of suspicion.
By the time I reached our place I found the chief in the deuce of a stew.
One winter morning, some months afterwards, a seedy-looking individual called at Portland Place with a typewritten letter, requiring an answer.
If they did, he thinks that the world would not be such an unpleasant placeto live in.
Address: Hôtel des Indes, The Hague--quite a comfortable place and quite an important German espionage centre.
But in these circumstances I have to inform you with great regret that I shall immediatelyplace my resignation of the chairmanship in the hands of the Prime Minister.
On such occasions she would sweetly ask him to drop her at a certain place and to fetch her at a certain time; then she would disappear and Bobby would be left to spend the interval kicking his heels.
The look of astonishment Bobby had noticed before had given place to one of mingled surprise and curiosity.
This crisis in his private affairs took place when the country was torn by dissensions over Tariff Reform.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "place" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
