There were immaculate rolling grounds with an eight-car garage, an adjacent two-bedroom casita and an outdoor dining pavilion with a fireplace and kitchen surrounding a black gummite pool.
He found the house, a weather beaten cardboard bungalow at eighty a month, but at the last minute the firm ordered him to Washington and I went out to the country alone.
So here you'll probably want to learn some of the language around " houses" , " detached house" , a " townhouse" , a " bungalow flat" , an " apartment" , " high-rise building" .
To dissipate in some trifling measure her abiding sense of the murkiness of human life she went to the " linhay" or lean-to shed, which formed the root-store of their dwelling and abutted on the fuelhouse.
Christ, they'd managed to build the Eiffel Tower in 1889, but nowadays one couldn't come up with the bloody drawings for a one-story house without taking a break for someone to run off and recharge their cell phone.
The carriage rocked to a standstill in front of the flat little house and Rhett handed her out. Trembling, frightened, a sudden feeling of loneliness upon her, she clasped his arm.
So whether it's high ceilings, better insulation, brickwork, bungalows or square gardens, people in Britain have a wide variety of preferences when it comes to where they live.
The train stopped, at eight o'clock, in the midst of a glade some fifteen miles beyond Rothal, where there were several bungalows, and workmen's cabins.
Because her growth in a bungalow with a semicircle roof was a miserable experience, she had determined to struggle against prejudice and injustice since childhood.