house on the slope

He paused, and glared at the big brick house on the slope above the creek.

The buildings around the square and the houses on the slope circled Ermak, who looked ever eastward.

Over the past year I have often gazed at a lone house on the slopes of Achrafieh.

Like the river, the valley was filled with sand and dust, the isolated walls of the ruined houses on the slopes half-covered by the dunes.

The theory has been recently reinforced by the discovery of remains of Castraña houses on the slopes of the mountains.

According to tradition, the first settler in this area was Christian Seibt, who built his house on the slopes of Slovanka hill.

The ingenuous way of the tribes to build the houses on the slopes of the hills by using only cane and bamboo is a fascinating sight.

The architect had sited the house on the slope of a hill commanding a great variety of scenery and had given each bedroom its own special view.

Farther away from the house on the slopes of Devil's Peak, Rhodes kept antelopes, zebra, eland, wildebeest and ostriches.

The naval officer and two of his men were working their way down the slope toward them and lights were going on in the houses on the slope.

The last time I was in Afghanistan, in the summer of 2002, the honeycomb of wattle-and-daub houses on the slopes surrounding the city was mostly uninhabited.

Culann invited Conchobhar mac Neasa, king of Ulster, to a feast at his house on the slopes of Slieve Gullion.

It was found in the ground owned by canon Theodorus Joannes Godding, and the latter one displayed it in his country house on the slope of the hill.

Schwitters later created a similar environment in the garden of his house in Lysaker, near Oslo, known as the Haus am Bakken (the house on the slope).

His McGillivray nephews organised his funeral, settled his will and built a memorial for him within the grounds of his house on the slopes of Mount Royal.

Our hotel, Ottley's Plantation Inn, is the best and most exclusive on the island, a two-storey house on the slopes of a mountain, with views across cane fields towards the sea.

And regarding the larger houses on the slopes of the Norwood hills, D. Olsen (1976) remarks: "the mass-produced villas failed ludicrously to be baronial castles or ducal hunting lodges."

As we worked out, he confided that Oprah owns a house on the slopes, which I later saw from a quad lift, that she had terrific endurance and that she had lost some weight.

But here a thin frieze of very old trees had been preserved for the delectation of the lairds who looked out from their houses on the slopes - Cluny, Grandtully, Clochfoldich, Pitcastle.

They brought up a family of nine daughters and four sons and lived at Ravenscrag, Allan's sumptuous Italian Renaissance house on the slopes of Mount Royal, formerly the estate of Simon McTavish.

The clerk came forward - a small portly man with the cinnamon skin and golden eyes of an upper-caste Majar, one of those who lived in the timber and stucco houses on the slopes at the back of Old Town.

By 1891, when she achieved greater success, she and her daughters moved up the Hudson River to Cornwall-on-Hudson, New York, where they renovated a house on the slopes of Storm King Mountain and named it Cherry Croft.

AFTER MIDNIGHT ON the water bed in the master bedroom of Jaax house on the slopes of Catoctin Mountain, Nancy and Jerry Jaax caught up on the news while their daughter, Jaime, slept beside them.

Mr. Lea, who is 93, is sitting in the living room of his house on the slope of the Franklin Mountains, the same simple home where he and his wife, Sarah, have lived for decades above the dun-colored streets of El Paso and its Mexican sister city, Ciudad Juarez.

He embarked for South Africa in 1892 ostensibly to visit his brother, and was commissioned in 1893 by Cecil Rhodes to remodel Groote Schuur, Rhodes' house on the slopes of Table Mountain in Cape Town, and the residence of South African prime ministers.