I could see half a dozen houses strung along the narrow, patchy band of road leading south, the last one of them a huge and undeniably elegant hacienda.

He left his gig at the wharves and walked westward from the bustling docks until he and his grandson came to a section of evil-smelling little houses strung along a network of alleys.

In Portuguese, caiada means whitewashed, and like the picturesque historic district in nearby Olinda, the neighborhood of Iputinga features small whitewashed houses strung along dirt or cobblestone roads.

They came on a road, and followed it; and it brought them by dusk into a village: ten or a dozen houses strung along the road.

Betsy Bay is really just a handful of houses strung along a lonely road that ends at a graveyard and a deserted beach that curves for miles.

Killeany comprises about a dozen houses strung along the road.

During King William's War, when Wells contained about 80 houses and log cabins strung along the Post Road, the town was attacked on June 9, 1691 by about 200 Native Americans commanded by the sachem Moxus.

The settlement lies four or five streets deep along the lake, with houses strung close together on small lots.

There were a good many houses strung along the slopes above the inner bay, and in summer quite a few people resided there, but in winter the population dropped to less than a quarter of the summer people.

It lay on a narrow plateau above the fens, the houses strung along the northerly of two converging roads.