Beyond the barren grassland were sudden saw-edged peaks, black and menacing, and on one of those rocky crags was a white-walled house which had the gaunt gallows of a semaphore station built on its roof.

From the kitchen of the new white-walled house came a hearty, almost masculine cry: "Tend your figures.

Ashlea Ebeling and Craig Bloom have lived for two years in a minimalist white-walled house designed by Hugh Smallen.

He started the car again and went slowly down the hill and then into the town of white-walled houses and presently parked close to the cathedral.

He led the chestnut mare from her stall at the rear of the white-walled house and bridled her.

And Daniel's desire was the fevered dream of his half-sensible interludes in the cage, when the fields were green and the canal pure and full and orchards bloomed beside a white-walled house.

Within the town the narrow, sharply angled, steeply inclined streets run through banks of white-walled houses whose Arabic origins are evident everywhere.

At the bottom of the slope was a white-walled house, built alongside a mountain stream.

He looked around at the few white-walled houses shaded by low palm trees.

And there, at the foot of the stairs, was a great white-walled house with strange lights burning in its windows.