great house
Noun
Meaning
great house (plural great houses)
(historical) A large complex with many rooms, built for worship by the Anasazi.
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Of course there was a Great House at Allington. How otherwise should there have been a Small House?
Lars Porsena of Closium By the Nine Gods he swore That the great house of Tarquin Should suffer wrong no more. By the Nine Gods he swore it, And named a trysting day, And bade his messengers ride forth, East and west and south and north, To summon his array.
Fall'n the great house once so secure in wealth, Each scattered member shifting for himself.
None of my actions have ever sort of been motored by the search for a husband or wondering if I was going to have a family someday or wanting to live in a really great house or thinking it would be really great to have a diamond.
The doorstep of a great house is slippery.
A single beam cannot support a great house.