7 sentences with 'houses'
Example sentences and phrases with the word houses and other words derived from it.
• « Essentially, the major orders came to resemble armed merchant houses as much as monasteries, and there is no doubt that many of their members did very poor work in fulfilling their vows of poverty, obedience and chastity. Similarly, the rulers of the Latin Principalities made little effort to win over their Muslim and Jewish subjects. »
• « Feudal lords, i.e. land-owning nobles, lived in "manors", a term that designated not only their royal houses but also the land they owned. All the peasants on their lands owed them rent, originally in the form of crops but eventually in cash, as well as a certain amount of labour each year. »
• « Soldiers and knights enlisted in the service of rival noble houses, which eventually fuelled a conflict within the royal family between two different branches, the Lancastrians and the Yorks. The result was a violent conflict over the crown called the War of the Roses, which lasted from 1455 to 1485. »
• « In 1635 the French entered the war on the Protestant side. At this point, the war turned from a religious conflict into a dynastic struggle between the two largest royal houses in Europe: the Bourbons of France and the Habsburgs of Austria. »
• « By the mid-18th century, British power in India was limited to its factories, which served as clearing houses for trade with Indian merchants. »
• « The streets are clean, orderly, well-lit, and (unlike the Paris of his time) the houses are numbered. »