houses
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Convent boarding houses are affordable and clean, but there are rules: curfews, chores and sometimes nuns who vet boyfriends.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 11, 2026
Brad Lander, then serving as New York's fiscal watchdog, was accused of obstructing an elevator at a building that houses one of the city's immigration courts.
From Barron's • Jun. 11, 2026
More than 100 people gathered at row of houses near the Ulster University campus in Coleraine, County Londonderry.
From BBC • Jun. 10, 2026
“There weren’t any other houses that had anything like that,” she says.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 10, 2026
The church, the rectory, a row of houses; and in back of the hotel, someone emptied a pail of dirty water.
From "Nory Ryan’s Song" by Patricia Reilly Giff
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