Lexicographical Neighbors of Housefront
Literary usage of Housefront
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Europe Revised by Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb (1914)
"And the rutty paving stones which stretch from housefront to housefront are
crawling with people and goats and dogs and children. ..."
2. Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan by Asiatic Society of Japan (1902)
"... inch from one housefront, a foot from another and six feet from a third and
so on, be taken off, -Asking the reason I was told that Tsushima no Kami had ..."
3. Stained Glass Tours in France by Charles Hitchcock Sherrill (1908)
"... and the ancient carved wood housefront transported from its original site,
affixed to another dwelling and dubbed the House of Diane de Poitiers. ..."
4. The Writings of Lafcadio Hearn by Lafcadio Hearn (1922)
"Upon a housefront the color must appear monstrous, because giving the notion of
the unnatural — of a huge blue dead solidity tangibly proximate. ..."
5. The Jig of Forslin: A Symphony by Conrad Aiken (1916)
"... A ladder is raised, up it a fireman crawls; And suddenly with a roar the ladder
falls With the falling housefront into a storm of fire, ..."
6. Individualism: A System of Politics by Wordsworth Donisthorpe (1894)
"Any one with eyesight can paint a housefront or a deal box, but only a Millais
the portrait of Gladstone in the Academy Exhibition of 1879. ..."
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