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Definition of Houseboats
1. houseboat [n] - See also: houseboat
Lexicographical Neighbors of Houseboats
Literary usage of Houseboats
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Gently with the Tides: The Best of Living Aboard by Michael L. Frankel (1990)
"In many ways these accounts reinforce the age old message: "Do it now."
Houseboats Hannah Merker, a writer, bookseller, and editor, has spent more than ten ..."
2. The New Century First [-- ] Reader by Florence E. La Victoire, Hannah Avis Perdue (1899)
"DUTCH Houseboats. There are queer streets in the town where Emma lives. Some of
the streets are so narrow that the people on one side of the street can ..."
3. China, Ancient and Modern: A History of the Chinese Empire from the Dawn of by James Martin Miller (1900)
"... the Metropolis—Dwellers iu Houseboats— Peking, the Capital—Its History—Its
Great Walls—The Purple Forbidden City—The Temple of Heaven—Shanghai, ..."
4. A Pictorial History of the Thames by Alexis Sidney Krausse (1889)
"lined by a double row of houseboats and steam launches, and well-nigh half the
width of the river is covered with boats, punts, gondolas, canoes, ..."
5. The New Century Second Reader by Hannah Avis Perdue, Florence E. La Victoire (1899)
"DUTCH Houseboats. There are queer streets in the town where Emma lives. Some of
the streets are so narrow that the people on one side of the street can ..."
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