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houses



NOUN
business establishment
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NOUN
government body, sometimes elected, responsible for laws
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Take a stroll along the high street in Broughty Ferry and you are spoiled for choice when it comes to cafes, clothes shops and curry houses.

From BBC • Jun. 11, 2026

Brontë subjects her characters to the competing influences of the two houses; those who venture too close to the Heights—such as Catherine’s daughter, years later—get sucked into the abject darkness within.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 10, 2026

She said around seven patients were impacted and had nowhere to go after their discharge, because their houses had burned down.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 10, 2026

“Wuthering Heights” looks just as the voracious reader imagines it as they tear through the novel: drafty houses, windy moors, color and texture that bound from the screen.

From Salon • Jun. 10, 2026

Most of the houses, gray stone taken from the mountain itself, were clustered at the foot of the largest hill.

From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell



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