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modest house

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meanings of modestand house


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modest
adjective
uk /ˈmɒd.ɪst/ us /ˈmɑː.dɪst/
not large in size or amount, or ...
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house
noun
uk /haʊs/ us /haʊs/
a building that people, usually one family, ...
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Again, those powers can operate not only against large landowners and great corporations, but against the modesthouse holder and the ordinary citizen.
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They hold their quota by purchase, and they have no fixed costs other than the modest cost of a modest existence in a modesthouse.
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They may have a modest car and a modesthouse.
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The story is of a modesthouse, old, but standing in a certain area of ground.
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Today a million pounds may not be enough to endow quite a modesthouse.
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Even in the most modesthouse they pay tremendous attention to this.
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He would have to find £200 to go ahead and build his modesthouse.
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What he got for his modesthouse provided a magnificent house in the north-west.
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It is an awesome, terrifying experience to have 50 people camped outside one's modesthouse in a small village.
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This was deliberately designed to help the person whose capital possession, possibly his sole capital possession, is a modesthouse.
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A constituent of mine was offered the modesthouse in which he lived as a tenant at a price £1,000 below the market value.
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I bought a comparatively modesthouse at a time when prices and interest rates were low.
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He lives in a modesthouse not far from here.
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The cost of even a modesthouse now is six times that salary.
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It is easy to make the transition from a modesthouse to a splendid house, but it is much more difficult to move the other way.
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It arose because people who want a modesthouse extension or their loft converted should not have to wait months and months for local planning officials to clear their application.
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The modesthouse in which he lived is still preserved, and can be visited.
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Death came in the same modesthouse in which he had lived since 1854, when he was seven years of age.
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All they can afford is a modesthouse where a bookie operation seems to be sharing a telephone line.
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It replaced a modesthouse with timber framing and a straw roof dating from the 17th century.
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