Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
log house , under log, adjective
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Examples
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When she returned to the North to dwell in her grand log-house, John Thompson found that the P.C. Company could make a shift somehow to carry on its business without his aid.
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Jees Uck laughed in his face and went back to her grand log-house.
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After that she returned to her grand log-house and gathered about her the young girls of the Toyaat village, to show them the way of their feet in the world.
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Jees Uck moved into her grand log-house and dreamed away three golden summer months.
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This was a comfortable log-house of good size, built by the Indians for a school and church, and attached to one end was the log-cabin residence of the priest.
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It sounds far-fetched, but I became a log-house builder, figuring I?
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Towered over by the glacier-sculpted peaks of the San Christoval Mountains, and home to beautifully carved totem poles and old log-house villages amidst massive old pines, this pristine wilderness is only accessible by boat or float plane.
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We encamped near a solitary log-house, for the sake of its water, and dined upon the plain.
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Sometimes the ground is only just now cleared: the felled trees lying yet upon the soil: and the log-house only this morning begun.
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Not everyone could afford such a house; there were settlements where log-house dwellers were considered “tony,” while their more democratic neighbors existed in dugouts and tents.
THE AMERICAN WEST DEE BROWN 2007
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