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Meanings of bishop's house in English

Official residence of a bishop or an archbishop.

Usage of bishop's house in English
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There were, in fact, already complaints on file in the bishop's house.
The Irish Times
2
He left the bishop's house and the town dazed and stupefied.
The World's Greatest Books — Volume 05 — Fiction
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Tired out, I reached the bishop's house and sought rest.
Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Vol...
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He had planned to leave her some distance from the bishop's house, but now caution was useless.
The Mayor of Warwick
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At the bishop's house, his housekeeper, Mme.
The Ontario High School Reader
6
That night, at the bishop's house, for the first time in nineteen years, Jean Valjean had received kindness.
The World's Greatest Books — Volume 05 — Fiction
7
Near the beautiful old cathedral we passed a priest, and asked him where to find the bishop's house.
Everyman's Land
8
Here 300 were slain only in the bishop's house; and the impious monks would suffer none to be buried.
Fox's Book of Martyrs / Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, a...
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The church, the great cathedral on its terrace, the bishop's house, all dynamited, all cold and wet and filthy ruins!
A Traveller in War-Time
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The bishop's house was situated about half a mile from the college on Birdseye Avenue, the principal residence street of Warwick.
The Mayor of Warwick
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A bishop's house contained some clerks, priests, monks, and nun and was a retreat for the weary missionary and a school for the young.
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The "little castle," as it was called in Prebrunn, owned by Bernhard Trainer's family, was near the bishop's house which she occupied.
Barbara Blomberg — Volume 06
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Like one stunned by an unexpected blow, he continued his walk, until he came to Birdseye Avenue and paused in front of the bishop's house.
The Mayor of Warwick
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So he waited, and so they rode back together to Colonel Bishop's house.
Captain Blood
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The Bishop's house is pretty, and restored to the Gothic by the late Bishop.
The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 2
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Two young and familiar inmates of the Bishop's house attracted and returned his attachment.
The Sonnets, Triumphs, and Other Poems of Petrarch