The boy had been one of those gifts, brought home to the hill, stolen from his crib in the dark of the night and presented to her by dawn.
Getting themselves to the party, however, turns out to be a journey somewhat more difficult than that endured by the Greeks coming home from Troy, and the friendship of Hill and Cera, who are inseparable, almost breaks up from the strain of it.
Just then the son, who had come home from Bear Hill, asked his mother to wind up the gramophone.
In the manor home, which commands a view of the entire property from atop a hill, Plank blew out the main living room, replacing the pocket windows with ones that run nearly floor to ceiling.
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They made the plantation of Oak Hill their home after he inherited it from an uncle, and appeared on the Washington scene in 1811 when he became Madison's Secretary of State.
Every afternoon he'd launch it from a steep hill near his cliffside home in Sydney and watch, mesmerized, as it caught the updraft from the Pacific Ocean.
One of the prime movers behind the drive to get the carnival moved from its traditional west London home also dropped in to Notting Hill to see how things were going.
Green home building is projected to encompass as much as 38% of the U.S. residential market by 2016, according to a study by McGraw-Hill Construction and the National Association of Home Builders, up from 17% in 2011.
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The rise of the self-sufficient home comes amid an expansion in green homebuilding that is projected to swell to between 29% and 38% of the U.S. residential market by 2016, according to a study by McGraw-Hill Construction and the National Association of Home Builders, up from 17% in 2011.
The 27-year-old accountant from Mauritius left her Mill Hill home in north London and found that signal failures were sending all Northern Line trains along the Bank branch, through King's Cross.
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