How To Use Mews In A Sentence
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The same agents sold a three-bedroom mews, Beiginish on Stable Lane in Monkstown, following its withdrawal from auction at €650,000.
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This place was afterwards enlarged, and converted into stables for horses; but the old name remained, and now most stables in London are called mews, although the word is derived from falconry, and the hawks have long since flown away.
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Your cat mews and sometimes growls or "spits," and often purrs, especially when you tickle her ears.
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The entrance to the mews or garden flat is from the lane behind the main house, and it has the appearance of a country cottage.
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We needed more space and the mews house next door became available, so we bought that and extended into it.
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It's in a former mews street, half of which is being demolished - and where the other new infill buildings are absolute rubbish.
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Cud du a naice balay tu almos ne kined ub Ravel mewsik.
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The term is normally associated with bachelor pads, futuristic penthouses and plate-glass-and-steel mews dwellings.
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Nearly 40 new homes will be incorporated into a modern development consisting of semi-detached houses, mews houses and bungalows.
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A meadow-pipit tsip-tsips from rock to rock while a buzzard mounts thermals on still wings and mews down at us.
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Bobby hoisted his one-year-old son, Aidan, into a backpack and went to transfer two pet hawks from their outdoor weathering perch to an indoor mews.
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Nearly 40 new homes will be incorporated into a modern development consisting of semi-detached houses, mews houses and bungalows.
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We are sitting in his office in a mews house in West London.
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Upside: The modern mews house is perfect for staff or letting to tenants.
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A pretty mews house with two bedrooms is about 300,000.
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This small, neatly shuttered mews house looked uninhabited.
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We put in an offer for two of the mews buildings and it was accepted.
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Jeffries watched him go down the street to the mews before stepping back and slowly closing the door.
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A coach house at the end of the garden has vehicular access to a laneway and has obvious potential for conversion to a mews, subject to planning permission.
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There is a summer mews in need of some tender loving care, and a large cement sunken area which could accommodate a fantastic water feature or even a swimming pool.
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She claimed her week of vacation time but went to the Center anyway and spent her days sitting in the mews and outside in the weathering areas, listening for anything that Spike had to say.
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From the outside it looks like a classic small Victorian mews house, but once inside it opens out into a contemporary space.
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With three bedrooms, two receptions rooms and extensive use of timber flooring, the mews is in good order throughout.
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This quaint cottage-style mews extends to 85 square metres, including a living room, dining room, three bedrooms and a bathroom.
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Their little house sat secret and smug as a tomb, and the arched entrance to the mews was a black yawn beside it.
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There is also space to the rear which could be developed to provide a mews, subject to planning permission.
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Last week the mews house in Knightsbridge appeared empty.
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But an architect friend offered me premises in Portland Mews, funnily enough just around the corner from our new gallery.
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This small, neatly shuttered mews house looked uninhabited.
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They call this type of house a mews and they are highly sought after.
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The mews house served as the background because of the eternal link between such locations and clandestine activities.
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‘Had all the horses in the mews in a powerful fret,’ said Robert as he saddled his master's horse.
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This is a unique cut-stone mews where no expense has been spared on the high-tech features and striking interior decor.
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The first light of dawn found Joe in Lucy's basement room at the mews cottage.
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It was quieter here, and more orderly, with falcon mews and kennels for the Baron's hunting dogs ranged against the wall.
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Have you so quickly forgotten those boys at the mews, of not enough years even for hairs to bespeckle their chins?
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Ai R going to Corsica in Joon, furr a 3-week mewsik kamp.
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LIVING in a dinky little London mews house is a pretty universal fantasy.
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The building comprised almost 266 square metres of net lettable space along with a full yard which provided car parking and a two-bedroom mews to the rear.
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You need 3 million for a mews house in this neighbourhood.
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The houses would nestle on the comfortable laneway that has been signed for many years as Sussex Mews.
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A two-storey mews at the rear of the building fronts onto Laverty Court providing access to the car park.
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The word mews dates back to Henry VIII's hawks, which were "mewed", or caged.
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she lives in a Chelsea mews
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Two hundred years later, bluff King Hal would turn out the hawks to make room for his horses; but as yet the word mews had its proper signification of a place where hawks were mewed or confined.
The White Lady of Hazelwood A Tale of the Fourteenth Century
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Their mews were the loudest sound in the street at that moment, as there was little traffic, and the city was unusually quiet.
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She lives in a mews house at the bottom of the garden.
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If a moiety of sweeping the kennel from the Mews-gate to the Irish coffee-house opposite to it, could fetch a good price, and I was a witness once that it did, to an unfortunate beggar-woman, who was obliged by sickness to part with half of it; what might not a beggar expect, who had the _sweeping_ of the _Pont du Gard_; or a monk, who erected a confessional box near it for the benefit of _himself_, and the fouls of poor travellers?
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This small, neatly shuttered mews house looked uninhabited.
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chack" two or three times repeated, then subdued barks like those of a distressed puppy, followed by hoarse "mews" and other sounds suggesting almost any creature rather than one in feathers.
A Bird-Lover in the West
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A two-storey mews at the rear of the building fronts onto Laverty Court providing access to the car park.
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The basement and mews are occupied and are producing an annual income of €34,300.
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Owners can drive into the garage of their mews property, take a pleasant stroll through their garden and enter the main home with zero paparazzi camped outside.
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Originally a single-storey mews house, the property has been extensively enlarged with the basement dug out and three floors added to the ground floor.
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The mews house served as the background because of the eternal link between such locations and clandestine activities.
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In the adjoining mews, living accommodation includes a lounge/dining room, kitchen cum breakfast room, two bedrooms and a bathroom.
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And with this disconsolate reflection, he wended his way to the bartizan or battlements of the tower, to watch what objects might appear on the distant moor, or to pelt, with pebbles and pieces of lime, the sea-mews and cormorants which established themselves incautiously within the reach of an idle young man.
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In addition to three reception rooms and four bedrooms, it boasts a self-contained granny flat, a two-story mews and extensive parking for six cars.
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The three sawbill ducks - smews, goosanders and red-breasted mergansers - have been spreading through the country on large lakes and reservoirs.
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THE buyers of a two-storey mews house on sale for 35m could make tens of millions of pounds by knocking it down and rebuilding.
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Pennant says that the royal stables in London were called mews from the fact that the buildings were formerly used for keeping the king's falcons.
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Forth from the frigid mews come easily swinging carriages guided by short – legged coachmen in flaxen wigs, deep sunk into downy hammercloths, and up behind mount luscious Mercuries bearing sticks of state and wearing cocked hats broadwise, a spectacle for the angels.
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But an architect friend offered me premises in Portland Mews, funnily enough just around the corner from our new gallery.
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The 419 square metre property includes a mews to the rear and parking for 11 cars.
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Bobby hoisted his one-year-old son, Aidan, into a backpack and went to transfer two pet hawks from their outdoor weathering perch to an indoor mews.
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It's called a mews rather than a laneway by the city, probably because it feels a lot more like a narrow street than an alley.
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Someone, in the cloistered mews where Aston Martins are built, came up with some rather novel marketing ideas.
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We needed more space and the mews house next door became available, so we bought that and extended into it.
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I managed to communicate to her what I had discovered through a series of mimes, mews and whisker movements.
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In winter, small numbers of Smews visit Britain and Ireland, mostly on large lakes, reservoirs and estuaries in East Anglia and south-east England.
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Subject to planning permission this has obvious potential for conversion to a mews and a number of neighbouring properties have carried out this conversion.
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When we heard the great mews, we couldn ＇ t help cheering and dancing.
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It was inevitable that a mock version of London property's most wanted house type - the mews - made its way to Malahide.
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Today's historic rehearsal saw two Ascot landaus and nine horses, based at the Royal Mews, Buckingham Palace, gently wind their way down six furlongs.
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Pitched under the shade of some wide-spreading mangoes are a variety of tents of all sizes, from the handsome and spacious marquee to the snug sleeping tent; near them are picqueted a number of fine-looking Arab horses in prime condition, while the large barouche, which is standing close by, might have just emerged from a coach-house in a London mews; a few servants are loitering about, and give life to this otherwise tranquil scene.
A Journey to Katmandu (the Capital of Napaul), with The Camp of Jung Bahadoor; including A Sketch of the Nepaulese Ambassador at Home
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This sits on the roof of a mews house behind the property, in yet another example of Grosvenor flair.
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LIVING in a dinky little London mews house is a pretty universal fantasy.
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It's next to a canal in a little cottagey mewsy type road (called a Parade: -)), and it's all pretty and leafy (although my mumsy wisely pointed out that it's probably leafy because it's autumn.
The One With 9 Days To Go
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The house has a library, a sizeable garden and a tunnel linking it to a mews house.
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With a planning precedent already set for such buildings on Iona Drive, the selling agent sees no real obstacles to converting the mews into contemporary living space either for rent or sale.
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I am living over a mews -- over a _mews_ with twelve pounds and a few shillings, and then _nothing_ -- nothing at all.
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At that point they cut him off financially, although they allowed him to live at home in their mews house in west London.
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The critic Christopher Ricks has pointed out that "mew" rather than the more correct "mews" is in fact an archaic word for "cage.
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From the outside it looks like a classic small Victorian mews house, but once inside it opens out into a contemporary space.
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What was more, my lord's coachman caught it up, and he called her countess, and he had a quarrel about it with the footman Kendall; and the day after a dreadful affair between them in the mews, home drives madam, and Kendall is to go up to her, and down the poor man comes, and not a word to be got out of him, but as if he had seen a ghost.
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Dating from the early 1980s, this semi-detached four-bedroom mews is 130 square metres in area.
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One was the main road that went through town, the second, across, went through to the office buildings and apartments, and the third to a couple mews of town houses.
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The option to purchase a mews house is an additional bonus and the price represents good value in today's market.
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Not only are mews homes getting bigger, they are getting lighter.
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Yu are uneek and irreplaysable and I hail yu wif a skirl of bagpipe mewsik!
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The property was actually two mews houses knocked together.
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Upside: The modern mews house is perfect for staff or letting to tenants.
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The property was actually two mews houses knocked together.
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The stables, too, were formerly filled with horses -- and very fine ones they were -- whereas now the number is greatly reduced, and many of those in the royal mews are "jobbed" -- _i. e._ hired by the week or month, as occasion requires, from livery stables.
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THE buyers of a two-storey mews house on sale for 35m could make tens of millions of pounds by knocking it down and rebuilding.
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Falling over themselves to focus on Inigo Jones's church and piazza at Covent Garden, historians of Stuart London have overlooked the city's first mews (now Floral Street).
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‘The Royal Mews is planning to take four Ascot landaus, 24 grey horses and all the necessary staff north,’ said Mr Wilkie.
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An architect designed mews on Upper George's Avenue in Blackrock is now on the market through HOK Residential.
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UPSIDE It's light for a mews house.
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It also includes the four-storey townhouses, basements, yards and mews.
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The first light of dawn found Joe in Lucy's basement room at the mews cottage.
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Set amid a cobbled row of upmarket mews flats, he has made the most of a vacant site to create a pair of light, spacious executive homes that blend with their historic surroundings.
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A strong selling point will be a 28 square metre stone outhouse with floored loft - this could be converted to a large garage or possibly a self-contained mews or granny flat, subject to planning permission.
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There is a summer mews in need of some tender loving care, and a large cement sunken area which could accommodate a fantastic water feature or even a swimming pool.
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Smews can now be found on large unfrozen lakes, and sometimes on rivers, in many parts of the country.
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Ai rote sumthin shorl an, ai hoep mildlee amewsing – did mai best – but Jack rote a whole four part haiku – difference ov less tahn a minute.
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The principal change from the first phase is the inclusion of a downstairs bedroom and the decision to remove the mews in favour of a sun lounge.
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Plans to convert the rundown cobbled mews behind the market in Hildreth Street into commercial space and new homes from November were lodged last month.
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The title is certainly a fair description of the 15x15 sq ft bijou premises in Stable Mews, in Leigh.
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We are given a wonderful account of visits to Attu, the desolate, westernmost of the Aleutian Islands - and holy grail of birders - to see smews, pochards, and stragglers blowing in from Siberia.
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The Golden Age seems akin to the city it so lovingly unfurls - uncertain of itself, elegant in parts and convoluted in others, but with no wynd or mews that does not conceal some ingenuity.
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The mews were the buildings where the hawks were kept when moulting, the word "mew" being a term used by falconers to signify to moult, or cast feathers; and the King's Mews, near Charing Cross, was the place where the royal hawks were kept.
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Other more recent projects by Gwathmey Siegel, which employs 25 architects, include the 22-story United States Mission to the United Nations; the Setai Fifth Avenue, which is opening next month; and a multistory residential project, Soho Mews.
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His bird lives in a large cage he built called a mews and all aspects of the life of each bird, including capture, care and training, must be reported to state and federal agencies.
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It's not a typical mews house at all.
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This offers the potential for developing an extension or even building a three-bedroom mews, subject to planning permission.