All 7 Uses of
habitat
in
The House of the Seven Gables
- The House of the Seven Gables, antique as it now looks, was not the first habitation erected by civilized man on precisely the same spot of ground.†
Chpt 1
- It was a death that blasted with strange horror the humble name of the dweller in the cottage, and made it seem almost a religious act to drive the plough over the little area of his habitation, and obliterate his place and memory from among men.†
Chpt 1
- All, as they approached, looked upward at the imposing edifice, which was henceforth to assume its rank among the habitations of mankind.†
Chpt 1 *
- The street in which it upreared its venerable peaks has long ceased to be a fashionable quarter of the town; so that, though the old edifice was surrounded by habitations of modern date, they were mostly small, built entirely of wood, and typical of the most plodding uniformity of common life.†
Chpt 1
- Behind the house there appeared to be a garden, which undoubtedly had once been extensive, but was now infringed upon by other enclosures, or shut in by habitations and outbuildings that stood on another street.†
Chpt 1
- He had a monkey on his shoulder, dressed in a Highland plaid; and, to complete the sum of splendid attractions wherewith he presented himself to the public, there was a company of little figures, whose sphere and habitation was in the mahogany case of his organ, and whose principle of life was the music which the Italian made it his business to grind out.†
Chpt 11
- Why, therefore, should he build a more cumbrous habitation than can readily be carried off with him?†
Chpt 17
Definition:
the type of environment in which an organism or group normally lives