house-broken

adjective

A bitter thing, to have the windows of her house broken, and be pointed at by the boys in the street.

He was shocked to hear speech of Leader of House broken in upon with noisy cries of "Question!"

People can no more choose their neighbors in a house broken up into sets of chambers, than they can choose them in the street.

About the same time, A advertises that he'll trade one house-broken concertina for a nice overcoat.

"The Wilkinsons over at Todfoot have had their house broken into now," Mrs. Brown was saying.

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