1.   Soon the neat stores were replaced by faded brownstones and tumbledown colonial houses.

2.   ...the flower-filled courtyard of an old Spanish colonial house.

3.   Bibb and Yamashita live in a colonial house in Mendham, N.J., in Morris County, but like to keep a second place in the city.

4.   A pretty woman in a white hoop dress glides along the cobblestones, pausing in the shade of the pastel-colored colonial houses.

5.   He made enough money to buy the bottom floor of the old colonial house that Biggs now inhabits with Michael and a Rottweiler named Blitz.

6.   He was a bit goofy, never seemed to have a job and was always puttering around the two-story Colonial house.

7.   If that austere colonial house is the Vermeer of holiday decoration, this is the Leroy Neiman.

8.   Of three museums I visited, two were in colonial houses.

9.   On Friday night, the white Dutch colonial house Stern and his family moved into about six years ago was shut against the outside world.

10.   Other late Colonial houses may be larger or more ornate, but none, I think, is more perfect.