11.   The very houses seemed disposed to pack up and take trips.

12.   There was a terrifying crash, and the house seemed to shake.

13.   With Cranston bouncing along the Nightingale Gallery, the whole house seemed to sing with noise.

14.   With Omar gone, the house seemed to coil up in a paroxysm of eerie energy.

15.   The house seemed muted, hushed as if it had been deserted.

16.   The empty house seemed so lonesome.

17.   The house seems overcrowded, he said, but you must make your own mind up about that.

18.   The house seemed very quiet and she suddenly realised she was entirely alone.

19.   Indeed the whole house seemed full of small creaks and sighs, and mouse-like rustlings.

20.   The stone-built house seemed to treble the sound.