Our grandparents lived in cold, drafty houses and survived.
"Your mother has plenty of room in her drafty old house."
It was a battered gray with white trim, a big, drafty three-story house.
And both children got pneumonia from the drafty house.
My great, drafty house in Richmond could be reduced to a single Room, I realized.
The terrible wind in that drafty house has indeed invaded the clocks, affecting the mechanisms and literally distorting time.
They build drafty houses on the hill where the wind is fierce.
It's such a drafty old house, rust red, a hundred years old, with three stories.
Whether you have a McMansion or, like me, a drafty older house, chances are you're paying a lot more to heat it lately.
"No doubt a meager existence in a drafty house will not do her well with the cold winter approaching."
