Only an occasional house or farm broke the monotony.

There was still an occasional house, but they were getting few and far between.

But like many architects, he still enjoys designing the occasional house.

An occasional house or barn recalls the more intimate scale of the family farm.

I could see an occasional house on my right, but the fields across the road were scruffy and dotted with boulders.

Essential to this were the occasional house calls to each other's studios.

They caught a glimpse of an occasional house, but these did not cluster into anything like a town.

The land stretched away to the horizon, broken only by the occasional house and barn.

They had lived in brush lean-tos for weeks at a time, or with only the wagon-sheet as an occasional house.

An occasional house of concrete blocks can be seen among the thatched huts.