He saw a long line of white villas, white with biscuit-coloured balconies and green jalousies, rising amid gardens of laurel and palm; he saw white yachts rocking at anchor, and illuminated houseboats in the shadow of a great breakwater.
"Command"
William McFee
After all, people on houseboats had to land once in a while, for shopping.
"The Electronic Mind Reader"
John Blaine
Close up against this bund, and extending down the river bank for at least two miles are ranged row on row of houseboats.
"The Critic in the Orient"
George Hamlin Fitch