Cottage

Examples

• I saw them stop near the church and speak to the sexton's wife, who had come from the cottage, and had waited, watching us from a distance. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• This woman's first husband is in that cottage. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• He took his keys down while he was talking from a hook behind the fireplace, and locked his cottage door behind us. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Still, the same quiet life went on at the little cottage, and the same cheerful serenity prevailed among its inmates. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• He begged of high and low--of the shoeless cottage brat and the coroneted duke. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• My impatience to reach the church was so great that I could not remain inactive in the cottage while the clerk lit the lantern again. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• That can't be Polly Talboys, that bouncing girl standing by her mother at the cottage there. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• For my own part, said he, I am excessively fond of a cottage; there is always so much comfort, so much elegance about them. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
• It is so delightful that you should live at the cottage! Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
• Warned of a visitor by the tinkling bell at the shop-door, Mrs Plornish came out of Happy Cottage to see who it might be. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• His way lay directly in front of the cottage. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• Side by side they were walking toward the cottage. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• My first visit would be to my sister, who inhabited a little cottage, a part of Adrian's gift, on the borders of Windsor Forest. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• I alighted at Perdita's ancient abode, her cottage; and, sending forward the carriage, determined to walk across the park to the castle. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Now, near the Palace where this Princess lived, there was a cottage in which there was a poor little tiny woman, who lived all alone by herself. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• My aunt and I were at that time vacating the two cottages at Highgate; I intending to go abroad, and she to return to her house at Dover. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• She knew how each tenant of the cottages paid or owed his little rent. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Its hills are covered with vines, and its cottages are scattered thickly in the plains. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• She thought so much about the cottages, and she was rude to Sir James sometimes; but he is so kind, he never noticed it. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• He is very kind, I think--really very good about the cottages. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• I think instead of Lazarus at the gate, we should put the pigsty cottages outside the park-gate. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• But I have been examining all the plans for cottages in Loudon's book, and picked out what seem the best things. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• She had got nothing from him more graphic about the Lowick cottages than that they were not bad. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• It was a sign of his good disposition that he did not slacken at all in his intention of carrying out Dorothea's design of the cottages. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• I find it is not so easy to be learned as to plan cottages. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• By the way, it will suit you, Dorothea; for the cottages are like a row of alms-houses--little gardens, gilly-flowers, that sort of thing. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• If I can save one of her mighty spirits from the deadly shaft; if I can ward disease from one of her smiling cottages, I shall not have lived in vain. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Who lives in these cottages? Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• There is the church and a few houses near it on the green--cottages, rather--with roses growing all over them. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• She is talking cottages and hospitals with him, said Mrs. Cadwallader, whose ears and power of interpretation were quick. George Eliot. Middlemarch.

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