Cottages

Examples

• 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.
• But surely there were beams still left in the dismantled cottages near the church? Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• I do not like ruined, tattered cottages. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
• There shall be cottages in the dark ravine, and cottages on the lonely slopes. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• I can line yonder barren Hollow with lines of cottages and rows of cottage-gardens---- Robert! Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• The rotation of crops, said Mrs. Garth, smiling at him, above her knitting, or else the back-doors of the Tipton cottages. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• I can have no more to do with the cottages. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• And you are going to engage Mr. Garth, who praised my cottages, Sir James says. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• There is a church there, you see, a few cottages, and an inn. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• Those cottages are really a disgrace. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• I have never agreed with him about anything but the cottages: I was barely polite to him before. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• The vegetables in the gardens, the milk and cheese that I saw placed at the windows of some of the cottages, allured my appetite. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• No, uncle, said Celia, we have been to Freshitt to look at the cottages. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• And, moreover, you need not for a moment to insinuate that the virtues have taken refuge in cottages and wholly abandoned slated houses. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• He has gone on with the cottages, Dodo. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Life in cottages might be happier than ours, if they were real houses fit for human beings from whom we expect duties and affections. George Eliot. Middlemarch.

Editor: Rufus