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Example sentences for "cookhouse"

Lexicographically close words:
cooked; cookee; cooker; cookers; cookery; cookie; cookies; cookin; cooking; cookmaid
  1. We endeavoured to get cookhouse jobs for the pickings to be had, but could not do so.

  2. The much-sought-for cookhouse jobs all went to the French, who waxed fat in consequence.

  3. Massa Tate didn't give rations to each family like lots of massas, but him have de cookhouse and de cooks, and all de rations cooked by dem and all us niggers sat down to de long tables.

  4. Dere was a cookhouse for de big house and all de cookin' for de white folks was 'tended to by four cooks.

  5. Go over to the cookhouse and the Chink'll give you something to eat.

  6. Mr. Harding summoned the two Mexicans while Bridge ran to the cookhouse and ordered the Chinaman to the ranchhouse.

  7. Down past the bunkhouse and the cookhouse to the stables the searchers made their way.

  8. But when you want to sing in this heah cookhouse I be 'bleeged if yo' fine some song what ain't got no battles in it.

  9. The Somerset East line crosses, at Cookhouse station, the Midland main line from Port Elizabeth to the north, and by this route the distance between Port Elizabeth and East London is 307 m.

  10. Thus near Cookhouse railway station it makes an almost circular bend of 20 m.

  11. It bothers not the appetites of pious Christians that their food is cooked amid contending odors and that many of the doings near the cookhouse make its condition extraordinarily unsanitary.

  12. An endless procession commences between the cookhouse and the banqueting place--boys running with great dishes which they commit to the more official servitors to pass to the guests.

  13. For the baron's feast the great fireplace in the bailey cookhouse is insufficient.

  14. The cookhouse is located here because of the danger of fire in the inner castle, and because the position is convenient for the great number of the servitors who must eat in their barracks.

  15. We saw the wagon coming and all rushed down to the cookhouse to climb up and look in the wagon.

  16. Once a day they gave each of us a cup of soup which was all that they prepared in the cookhouse at this camp.

  17. Due to the shortage of German food, the cookhouse was only used to dispense hot water for beverages and another pot for washing dishes.

  18. Before each meal I would run to the cookhouse before they ran out of hot water, and run back before it got cold.

  19. Phil ambled off to the cookhouse with the intention of offering his services in peeling potatoes to the cookee in order that he might have an excuse for keeping near the fellow.

  20. No one was stirring, and Garry was about to pound on the door when he saw the cookee coming from the cookhouse with a pail in each hand for the morning cooking water.

  21. A steel triangle hung on a tree near the cookhouse door, and when dinner was ready Jack's helper struck it sharply with an iron bar.

  22. We had stopped at the cookhouse and begged a pot of hot coffee to take to our cabins.

  23. When we were taken through the cookhouse I asked about a little Frenchman who was sitting with his nose in a soup bowl He seemed too near-sighted ever to get into any army.

  24. Inside a cookhouse at one end of the enclosure was a row of soup- boilers.

  25. At the cookhouse door stood a short, plump-bodied girl, dark-skinned and black-haired.

  26. Charlie wheedled Stella into taking up the cookhouse burden again.

  27. All about that cookhouse dooryard spread a confusion of empty tin cans, gaudily labeled, containers of corn and peas and tomatoes.

  28. It happened that when he drew in to his cookhouse float, Stella was standing in her kitchen door.

  29. The shacks were all burned, and somebody sank the cookhouse scow.

  30. He ate a late supper at the cookhouse and got back to town well after dark.

  31. He was at the cookhouse trying to sober up on coffee.

  32. She didn't appear to be ATS and I would do her no injustice if I guessed her age as being between 30 and 40, older than the rest of the cookhouse staff.

  33. The cookhouse backed on to the southern wall; it was a shed type with a corrugated iron roof and outside there were two boilers for water.

  34. I suppose it was the same bright individual who had the storm trench dug who thought of the idea of burying a pipe to carry away the cookhouse effluent down into the eastern hillside tunnel.

  35. The regular cookhouse staff came under "Jackie", Corporal Jackson and she and her girls were billeted in a private house nearly opposite Bowden Battery in a road running parallel with Fort Austin Avenue.

  36. Drinking water supplied to the cooks was brought in daily in the evening in a two wheeled trailer that was then parked adjacent to the cookhouse ready for their early morning chores.

  37. The cookhouse people have removed their cocoa urn.

  38. Immediately in front of the cookhouse and the mule was one of these cesspools, our billets here being on a farm.

  39. The driver agreed and a few days later he and his helper appeared at the door of the cookhouse with one of the mules to get his feed.

  40. With the help of another soldier, we carried him to the rear of the cookhouse and covered him with a blanket.

  41. The cookhouse had formerly been a French dressing station, dismantled by the fire of those devils that know no law of God or man, composed of three huts in a row made of half-inch board.

  42. The cookhouse here was in the house of a farmer who had vacated, and as the smoke coming from the chimney got thicker every moment, I was apprehensive lest Fritz would see it and send over a shell message, but Scotty pooh-poohed the idea.

  43. The shells were commencing to pop all around and I knew instantly that Fritz had located the cookhouse instead of the battery, and I roared to Scotty to come out, but he wouldn't budge.

  44. Scotty but that the cookhouse had been hit by a shell.

  45. Grant, go down and see if that Scotch cook has fallen in the soup; find out if cookhouse is ready.

  46. But Scotty would shut them with the authority of an old soldier and, besides, in his cookhouse he was monarch of all he surveyed.

  47. The basement of our house was only a cookhouse and a stairway that led up to the landing on the first floor, and up another flight to the Russian officers.

  48. Another round from a cold gun landed into the cookhouse of the 76th Punjabis.

  49. No one was there, but the cookhouse was not improved.

  50. Behind the cookhouse a bed of poppies flamed scarlet against the general sombreness, and gave a strange touch of colour to the common grayness.

  51. The cookhouse roof had been blown off and placed over the poppies, where it had sheltered them from every hailstone.

  52. She turned around the cookhouse where the poppies stood straight and strong against the glowing sky.

  53. Why, twenty-five dollars would cover the whole loss, cookhouse roof and all.

  54. Somebody yelled, and I ran out of the cookhouse where I sat eating breakfast.

  55. Barreau and I ate in the big cookhouse with the rest of the men.

  56. We left the cookhouse without referring to this again.

  57. A beautiful cookhouse was dug at Lyle's Post, partly to conceal the fire and partly to give the cooks shelter from the daily heat.

  58. After much vain fishing with bivouac sticks, the degtchies were rescued, but it was only after several hours' drain-digging that the cookhouse was cleared of water and the bacon discovered in a far corner.

  59. He gave himself a cold rubdown, jumped into his new clothes, and ran to the cookhouse for a hearty meal.

  60. His gaze followed the bridge-service track past the cookhouse and bunkhouse and the storehouses, out across the completed shore span to the gigantic structure of the south cantilever.

  61. As Harris threw open the gates of the big corral he saw her standing in the door of the cookhouse watching the oncoming drove.

  62. The chuck wagon was wheeled before the cookhouse door and packed for an early start.

  63. A raucous bellow sounded from the cookhouse and every man within earshot rose and moved toward the summons to feed.

  64. He walked through the cookhouse and opened the door of the girl's quarters without the formality of a knock, as if a frequent visitor and sure of his privileges.

  65. Better get over to the cookhouse and fill up.

  66. Chapter Twelve War Declared Dawn had broken over the crests of the Cajons and smoke was curling above the cookhouse when Slim rode down on the Box B.

  67. Chuck left the cookhouse and Slim was alone with the Chinese cook.

  68. That night at chow, Allen glanced along the long table in the cookhouse at the score of punchers present.

  69. He sighed with relief when he saw the diminutive outlaw trooping toward the cookhouse with the other riders to answer the supper call.

  70. As Allen stepped out of the cookhouse after breakfast that morning, his face was swathed in a flannel bandage.


  71. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cookhouse" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.