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Example sentences for "cottage"

Lexicographically close words:
cotinga; coto; cots; cott; cotta; cottager; cottagers; cottages; cottar; cottars
  1. But I dunno whether 'Ome Cottage is quite the thing like.

  2. I don't see 'ow you can call it a cottage with more bedrooms than four.

  3. The breeze from the embalmèd land Blows sudden toward the shore, And claps my cottage door.

  4. The Cottage of honest Jack, the shipwrecked Sailor.

  5. When out of sight of the cottage he quickened his step.

  6. A cottage organ stood in one corner, and a round, marble-topped table in the centre of the room held a lamp and a plush-covered album.

  7. Miss Betsey is shut up in her cottage by the sea, no doubt, and will remain there.

  8. In this state, I went into a cottage that I saw was to let, and examined it narrowly,--for I felt it necessary to be practical.

  9. We have removed, from Buckingham Street, to a pleasant little cottage very near the one I looked at, when my enthusiasm first came on.

  10. He made the cottage smaller than it need have been, by being so very much out of proportion to it.

  11. They carried him through the wild roar, a hush in the midst of all the tumult; and took him to the cottage where Death was already.

  12. Mrs. Markleham was a regular inmate of the cottage then; but she talked and talked, and saw nothing.

  13. Miss Mills replied, on general principles, that the Cottage of content was better than the Palace of cold splendour, and that where love was, all was.

  14. This obliged me to run after her, and she ran so fast that we were very near the cottage before I caught her.

  15. The other surmounted the hill just above the cottage of the late John Steel, called Three Mile Cottage, at the termination of the Blue Bell Road, near the present Three Mile Church.

  16. The street was cut down about 50 years since and a story or breast work was erected on the street under this little old cottage which may yet be seen projecting from the main building, presenting the appearance of a balcony.

  17. In the meantime," said Arthur, "in case by any unfortunate accident your ship should fail to arrive in time to enable us to get the cottage up before the rains set in, I propose that we commence a less ambitious structure.

  18. The two listeners dared not stir, for the least movement would have betrayed them to those below, and before many minutes had elapsed they felt certain that the present invaders of the cottage were strangers.

  19. As soon as it's daylight I must find a cottage and try to make the people understand what's the matter, and get them to help me to carry poor Punch into shelter.

  20. Then there must be another cottage somewhere in that direction, and I am going to hope that she will come back soon with something to eat.

  21. A young man was lying back in the chair, and Florence stood staring in much curiosity as the boy led the pony up to the cottage and Mrs Warren came out curtseying.

  22. Ronald remained all day there, and, indeed, did not leave the cottage until it was very late.

  23. She had to get back to the cottage in time for the mid-day dinner, and she sate at table there, pale and silent, and with a consciousness as of guilt weighing upon her.

  24. Kate found, as she struggled along, that she was by no means so strong as she used to be when she had lived in the cottage at home.

  25. It is warm in winter and cool in summer, and I have known labourers bitterly bewail their fate in being transferred from an old fifteenth or sixteenth century cob cottage into a newly-built stone edifice of the most approved style.

  26. These fortnightly cottage entertainments became a recognised institution and a source of profit, besides serving as a means of interesting and occupying the pupils.

  27. A worthy woman, scrupulously neat in her person, and who kept her cottage in beautiful order.

  28. Adjoining the widow's cottage was another untenanted, like it consisting of a single apartment on the ground floor.

  29. I saw another great library, as I may call it, that was preserved in the rack in the ceiling of a cottage at Sheepstor, the property of an old fiddler, now dead.

  30. An old woman named Borlase had a cottage with a window looking towards Plymouth, and she kept her eye on the water.

  31. Formerly there were in Tiverton parish eighteen chapels, of which the only remains are found in a cottage at Mere, and a restored chapel at Cove.

  32. A cottage of that kind in a village would not be above L6 a year, and L20 spent on materials for fancy-works would set us up.

  33. I may revive it and have it all to myself; perhaps the cottage itself may be easily hired.

  34. So we would both work, and have a little cottage and a garden, that we could take care of, and sell the herbs and vegetables.

  35. Sophy overslept herself: her room was to the west; the morning beams did not reach its windows; and the cottage without children woke up to labour noiseless and still.

  36. Meanwhile the Mayor came out from the cottage porch, his wife leaning on his arm, and two of his younger children bounding on before, with joyous faces, giving chase to a gaudy butterfly which they had started from the woodbine.

  37. So think over the cottage and the basket-work, and practise at samplers and pincushions, when it is too hot to play; and be stout and strong against I come back.

  38. I think we have made up our mind," said Lopez, "to take a cottage at Dovercourt.

  39. Ernest Mowbray stood for a moment on the porch of the cottage following the receding vehicle with his eyes.

  40. Miss Georgiana lived with her mother--a little old lady in Quaker dress--in a small cottage back from the street-line.

  41. I couldn't ask poor Mr. Murphy for money," said Ruth, giving an anxious glance at the little cottage over the fence.

  42. Fortunately they were all in the neighborhood, but he had a stiff fight to get through the storm to the cobbler's little cottage before midnight.

  43. And to the cobbler's little cottage she immediately made her way.

  44. She wants to know if I'll take care of her summer cottage till the spring comes.

  45. This cottage had a thatched roof, and was surrounded by a plain fence.

  46. There was a field not far from his mother's cottage where a flock of sheep were often kept.

  47. He visited the cottage where he was born.

  48. Orrin's mother was very fond of flowers, and the little yard in front of the cottage was filled with many beautiful plants and shrubs; some of them were trained up about the upper window and around the door.

  49. Illustration] The cottage where Orrin Pierce was born stood by the side of a clear bright stream not far from the sea-shore.

  50. The living room of JOHN ABUD'S new cottage has bare plaster walls and its ceilings and floor are of red brick; all fresh looking but not new.

  51. The fourth act takes place one day in the following winter; the first scene in the hall at Markswayde, the second scene in a cottage some ten miles off.

  52. Scarcely had they cleared the threshold, when the roof fell in, and the cottage was in ruins.

  53. On the night which followed Lucy's departure the cottage seemed singularly lonely.

  54. On its height the church looked down in its holy stillness, and between both lay the picturesque thatched cottage belonging to Mrs. Lesly.

  55. Nothing secures obedience to a command so much as the decision and coolness with which it is given; and all were soon engaged in pulling down, at his suggestion, the cottage which lay nearest to those already burning.

  56. Mr. Ware could not but enter the cottage with the consciousness that he was not particularly welcome; yet this did not render his visits less frequent.

  57. On his return to England, he, with his wife and child, settled in his native county--and fixed on this cottage for his residence.

  58. And he turned his eyes towards the fire, and pointed to his own cottage which was smouldering in ruins.

  59. Mr. Ware offered him a little more advice as to exerting himself, and then, with a small gratuity to his wife, left the cottage with his nephew.

  60. At the front gate of the cottage he found Arthur Bervie in conversation with the same shabbily-dressed man-servant who had announced the Captain's visit to Charlotte.

  61. On the next morning, a letter, addressed to Mrs. Bowmore, was delivered at the cottage by private messenger.

  62. I told you when we met just now at Mr. Bowmore's cottage that I had something to say to you; and I have not yet said it.

  63. During Percy's absence, Mr. Bowmore secured the front and back entrances to the cottage with his own hands.

  64. Mrs. Bowmore re-entered the cottage by the adjoining room, and met them in the passage.

  65. We carried him to the gamekeeper's cottage on the outskirts of the woods, and on the side of it nearest to our village.

  66. I have looked about to see what I could do among my friends, and what inducement I could offer you to come; which is very little indeed beyond a warm welcome to our little cottage and hearts.

  67. There were often so much knocking and other sounds about that cottage that I believed it, like the others, to be haunted.

  68. I immediately communicated with my friends, who rallied in large numbers, and before the week was out, we were all settled in a pleasant little cottage on Troup Street.

  69. I will myself visit this cottage instantly.

  70. What an unsocial spirit must the fair mistress of this cottage possess.

  71. The outside of a cottage in the wood; a light burning in a casement.

  72. Shall I enter the cottage and wait her return?

  73. The elector appears at night passing in disguise to visit the cottage of Storm, and is encountered by Rosenberg, who appears in the most wretched state, flying from his pursuers, and supplicates him for the means to procure shelter.


  74. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cottage" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    blockhouse; box; cabin; camp; cot; cottage; fanfare; hut; lodge; outside; shack; shanty; snuggery