From adjoining cottages could be heard the chatter and laughter of children's voices.
To tear down the old, decaying buildings, to clear the ground of rubbish and lay off straight, square lots and build comfortable cottages was no small task; but all this was accomplished while the new factory was building.
From the rows of neat cottageson the Flat came the scent of perfume-laden flowers.
The smoke from the little cluster of cottages crept upwards, straight as a ruled line.
The very smoke from those red-tiled cottages went straight to Heaven, unruffled by even the faintest of breezes.
To-day there are two catbirds, Elle et Lui, and the first Johnny Wren is inspecting the particular row of cottagesthat top the long screen of honeysuckles back of the walk named by Richard Wren Street.
Our narrative now passes to the house of Poll Doolin, which was situated in a row of cottages towards the north side of Castle Cumber.
On my right were the plantations of Mr Ketts, overshading the road, and for which numerous cottages had been sacrificed; on my left, cottages enclosed in gardens.
They turned up a lane behind a few small and rather dirty cottages facing the sea, each with its patch of kitchen garden behind.
She screamed, and people came from othercottages and looked on.
Pine-trees feathered the less abrupt steeps, with patches of dazzling turf here and there; and wherever a gentler slope could be found in the coves, stood cottages surrounded by potato-fields and ripe barley stacked on poles.
Before us extended a slanting shelf thrust out from the mountain, and affording room for a few cottages and fields; but all else was naked rock and ragged pine.
What though the main rooms were cramped and stuffy, or that the straggling cottages across the grassy lawn were mere shells.
White cottages dotted the landscape, and there was no trace of the gloomy thicket save one natural bower overhung with trees and interlaced by vines.
On now through Calcot village, a small and straggling little place, but the cottagesare neat and pretty, and the gardens were all ablaze with spring-flowers, and some of the gables and verandahs covered with flowering clematis.
The cottages by the roadside at this time of the year are always worth looking at.
We pass by many a quiet and rural hamlet, the cottages in which are of the most primitive style of architecture, but everywhere gay with gardens, flowers, and climbing plants.
Even those cottages that cannot boast of a morsel of garden have the insides of every window all ablaze with flowering geraniums.
They take place in an open area surrounded by temples and shrines on one side, and large piles of firewood and the palm cottages of the attendants on the other.
The center building, of white marble, is surrounded by villas and cottages erected for the accommodation of the members of the princely families who are sent there.
Handmade silks from looms in the cottages of the peasants can still be purchased in Benares and they wear forever.
Many of the higher officials, merchants, bankers, society people and others have bungalows at Simla furnished like our summer cottages at home.
Several wealthy families have cottages on the grounds which they occupy for a few days each year on festival occasions or as retreats.
The place was very well known, and for long remained in the midst of a potato garden belonging to one of the cottages there.
Then came a row of cottages known as Burton’s Row, where Peterborough attempted to travel past its boundaries and get into the country.
You go as the crow flies to a place called Frog Hall, in front of St. Mary’s Vicarage, one of the cottages remained till 1904, and the place had a very unsavoury reputation.
Cottages appeared furnished with many of the conveniences of life.
There were no cottages further on; the saddler's was the last on that side and at that end of the village.
He had met no one, and the village was as dark as the firmament; in the first few cottagesthere were no lights at all.
I won't have her in and out of the cottages in any case, and I shall tell her so before I go.
To the south three miles away we could see floating on the horizon-like a mirage the hotels and summer cottages of Bay Head.
The season had passed and the windows of the cottages and bungalows on either side of the road were barricaded with planks.
Our mills," he said, "are in New Bedford; and I own several small cottagesthere and in Fairhaven.
On different sides of it long lanes of humble cottagesstraggled out into the fields; the cottages had grey stone walls and red tiled roofs.
Introduce methods enabling persons without ready capital to acquire their cottages or small holdings by paying instalments on reasonable terms.
The cottages are put up in the cheapest possible way consistent with the by-laws of the local authorities.
Emily almost wished to become a peasant of Piedmont, to inhabit one of the pleasant embowered cottageswhich she saw peeping beneath the cliffs, and to pass her careless hours among these romantic landscapes.
On drawing nearer, she distinguished these, by their dress, to be peasants, and perceived several cottages scattered round the edge of the woods, which waved loftily over this spot.
But long ere that hour had arrived, on an early day of August, the door of one of the cottages on the abbey green was opened, and a stout good-looking young man came forth, taking great care to make his exit without noise.
The whole building was searched; and not only that, but the priest's house and many of the cottages on the green, belonging to the servitors of the abbey, were burned to the ground.
The cottages were but small, and a few vacant rooms, scattered here and there throughout the village, were all that could be offered to shelter them and their effects.
In the village street the grey shadows of the cottages alone broke the monotony of the deserted road, till as she looked a figure issued from the door of the inn, and slowly came towards her.
Tower, save the inhabitants of a few scattered cottages along the river Wall, and the farmhouses of Steban Heath.
He would walk when the Squire liked, but three times out of four these walks must be parish rounds, interrupted by descents into cottages and chats in farmhouse parlors.
We have already made two cottages fairly habitable.
I don't say it is a landlord's duty to provide more cottages than are wanted; but if the labor is wanted, the laborer should be decently housed.
It is the policy of the estate, apparently, to let the old and badcottages fall to pieces.
Above the Pierpont Cottages are the buildings of a famous boys' school high in the foothills.
But it was full and we turned back to Al Tahoe, a hotel in a great open space at the southern end of the lake, with pine trees scattered here and there, and a little colony of cottages outside the main building.
Higher up were the cottages of the Pierpont Inn, and higher still the big building of the school, all over-topped by the great masses of the mountains behind.
Settlers' littlecottages were a visible promise of the future, just as they had been in California.
We come on by a very rough, narrow, bumpy, and precipitous mountain road, past the summer cottages of Sulphur Springs into the Santa Paula Valley.
When Carrie began to visit the cottages and to gather the children round her couch on Sunday afternoons, I knew she was her old self again.
Half a dozen bathing-machines were drawn up on the beach; beyond was the Preventive station, and the little white cottages where the Preventive men lived, with neat little gardens in front.
The cottages were pretty and rustic-looking, and had gay little gardens in front.
Jack followed us, but mother called her back, and asked her to go to one of the cottages and fetch Carrie home.
We could, however, distinguish the houses among the rich groves on the top of the cliffs, in which were openings, with pretty cottages perched on projecting ledges, while others were built close down to the water.
At the end of the last century Torquay consisted only of a few fishermen's cottages scattered about the beach.
A few years ago there were only a few cottages on a sandbank, a small stream, and a decoy pond in the neighbourhood.
West Looe is inhabited chiefly by fishermen, their humble cottages being scattered about without any respect to order.
We passed over a well-laid-out piece of ground covered with soft turf, on which sheep and deer were feeding, called the Park; and from it we could see the tall lighthouse and the few cottages on Saint Agnes Island.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cottages" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
