There's a life for you," said Caderousse; "a town house and a country house.
I read the advertisement in one of the papers, and was tempted by the false title, 'a country house.
In the middle distance are trees and a country house, and in the foreground a meadow with cows standing on the banks of the river.
A Menagerie is nearly four feet square, and represents the courtyard of a country house--that of William III.
A Hostess should receive her Guests= at the head of the staircase at a ball given in town, and at the door of the ball-room at a country house ball.
It may often be noticed running rapidly along the tiles or thatch of a country house, and it not unfrequently takes its station on the point of a gable, or the ridge of the roof, and rehearses its song again and again.
On going home, Caroline says to her poor Adolphe, "What an idea that was of yours, to buy a country house!
So this is the cause of your passion for a country house!
It is agreed by everybody in the parlor of Madame Deschars, that a country house, so far from being a pleasure, is an unmitigated nuisance.
The material for a country house should be strong, and durable, and the work simple in its details, beyond that for either town or suburban houses.
As no more convenient opportunity may present itself, a word or two will be suggested as to the location of the bath-room in a country house.
They're building a most delightful house in town, right in the middle of London, and yet it's to be exactly like a country house!
Small wonder that Mrs. Richard Maule generally absented herself from home when her friend Jane Oglander was there to take the place only a woman can fill in a country house of which the master is an invalid, his heir a bachelor.
All that the words “in a country house” state is a simple fact of locality; but they imply that you were in a place where not to be out of doors was probably a serious trial to the temper.
Captain Steele took a house for his lady upon their marriage, “the third door from Germain Street, left hand of Berry Street,” and the next year he presented his wife with a country house at Hampton.
It happened, I remember, that my guardian was staying at a country house (the Holme), which had formerly belonged to Dr.
My friend had a susceptible heart, and a ravishing beauty was staying at a certain, country house, so we drove over to call there that he might see her.
Fanny chose the character of a country house-maid.
I knew perfectly well that, on the evening I mentioned to his grace, Fred Lamb would be at his father's country house, Brockett Hall.
He informed me that young Berkeley had just arrived from his brother's country house, to demand an explanation of him on the subject of having sent back his letter.
He belonged to the class of business man to whom it is as natural to have a country house as to have a London house, not only for convenience in respect of his work, but also for his social pleasures.
George Grafton had been looking for a country house in a leisurely kind of way for the past ten years, and with rather more determination for about two.
If you lean toward both comfort and formality, and own a country house and a city abode, there will be no difficulty in solving the problem.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "country house" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
