If the larder were empty the "great house" had an exhaustless supply.
But normally in a great house, the butler has charge of his own department only, and his own department is the dining-room and pantry, or possibly the whole parlor floor.
Father Letheby walked over across the moor to the "Great House.
Then whispered something softly to herself, and, with a great lump in her throat, sped swiftly through the village and up to the "Great House.
The dwellings of the negroes were quite a distance from the "Great House," as that of the master was called, and were built in two or more long rows with a street between.
The deserted barnyard lay silent in the white moonlight when the little cart creaked through the gate; but up at the "great house" there were lights and movements where the family watched the coming of the boys.
I bought slaves of both sexes, fine lands, and built me a great house.
She walked before him, and he followed at a distance, to the gate of a great house, where she knocked.
Some of them left because they were frightened, for it was beginning to be thought not so good a thing to be a servant in a great house.
His thoughts were with the lad he had left and the sad lot of the people who lived at the very gates of a great house.
After having been turned away by half a dozen different farmers, because he never did a stroke of work, he manages to get on the sick-list at the "great house.
It was this knight who built thegreat house of which the present ruins form part, and the date would probably be about 1600.
The palace, or “great house,” was the residence of the governor.
Then laying on the lash with all his might, he pressed forward, at full gallop, in the direction of the "great house.
Every day saw some article or articles of costly furniture brought home from the "Bay"; and the chambers of the "great house" were being freshly decorated to receive them.
The name is merely a mispronounced Pharaoh, the Egyptian Per-aa or "Great House.
It represents the Egyptian Per-aa, or "Great House," and is of repeated occurrence in the inscriptions.
I 'members de days when mammy wored a blue hankerchief 'round her haid an' cooked in de great house.
Marster an' his family lived in de great house an' de slave quarters wus 'bout two hundred yards away to the back of de great house.
Atter many Yankees had passed dey put a bodyguard at de door of de great house, and didn't 'low no one to go in dere.
Mr. Erskine had been well known there, making his yearly visits, taking a great house, and attracting round him all the talent of the day.
On reaching the plantation they entered the great house, while I repaired to Eliza's cabin.
Before daylight I was on the piazza of the "great house," awaiting the appearance of overseer Chapin.
The weaving-house we were erecting stood in the orchard a few rods from the residence of Chapin, or the "great house," as it was called.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "great house" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
