How To Use Cottage In A Sentence
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It was her dream to have a little cottage in the country.
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They'd moved to their cottage a few years ago and ran an electrical business in Didcot.
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After a quarter of an hour, hot buttered toast on a covered hot water plate, with the Staffordshire cottage tea pot in its floral cosy, arrived.
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The woman herself lay in Epsom Cottage Hospital for four days without regaining consciousness.
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The path from Billy's cottage wound down towards the river bank.
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We passed ancient cottages embowered with climbing roses that Edward Elgar must have known as he cycled here on what he called his "trusty steed".
Country diary: Malvern Hills
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They have innumerable beautiful, barefoot children, live in low-slung, thatched, whitewashed cottages, and their climate is often cool, damp and misty.
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The chimney, usually of lath and plaster, ending overhead in a cone and funnel for the smoke, was so roomy in old cottages as to accommodate almost the whole family sitting around the fire of logs piled in the reredosse in the middle, and there they carried on their winter's work.
The Life of Thomas Telford
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The row of cottages below and behind you, is known as Irish Row, named after some of the men who worked the mines.
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On her right stood an empty cottage, fast becoming derelict.
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The garden is very cottagey, I like that loose style of planting.
ParaMonday « Fairegarden
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We have so many quaint old settler cottages as well as grand Victorian and Edwardian buildings.
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Laugharne is a picturesque blend of genteel georgian houses and tiny cottages.
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We have an open invitation to use their holiday cottage whenever we like.
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At the bend, go straight on to the track by the cottages, and dog-leg left then right to pass the barn.
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The studio is midway between his aunt's old home and his cottage.
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Such survivals in the unbroken tradition of the cottage garden are now rare examples of such excellence and are very scarce indeed.
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Many small farms were indeed still let to some cottagers at rack-rent, which cottages had the right of commonage, guaranteed to them in their leases; but afterwards the commons were enclosed, and no recompense was made to the tenants by the landlords.
The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. From George III. to Victoria
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Today, tourism has moved out of its ghettoes, with fincas, farmhouses and stone cottages reimagined as hotels and villas.
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Prices start at £145 for 3 nights for 2 people for our winter weekends in Keeper's Cottage.
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They had to leave their cottage within a week but fortunately another job with a cottage was obtained in Downton.
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You can just imagine the wind howling round outside while everyone crowds into a stone cottage, a fire roaring in the grate and a group of friends simply playing together for the sheer fun of it.
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An old stone cottage forms an important landmark on this vast peatland nature reserve.
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April, without entering the cottage, hangs over the hungry nestlings watching them.] _April.
Poems
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The night's very dark," said Hobbie, rising and looking through the casement of the cottage; "and, to speak truth, and shame the deil, though Elshie's a real honest fallow, yet somegate I would rather take daylight wi 'me when I gang to visit him.
The Black Dwarf
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Some of the new products included on the council's "stocktake" are new farm cottages, guest houses, a diving resort, a fly fishing club, river trips, safaris and mampoer and witblits tasting tours.
ANC Daily News Briefing
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These traditional cottages are not only chocolate-box pretty, they also provide good levels of natural insulation - but don't forget the repair and renewal costs
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My sister Yvonne also came to live at Ockenden Cottage with me.
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The Withern cottage is damp and musky and inspires images for former occupants with bronchitis and other chest complaints.
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Have these ingredients on hand at the cottage for a quick snack served with crisp flatbread, tortilla chips or bagel thins.
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In this little cottage lived an old basketmaker named Janiculo, with his only daughter Griselda, the child of his old age.
The Children's Portion
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The old man lived in a cottage on the side of the hill.
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Now often the single men working on a farm have a cottage for accommodation and cook for themselves.
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She happily green-lighted zoning changes to allow a few small cottages to be demolished and replaced by impressive mansions.
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Many cottages are a home from home, offering microwaves, dishwashers, tvs and videos.
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Cottage Cheese, also a fresh unripened cheese, generally has additional milk or cream mixed with the curd.
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The charming old buildings and cottages are a throwback to the colonial past.
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Wash the sprouts well, put equal portion in kachori with cottage cheese and tomato dices.
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Other fields and cottage gardens grow grapevines on overhead trellises, the soil beneath the arches being densely planted with cabbages and other vegetables.
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The entrance to the mews or garden flat is from the lane behind the main house, and it has the appearance of a country cottage.
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Birdsong enters the cottage from front and back - blackbirds, robins, finches.
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Ramsay Gardens' facade is a random, unlikely mixture of bold baronial turrets and bland English cottage-styles.
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The door of the barn looked between the end of the cottage and some disused piggeries through a five-barred gate upon the highroad.
The Food of the Gods and how it came to Earth
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Our road ended abruptly at a cluster of cottages with names like Moor Head and Little Gill.
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There was no pony, no grass, no flowers, no bright-birded forest -- but the cottage of the wise woman -- and before her, on the hearth of it, the goddess-child, the only thing unchanged.
A Double Story
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The kitchen of this delightful cottage is fully equipped with all mod cons including a dishwasher.
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The first- floor bathroom is similarly spacious and light, and looks on to the verdant, cottagey back garden.
Times, Sunday Times
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A self-catering cottage for 4-5 costs £250-300 a week.
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The English cottage has a rheumatic floor of beaten earth or tile; its rooms are few and small, and very dark; the water-supply is scanty and most inconvenient; its chimney smokes; mice and rats find secure refuge in the thatch; the masses of clinging vines make it damp and earwiggy; but what a lovely bit it is in the landscape!
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 12, No. 32, November, 1873
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Nathan was lounging on the grass bank outside the cottage.
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Other trees at Anderson Cottage will be considered for historic designation along with those nominated by communities across the country.
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Our house in Ireland was really nothing more then a cottage with white shingles on the pointed roof, the outer boards a pale shade of green.
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The pale smoke from the cottage chimney pencilled up.
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THE SUN'S SUNK behind the row of trees and clapboard cottages on the shore, past the reef and its traffic — fishermen and jetskiers heading back to houses and bars — past where the Connecticut River dumps its brackish load into Long Island Sound.
Monkeytown prologue/chapter first
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A modernist vacation cottage in the woods of Argentina uses an overlarge door to resist the sense of smallness and to add a feeling of luxury.
Living Within Less
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Bold teal paint livens up this cottagey children's bathroom where it covers a vintage clawfoot tub, old-fashioned sink and walls above crisp white paneling.
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Five cottages were to be sold as one lot but the bidding started at £300 and rose slowly to £510 when the property was withdrawn.
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She receives rent from all the people whose cottages are on estate land.
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When they reached the cottage, Wade parked near the porch and carried her suitcase inside.
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In the tithe map this ford is marked, the only one in that neighbourhood, and the cottage is also marked exactly in the position mentioned by Fanny, the only building so placed.
Juniper Hall: A Rendezvous of Certain Illustrious Personages during the French Revolution, Including Alexandre D'Arblay and Fanny Burney
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Concrete pillboxes were constructed above the high tide mark, soldiers occupied some of the cottages along the shore front and guards prevented anyone going on the beach at night.
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They have a cottage by the seaside.
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A cottage industry has even sprung up among companies that provide information about other people seeking information.
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It's a beautiful cottage not more than five minutes from the nearest beach.
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The cottage on the left here was bought by some business type who was going to weekend here with his girlfriend.
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He also asserted that the day of the cottage industry was over.
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Today, tourism has moved out of its ghettoes, with fincas, farmhouses and stone cottages reimagined as hotels and villas.
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Sammy lived in a small cottage on the bank of the Berkeley to Gloucester canal.
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You can have my cottage whenever you like.
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One of the last photographs of him shows him in his seventeenth-century timbered cottage, resting on a sofa beside the massive open fire chimney corner.
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The church stood in a small cluster of farmers' cottages.
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Turn left when level with thatched cottage on track.
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As building work on a £400,000 recreation of historic cottages in Leigh goes full steam ahead plans are already afoot to get the buildings listed.
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They soon discover that the cheaper end of the market means £375,000 for an unmodernised three-bedroom cottage in the middle of nowhere.
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The women card, the children spin, the men weave; and each cottage is a little manufactory of drugget and serge, which is taken to market in spring, and sold in the low-country towns.
The Huguenots in France
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Turn heat on low, and slowly stir in cottage cheese mixture.
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These changes provoked the anger of William Cobbett, who wished to return to a golden age when England was still a land of prosperous yeomen farmers and contented cottagers.
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Initially made up of a few cottages and farm buildings, by 1918 the original buildings had become a large hutted camp with 50 officers and 1,100 other ranks.
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Love can turn the cottage into a golden palace.
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Among the curiosities are the necklace [FN#682] of human bones given to Burton by Gelele, some specimens of old Istrian china picked up in the cottages near Trieste, and a three-sided mirror and two crystals with which Burton used to mesmerise his wife.
The Life of Sir Richard Burton
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When they reached the cottage they both felt the need for unity.
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We aim to make sure that the cottage is in tip-top condition for any prospective purchasers having it surveyed.
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The cottage was a casualty of the forest fire.
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Evidence shows that smallholders and cottagers were less likely to have kinsmen on the manor than large or middling tenants.
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The town boasted three flour mills, a bakery, a tannery, several breweries, shops and rows and rows of little cottages.
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His last years, lived by invitation in cottages in Sussex and Kent, fed and wined by beneficent admirers, provided a sort of rural coda of tranquillity.
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Taibach, where Cis and Elfed lived, was largely a cluster of small cheap terraced cottages since demolished and unmourned.
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Living reclusively in a rented cottage in nearby Nunnington, they have both withdrawn from community life.
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On the road back to the tarn we passed a cluster of cottages.
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Thatched-roof cottages characterize the medieval village of Dunster, among the largest of Exmoor's villages and hamlets and one of the park's most popular attractions.
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This is stolen from his cottage by the squire's reprobate son Dunstan Cass, who disappears.
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I was dreaming of gardens of primrose and moors covered with heather and cottages with honeysuckle over the door.
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It was impossible to associate his remembered almost total uninterest in his surroundings with those chintzy curtains, that hanging basket of trailing ivy and fuchsia over the door of Faith Cottage or the two brightly painted yellow tubs still garish with summer flowers which had been artfully placed one each side of the porch.
She Closed Her Eyes
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Princess Grace's three children became owners of the tumbledown cottage after her death.
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he inquired about cottages for sale
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Estates advertising holiday cottages often also have long-term lets available.
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Some cottages accept pets, so there is no need to hunt around for a dog sitter!
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It is stated that the fire started in a cottage.
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They are fulfilling their dream of rural life in a honey-coloured cottage.
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They lived in a remote cottage set high on a woody hillside.
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Main picture: Faded furniture, old-fashioned fabrics and flowers combine to create a country cottage feel.
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And Mary Catherine is what that old biddy, Clara of the Bowed Legs and Beehive her hair, who lives in the cottage across the path, calls a navel gazer.
Amaryllis in Blueberry
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Others are having to spend extra on accommodation before being allowed access to self-catering cottages.
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The book was influential in the abolition of the tied cottage in the years following the war.
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He'd got Miss Lockwood into the cottage hospital.
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Turn heat on low, and slowly stir in cottage cheese mixture.
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Rents the old Tanner cottage, remember it?
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As to flowers, they are the prettiest periodicals ever published in folio -- the leaves are wire-wove and hot-pressed by Nature's self; their circulation is wide over all the land; from castle to cottage they are regularly taken in; as old age bends over them, his youth is renewed; and you see childhood poring upon them, prest close to its very bosom.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 406, December 26, 1829
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In most cases, e-workers work from home full or part-time, or they can work from designated telecottages - resource centres where they can pay to use the centre's facilities as employees working at a distance from their employer.
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In a cottage garden the dog, high on his haunches at the length of his chain, cocked his ears towards the huswife in the wash-house, hoping against hope for a miracle.
In a Green Shade A Country Commentary
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While most of the waste produced within the Village will be managed by the AQUH system, as much waste as possible will be "up-cycled", thereby demonstrating how to turn a liability into a profit center for Village cottage industry.
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Dieting always seems to conjure up images of endless cottage cheese salads.
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The kitchen of this delightful cottage is fully equipped with all mod cons including a dishwasher.
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All the witches who'd lived in her cottage were bookish types.
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This gave the hard working couple the opportunity to rent one of the tied cottages.
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Then she would do housework, but it was such an austere cottage that there was hardly anything to do.
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Their offerings run the whole spectrum, edibles, medicinals, but most important from a cottage industry perspective, the body care and cosmetic market.
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This charming cottage dates back to the 15 th century and is as pretty as a picture, with its thatched roof and secluded garden.
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Cottage meetings and religious societies offered a sense of friendship and fellowship, a powerful combination of individual assurance and community discipline.
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Voice over Border Oak builds around 30 timber framed homes a year from manor houses to small cottages.
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The cottages have windows in the floors that reveal a rich parade of marine life: bonefish, jacks, garfish and whip morays.
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Instructions are stapled onto the side. I study them closely as I return to the cottage.
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Love can turn the cottage into a golden palace.
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The tiny cottage with its leaded windows and thatched roof was as pretty as a picture.
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There is the land of course, with its leisurely rhythm and the cottages that seem to grow up out of the earth; the old alehouse, the Helyar Arms which, I discovered, and contrary to popular stories about English cooking, can give you a wonderful lunch.
Roger Housden: T.S. Eliot's Village Bares Its Teeth
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More and more of the super-rich are, apparently, turning away from the best hotels and booking their annual break at the seaside, in cottages without television, DVDs, computers or any sort of electronic wizardry.
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We have our own architecture with the famous shotgun houses and Creole cottages and the mansions in the Garden District.
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Love lives in cottages as well as in courts.
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In 1980, the per capita consumption in the United States was 18 pounds of cheese of which one-third was cottage cheese.
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Out in all weather, bringing a friendly rat-tat-tat to many an isolated cottage door, sharing a bit of news, taking a message to a doctor or priest if someone was in trouble.
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There was a cottage garden at the front and a white picket fence.
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She'd gladly have gone anywhere to get away from the cottage.
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We especially loved the garden cottages and their alfresco showers in tiny gravelled courtyards.
Times, Sunday Times
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The Act gives protection, if sometimes uncertain protection, to most full-time workers living in agricultural tied cottages.
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The rustic cottage, constructed with pine slats, was the home of a man who loved the outdoors.
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The cottage includes four bedrooms, three reception rooms, a bathroom and toilet, a 24 ft kitchen, a cloakroom with toilet and a garage.
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Cottage gardens usually look their best in early summer, but do include plants that peak at different seasons such as early bulbs, wallflowers and violas for spring.
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Mr.. Thorowgood, not to be outdone, responded to the effect that she had "suspicioned" all along that this was going to be the case, and that when she had heard in the village yesterday that Mr. Coventry had gone straight to the Cottage upon his return that afternoon to Silverquay -- with Mr. Lovell away in Ferribridge, too, and all!
The Vision of Desire
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The unauthorised timber chalet was built on farmland at Neaum Hurst Cottages in Skelwith Bridge in 2001, along with a summerhouse and shed.
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It was still possible to meander down country lanes, see horses pull ploughs and smell woodsmoke from the chimneys of thatched cottages in the evenings.
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So it was done and they were on their way back to the little cottage in the one-horse cart.
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One morning that cherubical creature opened its eyes at a much earlier hour than usual, and stared at the ceiling of its father's cottage.
Deep Down, a Tale of the Cornish Mines
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Rather than feel like an empty or unfilled space, the dream of the cottage is a warm beacon.
Writer’s Paradise « Write Anything
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She proposed to do this closing at the first moment of sheer intolerableness, and that moment seemed well reached when she entered Creeper Cottage and realized what the attic, the kitchen, and the pump really meant.
The Princess Priscilla's Fortnight
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Butter and cheese were made on practically every farm and even the cottager killed and salted his own bacon.
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Next there are the farmhouses which normally offer half-board at a cost little higher than the self-catering cottages and chalets that are also available.
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Pausing to fellate a fellow cottager, he then added, "I'm sure you'll agree that this is sterling work by the Prime Minister and should be recognised as such".
Sharp Increase in GDP Reported
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But Davey's quiet life changes when he falls in love with the tactless but vulnerable Sarah, a Scottish bargee who stays with him in his lock-keeper's cottage while her narrow-boat's broken propeller-shaft is repaired.
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The thatched cottages were usually intolerable slums when the poor inhabited them, and were only made liveable when the rich discovered the charm of a simple rustic habitation as an escape from the industrial urban environment.
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Conjure up the cottage you imagined hansel and gretle finding in the woods.
I-claudius Diary Entry
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In turn, Goff invited Minton for weekend visits to his four-hundred-year-old cottage at Dallington in Sussex.
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Low-fat cottage cheese is prepared in the same manner as cottage cheese and must comply with all labelling requirements for cottage cheese.
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It took ten minutes to reach Honey Cottage, with Yanto trying his best to scare the pants off Mary.
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Cumberland curs burst out from backs of cottages and barked like other curs, and the Cumberland peasantry stared after the dog-cart amazedly, as long as it was in sight, like the rest of their race.
The Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices
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The villagers whose cottages are destroyed by the floods have to be relocated immediately.
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Next weekend I start a week's holiday in a cottage in the Cotswalds.
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There was no mistaking it, it was a "lattice" -- a real one, with old bluish panes set in sturdy black moldings, not the stage variety made of plate glass and papier-mache that he had seen in the sham cottage of aesthetic suburbs at home.
The Refugees
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Always known as Wesley's Cottage it was destroyed by enemy action in May 1941.
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I branch off into the residential area, passing dozens of quaintly named, chocolate-box cottages.
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A small cottage industry of biotechnology firms has sprung up to investigate this, using a variety of methods.
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This will make dining out much easier and of course extends the variety of protein foods beyond fish, chicken and cottage cheese!
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The owners renovated the fireplace using reclaimed bricks, keeping the old look and feel of the cottage.
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Until quite recent times there was an outlying cottage which disappeared when the pond became the centre of a modern plantation.
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She visited the cottage every day and the sprites brought gifts of seeds and flowers to show their appreciation for the heroic deed he had done.
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The old fashioned casual looks of masterwort is exceptional in cottage and country gardens where it first got its start.
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From the outside, the 200-year-old cottage looks fairly compact, but inside there's a considerable amount of space.
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The manor house and a group of older cottages are still there, part of a collection of beautiful things that makes La Sagesse special.
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The cottage had been spruced up a bit since her last visit.
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cottages along by the river
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Whether passive houses and cottages will startproliferating landscape, orappearon apublic TV station near you, is another matter.
Passive Aggressive: “Passive” Home Construction Comes to Seattle « PubliCola
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Armed with 18th century maps he showed me the straggle of ruined cottages once occupied by poor country folk who worked for a pittance on local farms.
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The body was found among the remains of a burnt-out cottage.
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Rural dwellers have traditionally lived in whitewashed stone cottages and farmhouses.
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Their cottage is in an idyllic rural setting.
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Today the concept of a pedestrian-friendly, densely built community of wood-frame cottages with front porches and picket fences hardly seems avant-garde.
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The cottage gradually fell into ruin.
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It also suggested his parity with the region's affluent summer cottagers, many of them from Boston, who were his patrons.
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In those days, the cottages now used for respite care for disabled children were run as individual homes where husband-and-wife teams, known as housefathers and housemothers, looked after abandoned or orphaned children.
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We're planning to keep the cottage on over the summer.
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If we decide to buy the cottage we'll have to do it up.
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Twin Lakes Fish Camp provides trailer hookups, tent camping sites, and several little cottages.
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He fixed up the cottage before they moved in.
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Top with the cottage cheese, and sprinkle the mixed herbs on top.
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Those cottages blend perfectly with the landscape.
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Montague published his findings in the October 2004 issue of Neuron, and a cottage industry was born.
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So I'm on my own in the cottage, in the freezing cold (no central heating and windows open all day) and with the main living area uninhabitable.
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It was a fine home for a borderer—no bastle house, but still, a large cottage.
Tempted by Your Touch
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It was before dawn on New Year's Day that they reached the cottage of Perks, a warrener or gamekeeper, who had been dismissed from Mrs Littleton's service for dishonesty.
It Might Have Been The Story of the Gunpowder Plot
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Many people do not understand the use of chintzes and cretonnes, other than in bedrooms and summer cottages.
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With old stone collected from derelict cottages on the edge of the village they built a circular garden.
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With its drystone hedges, bedraggled cottages, enigmatic stone menhirs, and rainswept green fields, Jejudo has something of a Celtic feel.
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This is music to play when you're at the cottage, when all your defenses and pretenses are left back in the city.
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Inside the town, the cottage bursts into flame and quickly burns down to cinders.
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Why not knit a cottage garden in bright colours to remind you of summer all year around?
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They did up an old cottage in the Scottish Highlands.
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an old-world cottage
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They built their two-roomed stone or weatherboard cottages and with great hopes put in a wheat crop as soon as possible.
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He said such incidents are common because of the flammable materials involved in the construction of thatched cottages.
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Born of people's misfortunes, credit counseling was a sleepy cottage industry for a long time.
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Gabriel put them all into a canvas bag and hung them on a nail inside the cottage door.
