Cottages Sentence Examples

The healers. village consisted of several dozen cottages around a central square, in which many of the village.s people gathered and talked or cooked meals over red flames.

He heard whispers traded behind doors and cottages and waited.

In Henley Street, close by, is the house in which the poet was born, greatly altered in external appearance, being actually two halftimbered cottages connected.

There are many fine country places, two private schools - the Mackenzie school for boys and the Misses Masters' school for girls - and the children's village (with about thirty cottages) of the New York juvenile asylum.

On the contrary, most of its branches can be carried on in the cottages of the peasantry.

At South Manchester, an attractive industrial village, a silk mill was built in 1838; the silk mills of one firm (Cheney Brothers) here cover about 12 acres; the company has done much for its employees, whose homes are almost all detached cottages in attractive grounds.

In two peasants' cottages in the Campagna, protected with wire netting by Professor Celli, all the inmates-10 in number - escaped, while the neighbours suffered severely; and three out of four persons living in a third hut, from which protection was removed owing to the indifference of the inmates, contracted malaria.

He joined a Methodist class, threw his house open for love-feasts and prayer-meetings, and did a great deal of itinerant evangelization among the cottages of the countryside.

Local preachers received notice to quit their holdings, labourers were discharged, those who opened their cottages for meetings were evicted, and to show any hospitality to a travelling preacher was to risk the loss of home and employment.

When the stupa was discovered the villagers had already carried off the greater part of the monument to build their cottages with the stones and bricks of it.

Around the cottages in the mountains the land is cleared for cultivation, and produces thriving crops of barley, wheat, buckwheat, millet, mustard, chillies, etc. Turnips of excellent quality are extensively grown; they are free from fibre and remarkably sweet.

This fact and the peculiar character of the houses must have given to Silchester rather the appearance of a village with scattered cottages, each in its own plot facing its own way, than a town with regular and continuous streets.

In these cottages or cells a Carthusian monk passed his time in the strictest asceticism, only leaving his solitary dwelling to attend the services of the Church, except on certain days when the brotherhood assembled in the refectory.

The enclosure is divided into two courts, of which the eastern court, surrounded by a cloister, from which the cottages of the monks (I) open, is much the larger.

Cettigne itself is little more than a walled village, consisting of a cluster of whitewashed cottages and some unadorned public buildings.

The business and manufacturing section is close to the river and only a few feet above it; behind this, along a ridge, is the residential district; along the Sound are summer cottages and pleasure resorts.

It is one of the most popular seaside resorts on the Atlantic coast, its numerous hotels and cottages accommodating a summer population that approximates 50,000, and a large transient population in the autumn and winter months.

Sir Thomas Roe, who visited it in 1614, found that the houses in the town were "only mud cottages, except the prince's house, the chan's and some few others."

Rhymer's Tower was crumbling to pieces, and its stones were being used in the erection of dykes, cottages and houses, when the Edinburgh Border Counties Association acquired the relic and surrounding lands in 1895, and took steps to prevent further spoliation and decay.

He had their respect, if not their love; he is the hero of a thousand ballads; and his portrait still hangs among the ikons in the cottages of the Greek mountaineers.

But the hereditable jurisdictions and feudal powers, as of calling out tenants by the fiery cross and punishing the peaceful by burning their cottages, had never been abolished; the chief's will was law, and if the chiefs headed a rising, their clansmen would follow them, willingly or " forced out."

It is a cluster of old-fashioned cottages in a unique position on the sides of a rocky cleft in the north coast; its main street resembles a staircase which descends 400 ft.

The villages lie thickly scattered, consisting of low thatched cottages, and surrounded by patches of garden land, or groves of banyan, pipal and pakar trees.

The lake, one of the most beautiful of the so-called "finger lakes" of central New York, abounds in lake and rainbow trout, black bass, pickerel and pike, and there are many summer cottages along its shores.

This is a curious collection of small cottages, where communal government by a locally elected mayor long prevailed, together with peculiar laws and customs, strictly exclusive inter-marriage, and a high moral and religious standard.

It withstands the sea and mountain breezes better than most other timber trees, and is often planted near farm-houses and cottages in exposed localities for the sake of its dense foliage.

These conditions led at one time to the erection of thirteen cottages at a point about 1 m.

The experiment failed, and only two cottages now remain as curiosities.

There are fine hotels, club houses and cottages, and the Palmetto Golf Links near the city are probably the finest in the southern states; fox-hunting, polo, tennis and shooting are among the popular sports.

But the expression is a little misleading, for it includes separate houses or cottages for the working classes, whether containing one or several tenements, and the expression " cottage " may include a garden of not more than half an acre, provided that the estimated annual value of such garden shall not exceed £3.

This is due to the cool and refreshing summer climate; the picturesque coast and its many islands, which are favourite grounds for camps and summer cottages; the mountains, and the beautiful lakes and rivers, many of which afford opportunities for good fishing and canoeing.

About 1870, camps, summer cottages, summer hotels and boarding houses began to multiply throughout the state.

For fully half the year the cottages of its villages are damp with the haar, or dense mist, borne on the east wind from the North Sea.

The ceremonies which accompany a wedding preserve the tradition of marriage by capture; a peasant bride must enter her new home carrying bread and salt, and in parts of Walachia a flower is painted on the outer wall of cottages in which there is a girl old enough to marry.

The village consists of wooden cottages with an inn (gdstgifvaregard), a church, and frequently a collection of huts without windows, closed in summer, but inhabited by the Lapps when they come down from the mountains to the winter fairs.

Under the zadruga system, each homestead or cluster of cottages is occupied by a group of families connected by blood and dwelling together on strictly communistic principles.

As a complement to the Land Act and Arrears Act, boards of guardians were this year empowered to build labourers' cottages with money borrowed on the security of the rates and repayable out of them.

But the working of the Labourers Acts was very costly, cottages being often assigned to people who were not agricultural labourers at all.

The inhabitants had of necessity made their settlement on the plain on the north-west of Tristan; here a number of substantial stone cottages and a church were built.

Alluring brooks of crystal water flowed sparkling between their flower-strewn banks, while scattered over the valley were dozens of the quaintest and most picturesque cottages our travelers had ever beheld.

They followed the course of a broad stream and passed several more pretty cottages; but of course they saw no one, nor did any one speak to them.

Looking through this opening they could see the Valley of Voe lying far below them, the cottages seeming like toy houses from that distance.

It can't always be white picket fences and cottages.

He walked up the beach and into the shrubs, finding a path that led to a small village of red cottages.

Much has been done in keeping out the insects by fine wire netting placed on the windows and the doors of houses, especially in the railwaymens cottages.

In 1762 the number of houses in West Ham parish was stated to be 700, of which "455 are mansions and 245 cottages."

Maundrell in 1697 found it a complete ruin, save for a khan occupied by some French merchants, a mosque and a few poor cottages.

A line called the Dock Extension railway was carried round the whole, and the company erected, for their workmen, the Dock Cottages.

In the earlier part of the 17th century Greenock was a fishing village, consisting of one row of thatched cottages.

It is a small fishing port, with narrow paved lanes and old-fashioned cottages.

There are few or no large congested tenement-house districts; most of the wage-earners own their own homes or rent cottages.

Their benevolent disposition often made them enter the cottages of the poor.

However, with few exceptions, the cottages are styled within the vernacular revival idiom.

The cottages are built of wonderful honey-toned Cotswold stone, and the whole village exudes an aura of charm and relaxed timelessness.

A few of the old mill cottages still survive but the ones on the river bank have long gone.

Meander by the thatched cottages & watch the blacksmith at work.

In front of the cottages are two mooring bollards which were used to secure boats to the landing stage.

The old hamlet lay around the ruined chapel to the south, on the county boundary, where there are still traces of cottages.

A cozy modern bungalow built in a small complex of 9 similar cottages.

You will also find nearby a bunkhouse that can sleep 20, two cottages sleeping up to 8 each and a house sleeping 10.

Orchard Farm Cottages 2 comfortable farm cottages converted from a traditional cow byre, retaining the original beams.

They provide self catering holiday accommodation in static caravans and cottages as well as touring caravan pitches.

The village itself is full of pretty cobbled cottages located in narrow streets that lead down to the Key.

The semi-detached miners ' cottages now form part of a conservation area designated in 1980.

Not far from the thatched cottages, a lane runs between trees down to the church.

We have terraced cottages sleeping 2, 4-5, 7-8 please enquire for availability details.

We can also offer 4 self-catering cottages for hire.

The town is worth a visit in its own right, with its charming cottages of Cotswold stone and Georgian facades.

Our 8 delightful farm cottages offer a relaxing holiday for all ages.

Today the village has around 380 houses ranging from listed manor houses and quaint cottages, to modern town houses and octagonal architect-designed dwellings.

A delightful rural hamlet of natural stone cottages, set deep in the wooded Camel valley.

And within a mile of the cottages there is an 18 hole golf course, tennis, squash courts and gymnasium.

Bramble Byre and Dairy Dell cottages are converted from the original cowshed and dairy.

Behind our trench there were three cottages just across the road & shallow ditch ran from our trench to the road.

A gravel driveway leads past the rear of the cottages to a parking area to the side of which is a single garage.

From Bridge Cottages, continue eastwards on the footpath on the south side of Romsey Road.

The crumbling remains of Corfe Castle and the deserted cottages of Tyneham have an eerie enchantment for children.

Thatched cottages, ponds, sea estuary with boats laid up in the brief sunshine made an idyllic scene.

Our list of cottages for rent vary from converted farmhouses.. .

Our home for the next two nights will be in stone cottages on a traditional farmstead nestled against the Sneeuberg Mountains.

These include The Old Dame School, one of two cottages - with The Old Post Office - which show a little architectural finesse.

Two of the cottages have a coal burning effect fire.

The peasant folk lived in dark, dank cottages with a fire in the middle of the floor.

Go over bridge WITH CARE & follow road through the picturesque hamlet with its 17 th Century timbered cottages.

Set a few yards away from the other holiday cottages it offers a marvelous hideaway in Cornwall for couples or for honeymoons.

From holiday cottages to luxury villas, seaside apartments to country hideaways.

Loch Ness Cottages Self catering holidays sleeps Ledaig Farm house Self catering west highland cottages.

His family homestead at Camphill is one of the more substantial of the cottages re-located here.

Houses and cottages cuddle together in a fascinating higgledy piggledy jumble of different periods.

Many cottages and barns still have a reed matting which was woven diagonally and laid over the rafters and under the thatch.

A private hamlet of 5 comfortable, cozy cottages nestled in a peaceful hidden 15 acre valley yet just 5 minutes from Kingsbridge.

Old World their old-world charm, thatched cottages tend to be a little dark inside.

Below, floats, markers and exploded ordnance decorate the wall of one of the cottages.

Also 3 FREEHOLD COTTAGES Brick built and slated each containing 2 lower and 2 upper rooms with brick and tiled outhouses.

The coastal path is easily accessed from these cottages.

Many homeworking scams involve piecework from painting cottages to assembling electronic components.

Perched in an elevated position, these award winning cottages offer the ultimate in self catering luxury.

The extraordinary human history of St Kilda is carefully preserved in the Village with its neat little street of cottages.

Enjoy clay pigeon shooting and go-kart rally cross, then relax to our country cottages near Penrith.

In fact, Richard is merely planning to have all of the tied cottages renovated.

Originally two farm cottages dating back to 1750 AD the property has been sympathetically renovated to meet present day standards.

The original Winding Department was upstairs in the cottages overlooking the river.

There is also a wealth of chocolate box cottages, grand homes and ancient ruins.

Set just outside the charming village of Crantock with its thatched and colorful cottages, the park overlooks secluded Crantock Beach.

The cottages enjoy seclusion, being some 100 meters apart.

From Victorian terraces to well-proportioned 1930's semis, and from medieval cottages to country mansions, all houses have a story to tell.

Two-seater settee in bay window with roman blinds which overlooks cottages opposite.

Pond House Cottages are on a working smallholding 6 miles South of Cardigan in West Wales, bordering the Pembrokeshire National Coastal Park.

It is worth a visit tho for its pretty cottages and the excellent fish smokehouse.

They are personally supervised by the owners who live in the farm adjacent to the cottages.

They can be any size or shape, and cottages with lots of flowers round the door are very effective, and highly tactile.

There are pretty thatched cottages, barn conversions or elegant marine apartments.

Some of the cottages which we see in Breamore today replaced the former tiny and often unsanitary dwellings at this time.

Roseland Holiday Cottages Small personally run agency offering luxury waterside & country cottages on the beautiful Roseland Peninsula, South Cornwall.

The cottages were built in the early sixteen hundreds by Flemish weavers who won permission to build against the outside of the city wall.

More about Eastern England Self-catering accommodation in Eastern England includes Cottages, farmhouses and converted windmills and barns.

Wood is the most common material of which the residences are built; a large portion of these residences are one-storey cottages; broad verandahs are common; and of the more pretentious residences the lanai, a semi-outdoor drawing-room with conservatories adjoining, is a notable feature.

The rustic class appears in them to be differentiated into several subdivisions - the geneats performing riding duties and occasional services, the geburs burdened with week work and the cotsets holding cottages and performing light work in the shape of one day in the week and services to match (see Villenage).

The museum is housed in a building which is similar to the original quarrier 's cottages.

Self Catering A wide choice from cozy cottages to rambling farmhouses.

Red Cross Cottages were designed by Elijah Hoole in a Tudor revivalist style.

Beside the lock is a row of cottages, with opposite an arm full of boats.

The cottages retain a traditional, rustic French ambiance.

We have two single story, semidetached cottages, each sleeping four persons.

The family accommodation is either a split-level family cottage or two cottages with a connecting door.

The workers often lived in squatter cottages, which they built from materials found on the land.

There were 13 cottages here, and they had fallen into a very bad state of repair.

Pamphill is the estate village par excellence, with tied cottages scattered through a sylvan landscape around the church of St Stephen.

Formerly two farm workers cottages, tasteful renovation has created a superbly spacious abode.

Continue past even more delightful thatches cottages, continuing along Common Lane at the end of the High Street.

In the High Street is a picturesque group of half timbered cottages reliably thought to date from the 13th century.

Northill is an attractive village with thatched cottages, duckpond and 14th century church with Tompion clock.

Peace and tranquility combined with dramatic panoramic views to the Cairngorms National Park mountains awaits you at our self catering cottages.

Pets must not be left unattended in the cottages at anytime.

Come and unwind quickly in these enchanting cottages (really warm and cozy in Winter).

Kings Langley Common, with its wayside cottages, still survives within the settlement.

Most of the cottages are reminiscent of typical weavers cottages built in the 19th century.

These include the world famous Arlington Row, a row of weavers ' cottages dating from the early 17th century.

Towns around Brongwyn Brongwyn Holiday Cottages are nestled in the heart of picturesque welsh countryside, but you certainly wo n't feel cut off.

These unique whitewashed cottages feature high peaked ceilings with ceiling fans.

Many cottages are of traditional simple styles, with a narrow layout and whitewashed exterior.

The Company have built and own 845 workmen 's cottages.

Some of the cottages are let to residents, and these are wreathed in flowers.

The cottages in Strata Florida are wretched in the extreme.

Most cottages are a casual style and the furnishings reflect this laid-back approach to coastal living.

Flowers are always associated with cottages and you can add arrangements or even choose a floral wallcovering for you spa.

Many options are available for ski packages near Camelback including home rentals, hotel reservations, resorts, cottages, and smaller inns and motels.

If you are looking for adventure or are on a restricted budget, consider camping or more economical accommodations like simple bungalows or cottages.

Excellent for covering bowers, railings, stumps, cottages, etc., and also for naturalisation in hedgerows and copses.

Some of these plants have been grown near cottages in England for hundreds of years.

A variety of self-catering cottages are based on this organic farm.

The community offers residents the choice of cottages, studios, one-bedroom apartments, or two-bedroom suites.

Located in Johnson City in the Tri-Cities region in the upper east area of Tennessee, Princeton Gardens is a lovely community of newly built Craftsmen-style cottages.

Depending upon the individual community housing accommodations include one and two-bedroom apartments, cottages and efficiency units.

The Garden Cottages are one of the latest additions to the Chelsea Retirement Community.

Residents who call the Garden Cottages home also have access to Chelsea Retirement Community amenities, including social activities, classes and even "Campus Care," which provides home care support 24 hours a day whenever it is needed.

For generations, visitors rode ferries from Buffalo to the park's pier, and thousands of guests rented beach cottages to enjoy lengthy summer vacations in the exciting and picturesque atmosphere.

Because of its desirable location on the lakeshore, however, the Crystal Beach community was eventually restored and today is a thriving vacation community of cottages and cabins.

Some have country appeal that looks good in cottages and cabins, while others are highly decorative and make beautiful accessories in traditional Victorian homes.

Those looking to experience cabin living at the park will feel right at home in the park's cottages.

Unicoi State Park offers 30 cottages, three of which are designated "dog-friendly" and allow up to two dogs to stay with their owners.

There is an additional one-time fee of $40 per dog for guests staying in the dog-friendly cottages.

If you're looking for something a little less rustic than the cottages, the Lodge and Conference Center may be just what you need.

At Crystal Cove Cottages, the check in time is 4 pm.

Award-winning KOA campground with 50 amp sites, camping, cabins, and cottages.

These distinctive cottages have from one or two rooms and private lanais.

The Hubbard Lake area offers a number of cottages, cabins, private homes, and condos for rent.

A variety of brokers represent private property owners looking to rent their cottages, cabins, or houses to vacationers.

Renting one of the many Lake Hubbard Cottages available is a great way to enjoy the plethora of manmade and natural wonders to be found in Northern Michigan.

Great Rentals - This broker generally has a wide selection of cottages, from small bungalows to large cottages.

Like most vacation rentals and many bed and breakfast inns, Lake Hubbard cottages generally require a 20 to 50 percent deposit with the balance due 30-60 days prior to your arrival.

Many historic cottages have been converted to modern bed and breakfasts, inns, guest houses and inns.

Hotels, cottages and camp grounds are near beaches in the summer and snowmobile paths in the winter.

You can find companies that rent cottages to visitors all year round.

Cottages are cozy, comfortable, and affordable, sleeping up to eight people.

The cottages are generally grouped in small hamlets called "touns."

Under the supervision of the state board of insanity, and each under the government of a board of seven trustees (of whom two are women) are state hospitals for the insane at Worcester (1833), Taunton, Northampton, Danvers, Westboro and Medford, a state colony for the insane at Gardner, a state hospital for epileptics at Palmer, a state school for the feebleminded at Waltham (governed by six trustees), a state school at Wrentham, state " hospital cottages for children " (1882) at Baldwinville (governed by five trustees), and the Foxboro state hospital for dipsomaniacs and insane.

Abulfeda the geographer, writing in the r3th century, notices the fact that part of the Apamaean Lake was inhabited by Christian fishermen who lived on the lake in wooden huts built on piles, and Sir John Lubbock (Lord Avebury) mentions that the Rumelian fishermen on Lake Prasias "still inhabit wooden cottages built over the water, as in the time of Herodotus."

In Stuart times all ranks of society believed in her, and referring to her supposed foretelling of the Great Fire, Pepys relates that when Prince Rupert heard, while sailing up the Thames on the 10th of October 1666, of the outbreak of the fire "all he said was, ` now Shipton's prophecy was out.'" One of her prophecies was supposed to have menaced Yeovil, Somerset, with an earthquake and flood in 1879, and so convinced were the peasantry of the truth of her prognostications that hundreds moved from their cottages on the eve of the expected disaster, while spectators swarmed in from all quarters of the county to see the town's destruction.

The shrines which voluntary worshippers might visit, the public bath-house, and the cottages of the soldiers' wives, camp followers, &c., lay outside the walls.

They passed out into the open country and saw the cottages of the poor people.