What is "cottages"

Usage examples of "cottages".

Past gaggles of silent cottages they drove, the boards that announced VACANCY or BED AND BREAKFAST swinging forlornly now that most of the holiday visitors were gone.

He nodded through the window, at the trio of farm cottages across the yard.

Like so many cottages in west Clare, it was secreted in a sheltering grove of trees and bushes.

My eye dwelt with delight on neat cottages, with their trim shrubberies and green grass-plots.

They had inhabited one of the neatest cottages, and by various rural occupations, and the assistance of a small garden, had supported themselves creditably and comfortably, and led a happy and a blameless life.

What one could do another could, but had any of them before bothered to enlarge their cottages over the years?

True, the men at times were rowdy, although not so bad nowadays since they were living in respectable cottages and each with his stint of land.

John Toilet and Will Campbell came out of their cottages and witnessed the whole thing, and I made no small mouth.

Those men not on their shift attended the funeral, and others whose pains she had alleviated over the years came too, and the women from the surrounding cottages followed the cart carrying the plain coffin on which were small bunches of late primroses, cowslips and bluebells.

There were eight of them, mostly from the cottages, and their talk on the road back was kindly.

Some of the most contented people I know live in cottages no bigger than this.

A sudden, sharp curve in this lane brought them in sight of East Downes, a tiny hamlet of about thirty cottages, dominated by the steeple of a church of early English architecture.

The dilapidated, thatched hovels had given place to pretty and comfortable white cottages with green blinds, and a vine hanging gracefully over the door.

For a little white town sat demurely at the bottom of the hollow, and a score or two of white cottages scattered themselves from this small nucleus of civilisation over the opposite bank of this imaginary river, which was now a lovely hill-side.

As I have said, the two cottages were built distinct, so that we could have neither sound nor sight of our neighbours, save upon the neutral ground of Mrs.