What is "summer-house"

Usage examples of "summer-house".

We sat in a summer-house from which, ourselves unseen, we could see all the carriages that approached the house.

If to--day it flaunted its tower, its summer-houses, its outbuildings, in tints that the French so well call criard, one might be sure that tomorrow the dark Murray pines, the broad-leafed Moreton Bay fig tree, the inevitable Pinus insignis that dotted the lawn in front of the house, would interpose their rich sombre green between your vision and the brightness of colouring that offended it.

Dubster made so loud an outcry, that two or three of the sportsmen looked up, and one of them, riding close to the summer-house, perceived the two young ladies, and, instantly dismounting, fastened his horse to a tree, and contrived to scramble up into the little unfinished building.

Jump twenty-one years into the future, when several of those children-turned-adults are now regathered at the original summer-house scene for their own stale antics of adultery and ennui.

Edgar, almost agonised by suspence and doubt, had escaped to the summer-house, whither he was followed by Dr.

Through the flower and fruit garden, against whose high outer walls peach trees and nectarines were trained to the sun, through the stables, the vinery, the mushroom house, the asparagus beds, the rosery, the summer-house, he conducted her--even into the kitchen garden to see the tiny green peas which Holly loved to scoop out of their pods with her finger, and lick up from the palm of her little brown hand.

I shall pass some hours of the morning with Musikmeister Hummel, pursuing my secret plan, the unfortunate venue of which appears to be the summer-house.

I got my oboe and went to the room of Herr Hummel and from there we made our way, unseen by any, to the summer-house.

If I remember rightly, there are two actual cataracts--one not far above the steps by which the descent is made into the channel, and the other close under a summer-house, near to which the visitors reascend into the wood.

They were passing under a young oak tree, where the path wound round to the rosery and summer-house.

Serafita, with much marble terracing, and yet another of her innumerable little summer-houses.

Rome and savage Africa, for while the main part of the building was roofed with handmade tile, several porches were covered with native grass thatch, while a small outbuilding at the far end of the garden was a replica of a Bagego hut except that the walls were left unplastered, so that the structure appeared in the nature of a summer-house.

We found there a pretty summer-house which we entered, and Ismail attempted some liberties which were not at all to my taste, and which I resented by rising in a very abrupt manner.

I noticed a summer-house at a little distance, and feeling sure that M.

We sat in a summer-house from which, ourselves unseen, we could see all the carriages that approached the house.