Guests will be given a map and allowed to drive back to the reproduction two-room "dogtrot" - style log cabin to see what life was like during the pre-Civil War and Civil War eras. From Wordnik.com. [tennessean.com - Top News from The Tennessean, MUSIC CITY U.S.A] Reference
Coupled with a "dogtrot" design (a house divided down the middle by an open-air corridor, again to allow a breeze to flow through), these were methods of staying cool. From Wordnik.com. [FriendFeed - georgeh] Reference
He started for the companionway in an unsteady dogtrot. From Wordnik.com. [The Past Through Tomorrow]
But it had two rooms and a dogtrot in the middle and upstairs was this loft. From Wordnik.com. [Oral History Interview with Virginia Foster Durr, March 13, 14, 15, 1975. Interview G-0023-1. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)] Reference
Wonder why dem voters polled perceive you as being untrustworthy? dogtrot 88. From Wordnik.com. [Angry Clinton supporters tell party leaders: 'Let's go McCain!'] Reference
After we broke through, we were at a dogtrot; everybody kept moving forward. From Wordnik.com. [Into the Rising Sun] Reference
Once inside, we stood grouped in the large dogtrot hall waiting for the party to begin. From Wordnik.com. [Jellicoe Road (copy)] Reference
This dogtrot, filled with light courtesy of its long glass ceiling, was lined with planters. From Wordnik.com. [Duma Key]
Having picked his route, he straightened up and at a fast dogtrot headed for the nearest tree. From Wordnik.com. [Tunnel In The Sky]
Leaving the foothills behind, they fell into a ground-eating dogtrot, approaching the herd downwind. From Wordnik.com. [The Clan of the Cave Bear]
And sure enough, there was a brick house and it consisted of two rooms with a dogtrot in between and. From Wordnik.com. [Oral History Interview with Virginia Foster Durr, March 13, 14, 15, 1975. Interview G-0023-1. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)] Reference
Zar led them back inside the perimeter at a steady dogtrot, assuring them that there were no Romulans around. From Wordnik.com. [YESTERDAY’S SON] Reference
(Fannie was evidently referring to the breezeway or dogtrot, down the middle of many small plantation houses). From Wordnik.com. [Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 4] Reference
Winded by the unaccustomed exercise, I held it down to a dogtrot going through the dead building and out the door. From Wordnik.com. [Forever Free]
John continued on a dogtrot towards home, and a moment later was pestering Mrs. Fletcher at her work in the kitchen. From Wordnik.com. [A Son of the City A Story of Boy Life] Reference
Once more they resumed their journey lakewards, breaking into the inevitable dogtrot as the long, dark pier came in sight. From Wordnik.com. [A Son of the City A Story of Boy Life] Reference
With an imperious gesture, Conan dismissed his subchiefs and beckoned his fifty, who followed his long strides at a dogtrot. From Wordnik.com. [Conan the Avenger]
"After the show, professor," he said with firmness, and went out of the cooktent, heading at a rapid dogtrot for the big tent at the other side of the midway. From Wordnik.com. [Charley de Milo] Reference
Don splashed along almost at a dogtrot, trying to stay inside the body of the herd so that he would run no chances of blundering into deeper water in the darkness. From Wordnik.com. [Between Planets]
You enter in the middle of a big asymmetrical chimney; the door is set in a slot that echoes a dogtrot (a hallway cut through from front to back in a local house type). From Wordnik.com. [A SENSE OF PLACE] Reference
They went at a dogtrot, along well-kept trails, under cool leaves; they halted a few minutes at a time when it seemed indicated; but toward the end men lurched along in each other's arms. From Wordnik.com. [do you ever read writing?] Reference
Probably it had been just another bit of gibberish, but I had nothing better to do, so I walked down the hall that would have been a dogtrot in a humbler house - the rain tapping the glass ceiling - and then climbed the wide staircase. From Wordnik.com. [Duma Key]
The girls stood on the front porch of a dogtrot style house. From Wordnik.com. [Meridian Star Homepage] Reference
They followed at a little dogtrot, carrying their loads easily. From Wordnik.com. [The Leopard Woman] Reference
The double dogtrot log structure is based on early personal accounts of an inn operated by Daniel Brown. From Wordnik.com. [tennessean.com - Top News from The Tennessean, MUSIC CITY U.S.A] Reference
To this proposition the guide readily consented, and, having pointed out the direction of the camp, he left on a dogtrot. From Wordnik.com. [Forty years a fur trader on the upper Missouri: the personal narrative of Charles Larpenteur, 1833-1872] Reference
The downstairs is a modified dogtrot: a middle breezeway separates a garage and a one-bedroom apartment with concrete floors. From Wordnik.com. [chron.com Chronicle] Reference
Their own home is new, but modeled after an nearby antique house called a "Texas dogtrot," a classic symmetrical style where rooms wing out from a wide breezeway. From Wordnik.com. [International Herald Tribune - World News, Analysis, and Global Opinions] Reference
With a parting word of instructions to Carthoris and Xodar, in case I should not return, I bade them all farewell and set forth at a rapid dogtrot toward the city. From Wordnik.com. [The Gods of Mars] Reference
"The structure itself is a double pin structure and it originally had an open dogtrot area which was later closed in by the family probably to help with having extra room for a large family," Young said. From Wordnik.com. [Heartland Connection - KTVO News] Reference
On the details: The atelier ground floor contains the work spaces: studio/reception, post-production chamber and storage chambers (which are on either side of the dogtrot and not illustrated), bathroom and kitchen. From Wordnik.com. [Apartment Therapy Main] Reference
She became the wolf, and exited at a dogtrot. From Wordnik.com. [Robot Adept]
I hate mightily to creep, terrapin fashion, in a dogtrot; for you see, stranger, it's a bad gait, and sickens a short man, though the horse that travels stands it best of any. ". From Wordnik.com. [The Partisan: A Tale of the Revolution. By the Author of "The Yemassee," "Guy Rivers," &c. In Two Volumes. Vol. II] Reference
He left on the dogtrot for the corner. From Wordnik.com. [A Son of the City A Story of Boy Life] Reference
He decided to dogtrot and be on time after all. From Wordnik.com. [Tunnel In The Sky]
"Follow me down this dogtrot here. From Wordnik.com. [The Coffin Dancer]
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