Those in his country-house were still more numerous.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 348] Reference

A peculiar charm hangs about an Elizabethan country-house.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 26, August, 1880 of Popular Literature and Science] Reference

But to return to the first impressions of our country-house.    From Wordnik.com.  [Through Finland in Carts] Reference

After a stay at a Lancashire country-house, Willis arrived at.    From Wordnik.com.  [Little Memoirs of the Nineteenth Century] Reference

At a country-house dinner the lady often helps the soup herself.    From Wordnik.com.  [Manners and Social Usages] Reference

I was a guest of Sir Henry Marquis for a week-end at his country-house.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Sleuth of St. James's Square] Reference

But before coming to the country-house, we broke our journey at Anagnia.    From Wordnik.com.  [Meditations] Reference

At Val Richer, near Lisieux, is the pleasant country-house of M. Guizot.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 105, July 1866] Reference

After this came the country-house of the Archbishops of Paris that Henri.    From Wordnik.com.  [Royal Palaces and Parks of France] Reference

I was once at a country-house in Switzerland which illustrates this ideal.    From Wordnik.com.  [Girls and Women] Reference

When his money was gone he said to his son: "Shall we go to the country-house?".    From Wordnik.com.  [Italian Popular Tales] Reference

But the pleasant country-house life went on quite unchecked by events of any sort.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine, December 1878] Reference

My father brought the wainscoting from an old English country-house in Dorsetshire.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Inn at the Red Oak] Reference

There is at Sampigny, in Lorraine, a modest country-house, which was, in fact, my home.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, November 11, 1914] Reference

It was, however, a comfortable country-house, surrounded by a garden and a more ample park.    From Wordnik.com.  [Royal Palaces and Parks of France] Reference

Marquis had gone down to have a look at Rodman's country-house, where the thing had happened.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Sleuth of St. James's Square] Reference

Every country-house is surrounded by balconies, and on them all meals are served in the summer.    From Wordnik.com.  [Through Finland in Carts] Reference

A long visit to the country-house of some friends near Melun, was hailed as a real relief by both.    From Wordnik.com.  [Famous Women: George Sand] Reference

We hear of a "rustic masquerade" as one of the spring entertainments at a country-house in Orange.    From Wordnik.com.  [Manners and Social Usages] Reference

The charm of an American country-house is, generally, that it is a home, and sacred to home duties.    From Wordnik.com.  [Manners and Social Usages] Reference

We raced up the long winding road to Crewe's country-house, sitting like a feudal castle on the summit.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Sleuth of St. James's Square] Reference

General Valette I called on at his country-house, just out of the gates, near the end of the Botanic.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life of Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1838] Reference

Suppose the scene changed to a pleasant country-house, where the enlivening talk has make a guest forget.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author] Reference

The first and second acts take place in the country-house of Madame Larina, the third act in the house of.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Standard Operaglass Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fifty-one Celebrated Operas] Reference

"Miss Lenox is far too brilliant a young lady to stay constantly in a dull country-house," said Mr. Floyd.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, November, 1878 of Popular Literature and Science] Reference

Let us leave these and return to the king, who went the next day with his councillors to the country-house.    From Wordnik.com.  [Italian Popular Tales] Reference

Harriet Martineau was not rich, but when she settled down in her own little country-house she had a competence.    From Wordnik.com.  [Girls and Women] Reference

I spend my Sundays alternately at their splendid country-house, and at Mrs. Skinner's, and they can never get enough of me.    From Wordnik.com.  [Little Memoirs of the Nineteenth Century] Reference

Marion pointed her finger out north, where, far across the valley, a great country-house sat on the summit of a wooded hill.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Sleuth of St. James's Square] Reference

Itzia, and then went on to a village some dozen miles away, where she put up with some friends of hers who had a country-house there.    From Wordnik.com.  [In Direst Peril] Reference

Nobody hates flirting so much as myself, but what is one to do shut up in a country-house, with no earthly thing to occupy or amuse one?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kate Coventry An Autobiography] Reference

One day the king sent for the mason to build a country-house in which to put his money, for he was very rich and had no place to keep it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Italian Popular Tales] Reference

He dined with us; and then we all went to his charming country-house, about one and a half miles from town, and took tea with his family.    From Wordnik.com.  [Young Americans Abroad Vacation in Europe: Travels in England, France, Holland, Belgium, Prussia and Switzerland] Reference

During his stay he was introduced to a rich merchant of the neighbourhood, who invited him to spend a couple of days at his country-house.    From Wordnik.com.  [Little Memoirs of the Nineteenth Century] Reference

Festivals: Basking In Great BooksBy Tara PepperSpending lazy country-house afternoons discussing the latest books isn't just for the landed gentry of eras past.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tip Sheet] Reference