In the modern houses the stoep is a shady, pillared, covered gallery, which in hot weather becomes the general living-room of the family. From Wordnik.com. [Here, There and Everywhere] Reference
'stoep', under the trees in his garden, or high up on the mountain side, where he had his favourite nooks. From Wordnik.com. [Victorian Worthies Sixteen Biographies] Reference
Riffle reappeared on the stoep bearing a tea-tray. From Wordnik.com. [Antony Gray,—Gardener] Reference
He smiled at her as he came up the steps of the stoep. From Wordnik.com. [When the Lion Feeds]
Anna was standing on the stoep as he came up to the homestead. From Wordnik.com. [When the Lion Feeds]
He always sends him home when he sees him sitting on the stoep. From Wordnik.com. [Contents] Reference
Eastern Sea, where he sat and mused as aforetime on his stoep at. From Wordnik.com. [With the Guards' Brigade from Bloemfontein to Koomati Poort and Back] Reference
"Ah! I know who your friend is," Clive would jeer from the stoep. From Wordnik.com. [Blue Aloes Stories of South Africa] Reference
"It is better to sleep on the stoep at night," Ghostie recommended. From Wordnik.com. [Blue Aloes Stories of South Africa] Reference
Mandela's stoep before Chirac was whisked away in a convoy of vehicles. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
Antony's brain, as he sat on the stoep, gazing out into the African night. From Wordnik.com. [Antony Gray,—Gardener] Reference
She listened for a moment, then located the speakers close to her in the stoep. From Wordnik.com. [Blue Aloes Stories of South Africa] Reference
His body was found on a stoep at Jeppe hostel in Troyeville where Mkhize lived. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
"Yes," said Kenna's voice from the stoep, "we are all old friends together here.". From Wordnik.com. [Blue Aloes Stories of South Africa] Reference
In a couple of swift steps she was in the stoep and her hand on the knob of the door. From Wordnik.com. [Blue Aloes Stories of South Africa] Reference
Only in the evenings they talked freely sitting together on the stoep of the homestead. From Wordnik.com. [The Sound of Thunder]
He led her to the door and out on to the front stoep with his arm around her shoulders. From Wordnik.com. [The Sound of Thunder]
Witwatersrand police said a beggar approached the woman while she was sweeping her stoep. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
Gardens when they spotted President Mandela addressing journalists from the Tuynhuys stoep. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
"Moorer, Missis!" he said, with a pull of his cap and a swift respectful glance at the stoep. From Wordnik.com. [Blue Aloes Stories of South Africa] Reference
The door was always shut, and the windows hidden by the heavy creeper that covered in the stoep. From Wordnik.com. [Blue Aloes Stories of South Africa] Reference
Merely by reason of age and experience he was excluded from the evening discussions on the stoep. From Wordnik.com. [The Sound of Thunder]
"He just left the body outside on the stoep and wore the watch the very next day," Labuschagne said. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
Presently the farm workers began to come from their huts and file past the stoep towards the outhouses. From Wordnik.com. [Blue Aloes Stories of South Africa] Reference
South African pattern, with the invariable half-stoep, half-verandah running half-way along their fronts. From Wordnik.com. [The Second Battalion Royal Dublin Fusiliers in the South African War With a Description of the Operations in the Aden Hinterland] Reference
Some four hours later, Antony, once more in his deck-chair on the stoep, set himself to review the situation. From Wordnik.com. [Antony Gray,—Gardener] Reference
As they slouched warily round the house and came in view of the stoep she emitted a staccato whistle of dismay. From Wordnik.com. [Blue Aloes Stories of South Africa] Reference
She sat on a neighbour's stoep, making notes in an exercise book on what she was seeing as the marchers streamed past. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
Josephus lapped, greedily, thirstily, till the empty saucer circled on the stoep under the onslaughts of his small pink tongue. From Wordnik.com. [Antony Gray,—Gardener] Reference
A dread of seeing the sad, disfigured creature seized her now, as she reached the darkened stoep, and held her back for a moment. From Wordnik.com. [Blue Aloes Stories of South Africa] Reference
A Boer farmer, sitting on his stoep, large and strong, but absolutely lethargic, is the very incarnation of the spirit of the veldt. From Wordnik.com. [With Rimington] Reference
Behind her the snow-white wall of the house, sparkling in the red rays of the setting sun; at her feet only the white slate of the stoep. From Wordnik.com. [Campaign Pictures of the War in South Africa (1899-1900) Letters from the Front] Reference
Street home at 2. 50pm after a friend found Jason's bloody body on the stoep. From Wordnik.com. [IOL: News] Reference
In the old houses the stoep is merely an uncovered terrace on which the house stands. From Wordnik.com. [Here, There and Everywhere] Reference
My friend had 700l. in gold in a carpet bag, without a lock, lying about on the stoep. From Wordnik.com. [Letters from the Cape] Reference
I got up and sat in the verandah over the stoep (a kind of terrace in front of every house here). From Wordnik.com. [Letters from the Cape] Reference
He threw himself from his horse and found Boyce, sitting on the stoep with his head in his hands. From Wordnik.com. [The Red Planet] Reference
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