summerhouse
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This memoir affords a peek into the life of a man who seems to arrive at a different summerhouse, packed with good art and faded first editions of novels, in each chapter.
From New York Times ● Dec. 9, 2019
Famously, Thomas Mann, the Nobel prize-winning German author of The Magic Mountain, had a summerhouse here where he’d holiday with his family in the early 1930s.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 11, 2018
“When I first got married, my wife wanted a summerhouse and I wanted a Swan—I bought the Swan first,” says Ferragamo, who visits the yard every two or three months.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2015
Its trail takes in the poet's favourite drinking establishments, the summerhouse, and the village that became his home.
From BBC ● Nov. 21, 2014
Theodora and Eleanor and Luke explored the tangled thicket behind the house and found the little summerhouse, while the doctor sat on the wide lawn, writing, within sight and hearing.
From "The Haunting of Hill House" by Shirley Jackson
The grottoes of the superior garden are here replaced by light ranges of arched summerhouses, designed in stucco, and occasionally adorned in their interior with fresco paintings of considerable brightness and beauty.
From The Poetry of Architecture Or, the Architecture of the Nations of Europe Considered in its Association with Natural Scenery and National Character by John Ruskin
Passing again to the front of the house, Lecour saw the mob angrily tearing up garden benches and summerhouses for the same purpose.
From The False Chevalier or, The Lifeguard of Marie Antoinette by W. D. (William Douw) Lighthall
Nothing but summerhouses on a large scale are the South California barns.
From Ramona by Helen Hunt Jackson
In 1621, and in 1624, he repeated his visit, when he built many summerhouses and palaces at Atchabull, Shalimar, &c., and in A.D.
From Diary of a Pedestrian in Cashmere and Thibet by William Henry Knight
In every town there stood "scaffolding" or raised platforms, where the inhabitants frequently sat and conversed, and which served somewhat the same purpose as our own outdoor summerhouses of olden times.
From Virginia Architecture in the Seventeenth Century by Henry Chandlee Forman
