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
“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
Mr Budd's summerhouse roof had been blown four houses down the street and landed in Trev Harris's garden after striking his conservatory and roof.
From BBC ● Jan. 14, 2015
Her summerhouse catches fire, but the fire is static and unsmoking.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 2, 2012
The lawn climbs a slope se_veral yards in front of the summerhouse, and in those days, as today, four flagstones embedded into the grass served as steps by which to negotiate this climb.
From "The Remains of the Day" by Kazuo Ishiguro
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
His fancy peopled the shaded walks and summerhouses, which were scattered about it, with the joyous throng of gallant knights and stately ladies, enjoying themselves with mirth and song.
From The Banished A Swabian Historical Tale. In Three Volumes. by Wilhelm Hauff
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
For the gardens, sometimes called "hortyards," there were summerhouses, greenhouses, and arbors.
From Virginia Architecture in the Seventeenth Century by Henry Chandlee Forman
