cottage
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The Dashwoods are forced to move into a sparse little cottage and make the best of their much-reduced income.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026
Olena Konoplia tells us she spent weeks looking for a suitable location before settling on a cottage in a rural community two hours outside the capital.
From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026
Today, a blue plaque on a cottage near the King's Arms pub marks the place where Hepburn lived between 1936 and 1939.
From BBC ● Oct. 4, 2026
She set off after midnight from her village in central Ukraine to reach Kyiv before dawn and sell milk, sour cream, butter and cottage cheese from her own cows.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 4, 2026
He spends every summer at his cottage in Nantucket, and this year Andre landed the sweet gig of supervising his spoiled cat for fifty dollars a day the whole time he’s away.
From "South of Somewhere" by Kalena Miller
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Around town, lined with winding streets and tan-colored stone cottages, locals speak highly of the American servicemen and women, even if their commander in chief gets negative reviews from some.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026
As well as offering interest-free deposit loans, Streets2Homes has nine bedrooms across two Victorian cottages in the town.
From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2026
If you want to go luxe, you can eat or sleep at the Farmhouse Inn, a 6-acre property on River Road that includes 25 rooms and cottages, a pool and spa amid lushly landscaped grounds.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026
Housing reforms that increase supply, such as allowing smaller lots in new subdivisions, permitting duplexes, townhomes, and backyard cottages on existing lots, and changing zoning laws to allow housing nearer to jobs, are land-use issues.
From Barron's ● Jun. 24, 2026
To that end, I dashed into an alley behind two rows of cottages, where it seemed there would be lots of hiding places, and made for the edge of town.
From "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children" by Ransom Riggs
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