24 Metaphors for cottage

The cottage was Andy's home, but the thought had no charm or sweetness for the lone orphan boy whom its roof had grudgingly sheltered for the past five years.

The Hathaway cottage is a large old-fashioned thatch-roofed buildingvery plain but very homely.

Throughout all England these cottages and gardens are the most interesting objects that the country presents, and they are particularly so in Kent and Sussex.

The Cottage which was named the EVENING STAR Is gonethe ploughshare has been through the ground On which it stood; great changes have been wrought

Spite of the perpetual shadow of the invalid's darkened room, spite of the inevitable circumscribing of narrow means, Parson Dorrance's cottage was the pleasantest house in the place, was the house to which all the townspeople took strangers with pride, and was the house which strangers never forgot.

" Crone's cottage was a mean, miserable shanty sort of place down a narrow alley in a poor part of the town.

I supposed the cottage to be the residence of some small family that had seen more of life than was customary with the mere husbandman, and yet not enough to raise it much above the level of the husbandman's homely habits.

Other cottages were hovels, through the broken roofs of which poured the rain, and wherein rheumatism and ague lived with the dwellers.

'I would have told you that the cottage was the rendezvous, but it was not decided upon until the last moment.

The humblest cottage, with four tiny square rooms and a thatched roof, and just a patch of old-fashioned garden with a sweetbrier hedge and roses growing here and there among the cabbages; would have been a pleasanter habitation than Wyncomb, Ellen Carley thought.

However Sally Migrundy's tiny cottage is just the same tiny cottage on the outside.

But it had dawned upon him that, however desirable it might be on a dry hill-side, on such a foundation as this a cottage was the worst form of human dwelling that could be built.

The little brown cottage at Cambridge, Pa., is the place to call to have the marriage-knot promptly and strongly tied.

The cottages, too, though in a few instances sadly deficient in sanitary improvements and internal comfort, are not only picturesque, but strong and lasting.

For I was suffered near to that extent, seem' that the cottage here had been my fathers', an' was mine,

A well-built cottage on the main, forward-going road that led from the gate to an inner stockade, was probably headquarters for the chief engineers.

He had guessed rightly, and this low white-walled cottage was really Captain Sedgewick's.

The cottage is a poor preparation even for the humblest middle-class home.

She was a cultivated, noble woman, and her little cottage was a gem of beauty and comfort, surrounded with beautiful gardens and a hedge of fish-geraniums over ten feet high, covered with scarlet flowers.

The cottages just outside the gates were small, new buildings; and once inside, you saw nothing but your own grounds.

The cottage was an old, black, timbered and thatched edifice, and had four rooms of considerable dimensions, two above and two below, with a porch in the front, overgrown with briony and another hardy creeper.

This cottage was the very beau idéal of rustic neatness and home comfort.

On this occasion Buzzby was the host, and Buzzby's cottage was the scene.

In quest of peace, I was driven at first into the loft of the inn, of which the cottage was a dependency.

24 Metaphors for  cottage