They remind one of the East Indian country houses that are built on posts, so as to allow a free circulation of air beneath the foundation.

So many Americans and English too are imbued with the idea that there are no chateaux, no country life in France, that I am delighted when they can see that there are just as many as in any other country.

Yet Sir Andrew was no "country gentleman"; his favourite recreation was books.

I have heard that there is an old story, told amongst the country people, to the effect that the devil built the place.

It also settled another difficult questionwhat to buy in a small country town.

A woman adjusts her stocking on the coping below the fence with the freedom of a country road.

It was getting colder (all the country folk predicted a very cold winter) and the wood-fire looked very cheerful and comfortable in my little salon when we came in.

We went over the Chateau of Babelsberg, which is a pretty Gothic country-seat, not a palace, and belongs to the present Emperor.

To build up its health, he buys a country place and a good cow.

Unfortunately before she could quite realize what she was looking atand we may imagine that a country girl would take some little time to grasp so unusual a situationa cloud drifted across the moon and threw the tower into shadow.

Some he solaced with a gun, a pistol, or such object as he knew was dear to the country boy's heart.

In a very remote country village where life seems to go slowly, and days are long, children should be encouraged, by means of the school influence, to make things that absorb thought and interest, to tell and hear stories.

Which of us in the country districts does not remember the blue emergency suits, of which a co-operative society was able by a lucky stroke to provide 400,000 for the new recruits?or the other motley coverings of the hosts that drilled in our fields and marched about our lanes?

Several scattered country churches might unite for these services.

Like a bird freed from its cage, she flew about here, there, everywhere, in-doors and out, among the chickens and the pigs, the turkeys and the lambs, enjoying to the full the thousand new things that her eyes rested upon all around her, and her young spirits in wild commotion under the bracing influences of the country air.

She is a more or less ignorant, unsophisticated country-woman, and what she had seen she was quite unable to account for.

Riversdale is a far truer type of the Catholic country squire of the old school than the somewhat morbid and impossible Helbeck of Bannisdale.

In country schools of the older type the accommodation is not so good, but the newer ones are often very attractive in appearance, and have both space and light.

He is a mode of a country parson, lean (as a curate ought to be), modest, sensible, no obtruder of church dogmas, quite a different man from Southey.

I should be as scandalized at a bon-mot issuing from his oracle-looking mouth as to see Cato go down a country-dance.

Kent House is still the name of his quarters in the town as well as of his country residence at Montmorency Falls seven miles away, while the only new opening ever made in the walls is called Kent Gate.

An astonishing proportion of the students in our colleges come from country homes, in which they have learned to desire collegiate experience; from country schools, where they have received the preparation necessary to pass the required college entrance examinations.

Hot coffee had done much for her drooping courage; the escapade, even this going at eight o'clock in the morning into a country store with a man, and on money borrowed from the man, was an experience to put the gay note of adventure back into the affair.

"I hope you will not regret having made this effort to aid us, and, if it so be an opportunity ever offers, I will see to it that, so far as is within my power, the Minute Boys of the Mohawk Valley shall receive substantial credit from their country-men because of services rendered.

I have seen a country-clergyman, with a one-story intellect and a one-horse vocabulary, who has consumed his valuable time (and mine) freely, in developing an opinion of a brother-minister's discourse which would have been abundantly characterized by a peach-down-lipped sophomore in the one wordslow.