Meaning of farm-house | Babel Free

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Dated form of farmhouse.

alt-of, dated

Examples

“[…] and ſo as they were extremely diſtreſſed in their circumſtances, my Lord lent them one of his farm-houſes juſt to ſave their paying rent⟳: […]”

“It is not a scrambling collection of low single rooms, with as many roofs as windows—it is not cramped into the vulgar compactness of a square farm-house—it is a solid walled, roomy, mansion-like looking house, such as one might suppose⟳ a respectable old country family had lived in from generation to generation, through two centuries at least, and were now spending from two to three thousand a year in.”

“Thence I proceeded in a coachee to Trenton, distant thirty miles from Philadelphia. On the road we passed an ordinary looking farm-house, which was pointed out to me as the birth-place of Major General Jacob Brown, […]”

“Ye may hear⟳ him, on a lown day, at every farm-house in the parish.”

“AMPERSAND, s. the character &, representing the conjunction and. V. n. g.—A per se A. This is and per se and; by a little smoothing and elision in pronunciation, becoming Ampersand. “The expression,” says the learned author referred to, “is not yet forgotten in the nursery.” No; nor far beyond the nursery. It is remembered and used in the village-school, in the cottage, the shop⟳, and the farm-house.”

“The harvestmen who board⟳ in the farm-houses fare sumptuously during the month of harvest⟳.”

“From college to the farm-house where I dwelt I took my books, friends who are never cold, With fragile instruments of chemistry, And cabinets of mineral and rock With limestone encrinites; asterias Old as the mountains, or the sea's white lash Wherewith he smites the shoulders of the shore; Tarentula and scarabee I brought, And, too, I brought my diamond microscope Which magnifies a pin's head to a man's, And gives me sights in water and in air The naturalists have⟳ not yet touched upon.”

“We then did a house at Mowhaugh, and a farm-house at Stodrig, and a part of an onstead. I did the wrightwork of a house at Bemersyde, and an onstead at Butchercote.”

“The red-painted farm-houses, peculiar to Norway, lay⟳ picturesquely scattered on the higher points of the undulating valley, where men and women were busy hay-making.”

“For she was sitting on the broad Kansas prairie, and just before her was the new farm-house Uncle Henry built after the cyclone had carried away the old one.”

“And at that moment, from a farm-house near came the swift clang of the breakfast bell, calling in the hands from barn and pasture.”

“Suitably dressed, and armed with home-made triangular step-ladders, baskets with hooks on them so that we can hang⟳ them from the pergole (wine trellises) while we cut⟳ the grapes with scissors, secateurs or knives, all of which become⟳ equally painful to use⟳ after a day or two, we turn⟳ up at the right farm-house about seven-thirty.”

“I had intended, from Novgorod, a visit⟳ to Mr. Glenny, at his establishment, eight miles distant, on the banks of the Veshora. Not finding him, however, I put⟳ up at a farm-house for the night, having previously drunk kuass at a convent, paid a rouble for charity, and received a blessing upon entering Muscovy – not without a hope⟳ that I should find⟳ better treatment here than in Esthonia.”

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