"Outbuilding" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... chatting, and presently she said, 'Madam Chew, Mr. Warder is to show me where the troops lay, and Mr. Wayne's brigade; and who will come too?' There were volunteers, but once outside they found it cold, and Darthea, saying, 'We shall be gone but a minute,' walked with me around the stone outbuilding to northwest. She was very thoughtful and quiet this night, looking as sweet as ever a woman could in a gray fur coat against the moon-lit drifts of snow. 'Over there,' I said, 'across the road, were our poor little four-pounders; and beyond yonder wall our chief ...
— Hugh Wynne, Free Quaker • S. Weir Mitchell
... quaking, and this time in a cloud of dust an outbuilding jumped and tumbled asunder. A horse streaked down the street with trailing halter. Round the corner scurried the niggers: the next was due ...
— From Capetown to Ladysmith - An Unfinished Record of the South African War • G. W. Steevens
... a slab outbuilding, before which one of the troopers was keeping guard, with a loaded carbine, and, the Sergeant coming ...
— The Recollections of Geoffrey Hamlyn • Henry Kingsley
... subsist on a mere fraction of that amount. I have no doubt that a crow or hawk, when in his fall condition, would live two weeks without a morsel of food passing his beak; a domestic fowl will do as much. One January I unwittingly shut a hen under the door of an outbuilding, where not a particle of food could be obtained, and where she was entirely unprotected from the severe cold. When the luckless Dominick was discovered, about eighteen days afterward, she was brisk and lively, but fearfully pinched up, and as ...
— Wake-Robin • John Burroughs |
