Sentence examples for backhouse from inspiring English sources

Backhouse knew full well European stereotypes of China — as an exotic, and erotic, fantasy world of empresses and opium smoke — and he gave his readers exactly what they wanted.

She was born in Littleborough, Lancashire (now in Greater Manchester), the daughter of Alice (nee Backhouse) and Norman Pickup.

The backhouse has a sizable kitchen (by Manhattan standards), which occupies a corner of its open-plan first floor.

Other owners may have built a new backhouse just to get the lucrative immigrant rents.

They are unsure of the building's origins -- as many backhouse owners are -- but their guess is that it and its identical neighbor were put up as housing for workers on the Jones farm or as a workshop for a journeyman.

YET it was a movement to protect the poor that eventually killed the backhouse.

Raised on the estate of the Backhouses, the Darlington bankers, where her mother was housekeeper and her father coachman, May had access to their library, and thanks to this, Harry benefited from a pre-school education.

The Village's backhouses have diverse histories.

In backhouses that have been converted to multifamily dwellings, however, the rents are comparable to those elsewhere downtown.

Consequently, backhouses did not exist in poorer neighborhoods -- giving up the service space was a luxury affordable only to those who had extra room indoors.

She noted that single-family backhouses usually rent to couples or singles, for $4,000 to $7,000 a month.