Sentence examples for humble cottage from inspiring English sources
He lives in a humble cottage, drives himself to work in a Volkswagen Beetle and flies economy class.
In the course of a posthumous search of Olive's humble cottage, I came upon a second artifact as significant in its way as the white hide suitcase, and as poignant.
It stars John Wayne as Sean Thornton, a big-shouldered American who leaves Pittsburgh for his native Innisfree, where he seeks and buys the "wee humble cottage" where he was born.
It stars John Wayne as Sean Thornton, a big-shouldered American who leaves Pittsburgh for his native Innisfree, where he buys the "wee humble cottage" where he was born.
The next thing you know she's riding, swimming, dancing with Mr. Brown at parties and going for dinner at his humble friends' humble cottage, where she even sets the table.
Since the town is without electricity for street lamps or even a humble cottage light bulb, the evening gloom swallows up the smoky haze of wood stoves, the rotting tile roofs patched with yellow thatch, and the red propaganda signs covered in years of dust.
The secret of Martina Franca, the Italian art historian Cesare Brandi said, is that its Baroque design contains no grand palazzi, just humble cottages and streets as narrow as the crooked back alleys of Genoa or Venice.
Those who linger in Brunswick can discover a shabbier, smaller version of Savannah, where Queen Anne homes clustered around live-oak-shaded squares suggest a genteel history -- a sharp contrast to the boxy luxury condos rapidly replacing the humbler cottages, made of a shell-and-cement material called tabby, that were once common on St. Simons.
That humble little cottage you saw in Elle Décor?
After dinner, walk to At Random (2501 South Delaware, 414-481-8030), a frozen drink emporium in what looks like a humble clapboard cottage.
Built on the west shore of Lake Placid in 1882 as a humble lake cottage, the Lake Placid Lodge, (518) 523-2700, fax (518) 523-1124, www.lakeplacidlodge.com, is today a refurbished luxury hotel, part of the Relais & Châteaux group.
