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Origin of oast-house
First recorded in 1755–65
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She would, like her authoress, buy a Sussex oast-house, settle down to wait there until Mr. Fry came back to Sussex for keeps.
From Time Magazine Archive
Here there is always a deep coombe, or the top of a wood underneath, or a rising slope, or a distant ridge crowned with red-tiled farmstead, red-coned oast-house, and tall spruce firs.
From Field and Hedgerow Being the Last Essays of Richard Jefferies by Jefferies, Richard
A broad, white road; on either hand some half-dozen cottages with roofs of thatch or red tile, backed by trees gnarled and ancient, among which rises the red conical roof of some oast-house.
From The Broad Highway by Farnol, Jeffery
As he closed the shutter, the oast-house seemed dark before the day’s end, and he lit the candle in the lanthorn.
From Puck of Pook’s Hill by Rackham, Arthur
As we drew up at the fatal corner, the others came out of the oast-house to see what was making the noise.
From Berry And Co. by Yates, Dornford
A hop-garden was one of the sights connected with Philip's boyhood and the oast-houses to him the most typical feature of the Kentish scene.
From Of Human Bondage by Maugham, W. Somerset (William Somerset)
Between the streams trickling down he began to catch green vistas of hops with their quaint, peaked oast-houses like the caps worn by hob-goblins from the pages of a fairy book.
From The Man with the Double Heart by Hine, Muriel
The farmers have been drying their damp wheat in the oast-houses over charcoal fires, and wages are lowered, and men discharged.
From Field and Hedgerow Being the Last Essays of Richard Jefferies by Jefferies, Richard
Then, on the other side of the moat there is the farm, with barns and oast-houses and stables, or things like that.
From The Wouldbegoods by Nesbit, E. (Edith)
A little gabled, red-roofed house at the foot of some Sussex down, with fruit trees and a high hedge round it, and only the oast-houses peeping over.
From Australia Felix by Richardson, Henry Handel
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