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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
The road which we were using ran at right angles into a better-class way by the side of an old oast-house.
From Berry And Co. by Dornford Yates
There is an air redolent of ripening fruit, and hops, for Dapplemere is a place of orchards, and hop-gardens, and rick-yards, while, here and there, the sharp-pointed, red-tiled roof of some oast-house pierces the green.
From The Money Moon A Romance by Jeffery Farnol
It isn’t the same kind as we saw in old Dawson’s oast-house.
From Burr Junior by H. C. (Harold C.) Earnshaw
Calling-off time depended on the state of the oast-house.
From Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset (William Somerset) Maugham
Then the green hops are carted off in "pokes" or sacks to the "oast-houses" to be dried.
From A Week's Tramp in Dickens-Land by William R. (William Richard) Hughes
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 W. Somerset (William Somerset) Maugham
The Orlestone sketch represents a type of vane practically never to be met with, save on the oast-houses in the hop-growing districts of Kent.
From The Strand Magazine, Volume V, Issue 28, April 1893 An Illustrated Monthly by George Newnes
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 Muriel Hine
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 Henry Handel Richardson
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