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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
Not for nothing had he watched the men thatching the oast-house by the Medway.
From Harding's luck by H. R. (Harold Robert) Millar
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
Dan and Una, who had been picking after their lessons, marched off to roast potatoes at the oast-house, where old Hobden, with Blue-eyed Bess, his lurcher-dog, lived all the month through, drying the hops.
From Puck of Pook’s Hill by Arthur Rackham
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 Richard Jefferies
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
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
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 Richard Jefferies
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 E. (Edith) Nesbit
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
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