summerhouse

Example Sentences

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She wore Poiret gowns, opened galleries, lent Djuna Barnes the summerhouse where she wrote “Nightwood.”

From New York Times • Jul. 16, 2019

“When I first got married, my wife wanted a summerhouse and I wanted a Swan—I bought the Swan first,” says Ferragamo, who visits the yard every two or three months.

From The Wall Street Journal • Sep. 3, 2015

Introduced as an "entertaining guest" by a mutual friend, he had succeeded in charming Mrs Taylor, who put the family up in a summerhouse in their garden in the grounds of Magdalen College.

From BBC • Nov. 21, 2014

Her summerhouse catches fire, but the fire is static and unsmoking.

From The Guardian • Aug. 2, 2012

It was afternoon, and she sat in the sunlight on the steps of the summerhouse beside Luke; these are the silent pathways of the heart, she thought.

From "The Haunting of Hill House" by Shirley Jackson