dovecot

Peeping out, I saw that between me and the dovecot was a piece of bare cobbled ground, where no footmarks would show.

The Thirty-Nine Steps 2005

Peeping out, I saw that between me and the dovecot was a piece of bare cobbled ground, where no footmarks would show.

The Adventure of the Bald Archaeologist 1915

Peeping out, I saw that between me and the dovecot was a piece of bare cobbled ground, where no foot marks would allow.

The Thirty-Nine Steps 1915

Peeping out, I saw that between me and the dovecot was a piece of bare cobbled ground, where no footmarks would show.

The Thirty-Nine Steps John Buchan 1907

His father and mother incidentally taught him as much as Mr. Ready: his love of painting and music was fostered, indirectly: and in the 'dovecot' bookshelf above the fireplace in his bedroom, were the precious volumes within whose sway and magic was his truest life.

Life of Robert Browning Sharp, William, 1855-1905 1897

His father and mother incidentally taught him as much as Mr. Ready: his love of painting and music was fostered, indirectly: and in the 'dovecot' bookshelf above the fireplace in his bedroom, were the precious volumes within whose sway and magic was his truest life.

Life of Robert Browning William Sharp 1880

In Hewelsfield churchyard further down the green lane, I squeezed inside the hollow of the thousand-year-old yew and looked up into the lantern of its twisted trunk, illuminated like the inside of a dovecot through the perforations where long-dead boughs once emerged.

Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009

In Hewelsfield churchyard further down the green lane, I squeezed inside the hollow of the thousand-year-old yew and looked up into the lantern of its twisted trunk, illuminated like the inside of a dovecot through the perforations where long-dead boughs once emerged.

Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009

The little watering-place has returned to its primitive obscurity; and lions and lionesses, with their several jackals, blue surtouts, and bluer stockings, fiddlers and dancers, painters and amateurs, authors and critics, dispersed like pigeons by the demolition of a dovecot, have sought other scenes of amusement and rehearsal, and have deserted ST.

Saint Ronan's Well 2008

Perchance, with a dovecot in the centre, and fowls peeking about — with fair elm trees, then, where discoloured chimney-stacks and gables are now — noisy, then, with rooks which have yielded to a different sort of rookery.

Reprinted Pieces 2007