When I had grown to sufficient size, I was required to go to the "big house" at meal-times to fan the flies from the table by means of a large set of paper fans operated by a pulley.
The sorrow in the slave quarter was only second to that in the "big house." When the two young masters were brought home wounded, the sympathy of the slaves was shown in many ways.
In the fear of "Yankee" invasions, the silverware and other valuables were taken from the "big house," buried in the woods, and guarded by trusted slaves.
Gradually, one by one, stealthily at first, the older slaves began to wander from the slave quarters back to the "big house" to have a whispered conversation with their former owners as to the future.
At the end of a week the
big house full of beds was half empty.
His people were wealthy and titled, and he went home to England and sold cat's meat, sat around their
big house till they gave him more money to start a rubber plantation in the East Indies somewhere, on Sumatra, I think--or was it New Guinea?"
The butler in Miss de Barral's
big house had seen the news, perhaps earlier than anybody within a mile of the Parade, in the course of his morning duties of which one was to dry the freshly delivered paper before the fire--an occasion to glance at it which no intelligent man could have neglected.
I went through a shrubbery, and along a passage beside a
big house standing in its own grounds, and so emerged upon the road towards Kew.
As he had a smooth tongue and good manners, he really did very well in his new profession, and he devoted himself specially to making friends with the servants in
big houses, so as to gain access to their masters.
The same principles apply to living in a
big house. Just like a studio or room has different corners with different purposes, a house has many rooms that offer different experiences.
The
big house in the middle was where the warden lived and the bungalows were for old people.
OSSAA has played basketball tournaments at the Jim Norick Arena known by many as "The
Big House" for 54 years.
Now the
Big House was all our own, even though it was still coated in Granny's wallpaper, her white kitchen towels strewn out vaguely dirty-damp all over the place.
The '
Big House' clashes with seventh-placed Spiking Stars at Otse Police College on September 1 evening and then take on Yaros Olympic Club at the same place on September 2 morning.
In a rare interview with the NBA legend-turned sports analyst-turned-actor, who is appearing as Big Fella in the comedy "Uncle Drew," Shaq revealed to us, "If you follow patterns, when LeBron was in Cleveland, the year before he left, he bought this
big house in Miami.
