Next to the kitchen, and communicating with it by a door, was an outhouse; used, partly as a scullery, partly as a lumber-room.
Rook took his knapsack into the outhouse; and arranged on the table his appliances for the toilet--contained in a leather roll, and including a razor--ready for use in the morning.
Having previously barred the second door of the outhouse, which led into the yard, Mr.
Receiving no answer, after repeatedly knocking, he opened the door and stepped into the outhouse.
Tess, being left alone with the younger children, went first to the
outhouse with the fortune-telling book, and stuffed it into the thatch.
When they reached the
outhouse they found the door open.
The
outhouse was the simplest of dwellings, wooden-walled, shingle-roofed, one window beside the door and one on the farther side.
He got his food at the back door, carried it in both hands carefully to his
outhouse, and, sitting alone on his pallet, would make the sign of the cross before he began.
It is likely enough that in the rough
outhouses of some tillers of the heavy lands adjacent to Paris, there were sheltered from the weather that very day, rude carts, bespattered with rustic mire, snuffed about by pigs, and roosted in by poultry, which the Farmer, Death, had already set apart to be his tumbrils of the Revolution.
At the right-hand side, on entering by the front-door, there was a kitchen, with its
outhouses attached.
In the District of Minas alone, there were destroyed two hundred and fifty-five houses, two hundred and seventy-six barns, one hundred and fifty-five
outhouses, eleven mills, and one church; and the friends of those who refused to surrender were threatened as the victims of their obstinacy.
"When I had more control I did what I could: sold off the two and a half animals, and the mangy pony, and the superannuated tools; pulled down the
outhouses; drained; thinned out I don't know how many guelder-roses and elder-trees; and inside the house I turned the old kitchen into a hall, and made a kitchen behind where the dairy was.
A giant Negro lifted her to the pommel of his saddle, and while the raiders searched the bungalow and
outhouses for plunder he rode with her beyond the gates and waited the coming of his master.
Some slept in the stable and
outhouses, some in the common room, some two or three in beds.
The homestead consisted of a threshing floor,
outhouses, stables, a bathhouse, a lodge, and a large brick house with semicircular facade still in course of construction.
