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Examples
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The floor plan is based on the needs of a traditional countryhouse.
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House Tsai is a countryhouse designed for two young art collectors.
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Momakeeah is a countryhouse belonging to the Bey, to whom, also, belongs a great portion of the land around.
Travels in Morocco 2003
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Wales set the fashion by receiving in her boudoir at some countryhouse in a very becoming "tea gown," which every lady knows to be the most luxurious change from the tight riding-habit or carriage-dress.
Manners and Social Usages Mrs. John M. E. W. Sherwood
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In an opulent countryhouse, if the day is fine, little tables are set out on the lawn, the ladies seat themselves around, and the gentlemen carry the refreshments to them; or the piazzas are beautifully decorated with autumn boughs and ferns, flowers, evergreens, and the refreshments are served there.
Manners and Social Usages Mrs. John M. E. W. Sherwood
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Grey [Footnote: Viscount Grey of Fallodon.] when he asked her the same question, walking in the garden at Fallodon on the occasion of her first countryhouse visit:
Margot Asquith, an Autobiography - Two Volumes in One Margot Asquith 1904
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I went to meet her, and brought her to my countryhouse, in such a way that she was not seen or known of anybody.
Autobiography of Madame Guyon Guyon, Jeanne Marie Bouvier de La Motte, 1648-1717 1880
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Choose your residence from among them, and leave me in peaceable possession of the one modest countryhouse I have inherited in my native land.
Ishmael In the Depths Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth 1859
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The new Discworld novel from the master sees Sam Vimes investigating a countryhouse murder, and is Terry Pratchett's fiftieth book.
unknown title 2011
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The new Discworld novel from the master sees Sam Vimes investigating a countryhouse murder, and is Terry Pratchett's fiftieth book.
unknown title 2011
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