spring-house

The rattlesnakes could take the spring-house, for all he cared—he had already removed his whiskey jug.

The Lonesome Dove Series Larry McMurtry 1995

The rattlesnakes could take the spring-house, for all he cared—he had already removed his whiskey jug.

Lonesome Dove Larry McMurtry 1985

Abram used to say that if I started to the spring-house, I'd go by way o 'the front porch and the front yard and the back porch and the back yard and the flower gyarden and the vegetable gyarden to git there.

Aunt Jane of Kentucky Eliza Calvert Hall

She come into de kitchen one time where I was helpin 'git de dinner ready an' de cook had gone to de spring-house, an 'she says:

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Sam'd killed chickens the night before, 'says she,' and they was all dressed and ready, down in the spring-house; and the vegetables was right there on the back porch, but I never touched 'em, 'says she.

Aunt Jane of Kentucky Eliza Calvert Hall

The old stone house in front, the spring-house in a green little hollow just below it, the walled garden, with its clumps of box and lilac, and the vast barn on the left, all joined in expressing a silent welcome to their owner, as he drove up the lane.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 57, July, 1862 Various

Likewise, the spring-house door suddenly opened and out popped a funny, little old lady.

Buffalo Roost F. H. Cheley

It was this: There was a certain cave (originally a spring-house) behind the walnut trees, quite covered over with trumpet-vines and partridge-berries.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 25, April, 1873 Various

It was nothing to him but a deserted spring-house.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 28, July, 1873 Various

Then he carries the cans to the spring-house where it is cool, and leaves them overnight by the well.

Seven O'Clock Stories Robert Gordon Anderson