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‘Hereupon she resolutely stept into Mrs. Sinclair’s parlour in the back-house; where were the old devil and her two partners; and demanded the key of the street-door, or to have it opened for her.
Clarissa Harlowe 2006
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Althea returned from a trip to the back-house to find Amber spilling the last of the brandy into two small glasses.
The Mad Ship Hobb, Robin 1999
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Apparent names of heathen gods and goddesses are almost always due to folk-etymology, e.g. Bacchus is for back-house or bake-house, and the ancestors of Mr. Wegg's friend Venus came from
The Romance of Names Ernest Weekley 1909
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'Hereupon she resolutely stept into Mrs. Sinclair's parlour in the back-house; where were the old devil and her two partners; and demanded the key of the street-door, or to have it opened for her.
Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 6 Samuel Richardson 1725
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We are back in Memphis in our little back-house, and at this point, I still believe I have become Mrs. Cleaver.
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We are back in Memphis in our little back-house, and at this point, I still believe I have become Mrs. Cleaver.
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But, upon their leaving me, I told him, (who seemed inclinable to begin a conversation with me,) that I desired that this apartment might be considered as my retirement: that when I saw him it might be in the dining-room, (which is up a few stairs; for this back-house, being once two, the rooms do not all of them very conveniently communicate with each other,) and that I might be as little broken in upon as possible, when I am here.
Clarissa Harlowe 2006
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