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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

  • 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

  • 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

  • '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

  • We are back in Memphis in our little back-house, and at this point, I still believe I have become Mrs. Cleaver.

    Memphis Commercial Appeal Stories 2009

  • We are back in Memphis in our little back-house, and at this point, I still believe I have become Mrs. Cleaver.

    Memphis Commercial Appeal Stories 2009

  • 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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