dower-house

Pomona, looking forward as well as she was able to the time at which she should herself have departed, when her dower and dower-house would have reverted to Dolly, acknowledged that

The Way We Live Now 2004

Lodge, which he would make the dower-house of Five Oaks, with the

Wylder's Hand 2003

The dower-house of the Benyon family stood in a street which was merely an extension of Orchard Street, and could be seen from Mrs. Caldwell's windows.

The Beth Book Being a Study of the Life of Elizabeth Caldwell Maclure, a Woman of Genius Sarah Grand

On the other side of the road, in the same row as the Benyon dower-house, but well within sight of the window, was the

The Beth Book Being a Study of the Life of Elizabeth Caldwell Maclure, a Woman of Genius Sarah Grand

John did not live on the best of terms with his mother-in-law, who from the dower-house at Kralove Hradec, called by the

From a Terrace in Prague Lieut.-Col. B. Granville Baker

“Winton is the dower-house, of course,” murmured Miss Prentice.

Overture to Death Marsh, Ngaio, 1895-1982 1939

I must delay no longer in introducing this most important member of the family, my mother's mother, with whom we lived, for the old Quimper hôtel was her dower-house.

A Childhood in Brittany Eighty Years Ago 1919

Not that Father was sure just what a dower-house was, but he was quite definite and positive about the rose-covering.

The Innocents A Story for Lovers Sinclair Lewis 1918

There would be a mystery in the house -- a walled-off room, a sound of voices at night in dark corridors where no voices could possibly be, a hidden tragedy, and at last Father and Mother would lift the burden from the place, and end their days in the rose-covered dower-house ....

The Innocents A Story for Lovers Sinclair Lewis 1918

The old dower-house of Fawsley, not many miles to the north-east of Broughton, in the adjoining county of Northamptonshire, had

Secret Chambers and Hiding Places Historic, Romantic, & Legendary Stories & Traditions About Hiding-Holes, Secret Chambers, Etc. Allan Fea 1908