front-garden

Sarah was looking out of the mill-house window when she saw the car drive up to the big gates of the little front-garden.

Sarah's School Friend May Baldwin

The animals looked rather tired but settled down contentedly in the front-garden of No. 3.

Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 159, 1920-09-29 Various

"This is flower-bed mud from the house front-garden."

The Politeness of Princes and Other School Stories 1928

Mary Anne's cousin deserted into our coal-hole, and was brought out, to our great amazement, by a piquet of his companions in arms, who took him away handcuffed in a procession that covered our front-garden with ignominy.

David Copperfield Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 1917

This morning at five o'clock, when I opened my window, the room was filled with the fragrance of the flowers growing in the modest little front-garden.

A Hero of Our Time 1916

He stalks up the front-garden and the steep steps of the semi-detached villa, and plies the ornamental knocker so imperiously that the panels of imitation stained glass quiver in the thin front-door.

Zuleika Dobson, or, an Oxford love story Max Beerbohm 1914

Those were its windows, on the second-floor, looking out upon the front-garden; the big dormer-window above was his bedroom, from which he had his grand view of lowland, and far horizon, and unconfined sky, comparatively clear of London smoke.

The Life of John Ruskin Collingwood, W G 1911

He stalks up the front-garden and the steep steps of the semi-detached villa, and plies the ornamental knocker so imperiously that the panels of imitation stained glass quiver in the thin front-door.

Zuleika Dobson 1911

Bittlesea was dull to aching point; a shirt-sleeved householder or two sat in his fragrant front-garden smoking, and a murmur of voices and shag tobacco floated out from tavern doorways.

A Master Of Craft 1903

Now she rose out of the Convent dug-out, in the waste that had been the railway-official's front-garden, like a fair white Psyche-statue, delivered in the course of some convulsion of Nature from the matrix of the earth.

The Dop Doctor Richard Dehan 1897