kitchen-yard

Nevertheless he slept and was gently awoken for the last time to the familiar scent of china tea on his bed table, the thin bread and butter, the curtains drawn above the luggage porch, the sunlit kitchen-yard and the stable clock just visible behind the cut-leaf copper beech.

The Complete Stories Waugh, Evelyn 1998

He crossed the kitchen-yard with long, easy strides.

If You Touch Them They Vanish Gouverneur Morris 1914

Boards, covered with straw, were the base of the mighty pyramid of corn in the open space between the kitchen-yard and the stables.

Marion Harland's autobiography : the story of a long life, 1910

Your kitchen-yard should be laid out with neat sand or gravel-walks, and grass-plots, with rose-bushes and vines by the fences and piazzas, so that your dwelling may be surrounded on all sides with these cheering objects, -- they elevate the soul, especially when they are glittering with morning dew.

The Young Housewife's Counsellor and Friend: Containing Directions in Every Department of Housekeeping. Including the Duties of Wife and Mother 1875

This gentleman ran about in the kitchen-yard with queer little brass utensils, wherein he concocted sundry diabolical preparations -- as they seemed to the English servants to be, -- of herbs, rice, curry powder, etc., etc., for the repast of his mistress.

The Humbugs of the World An Account of Humbugs, Delusions, Impositions, Quackeries, Deceits and Deceivers Generally, in All Ages 1850

At length he turned into the kitchen-yard, and, addressing a laborer whom he met, asked --

Fardorougha, The Miser The Works of William Carleton, Volume One William Carleton 1831

As he approached the hall-door, however, he met Nanny crossing into the kitchen-yard, and from the timid and hesitating glance she cast at him, some vague suspicion again occurred, and he resolved to enter into further conversation with her.

The Emigrants Of Ahadarra The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two William Carleton 1831