potting-shed

True, 'twas only gossip that she and Bertie had been at grips in a potting-shed at Windsor in '59, when I was off in Maryland helping to start the Yankees' civil war, but I'd seen him ogling her on and off ever since.

Watershed 2010

True, 'twas only gossip that she and Bertie had been at grips in a potting-shed at Windsor in '59, when I was off in Maryland helping to start the Yankees' civil war, but I'd seen him ogling her on and off ever since.

Flashman And The Tiger Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1999

Having screwed the thing up in my hand, I was immediately faced with the problem of disposing of it and I walked to the corner of the garden where I had noticed a compost heap and bonfire behind some wattle fencing: there was a potting-shed as well.

Crime On the Coast Carr, John Dickson 1984

I had done the second hole (from the vegetable-marrow frame to the mulberry-tree) in two, and was about to proceed to the third hole by the potting-shed when I thought I would go in and convey the glad news to

Punch or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, November 11, 1914 Various

In the tool-shed, the potting-shed, the wood-shed, the stoke-hole, the fruit-room, the vegetable-cellar, or in some other out-building he can surely find a corner; or, handier still, convenient room under the greenhouse benches, where he can make some beds.

Mushrooms: how to grow them a practical treatise on mushroom culture for profit and pleasure William Falconer

All the refuse turf and leaf-mould from the potting-shed and the soil knocked out of pots may be usefully disposed of by adding it to this border, which cannot be too light or too rich, and a good dressing of manure will give it strength to perform its duties.

The Culture of Vegetables and Flowers From Seeds and Roots 16th Edition Sutton and Sons

A few days after Tom had shown his cousins his collection of birds 'eggs, Jack, as he was coming away from a visit to Lion, passed by the end of the potting-shed.

Woodside or, Look, Listen, and Learn. Caroline Hadley

The potting-shed means more to them than the parterre.

Try Anything Twice 1938

She explored the potting-shed, where the tools were in good order, and found a pair of scissors, armed with which she made an assault upon the long trail of vine-leaves and the rigid bronze sheaves of the chrysanthemums.

Busman's Honeymoon Sayers, Dorothy L. 1937

Gustave, the husband whose love she would never know, perished at an early hour on the morning of her arrival, at an adversary's sword-point behind a potting-shed near the Petit Trianon.

Terribly Intimate Portraits Noel Coward 1936