rest-house

“You know, Michael, I feel I should be ever so much more interested if I ran a place of my own in the country — a sort of rest-house that I could make attractive for girls who wanted air and that.”

Swan Song 2004

Standing in sunshine before the hollyhocks and sunflowers of the “rest-house” garden, she reviewed past and future with feverish vigour.

Swan Song 2004

She began at once to learn to drive the car; for the “rest-house” must not be so near him as to excite suspicion.

Swan Song 2004

ASSIUT, Egypt - Suspected Moslem militants shot dead a policeman and wounded five others in an attack on a police rest-house in southern Egypt, police said.

ANC Daily News Briefing 1995

ASSIUT, Egypt - Suspected Moslem militants shot dead a policeman and wounded five others in an attack on a police rest-house in southern Egypt, police said.

ANC Daily News Briefing 1995

Between the Sutlej and Lahore lie fifty of the hottest, flattest, scrubbiest miles on earth, and I supposed we'd cover them in a long day's ride, but Sardul said we should lie overnight at a serai* (* Inn, rest-house.) a few miles from the city: there was something he wanted me to see.

Flashman and the Mountain of Light Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1990

Between the Sutlej and Lahore lie fifty of the hottest, flattest, scrubbiest miles on earth, and I supposed we'd cover them in a long day's ride, but Sardul said we should lie overnight at a serai* (* Inn, rest-house.) a few miles from the city: there was something he wanted me to see.

Flashman And The Mountain Of Light Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1990

The question arose of purchasing a rest-house in the hills near by.

The Kneeling Christian Unknown Christian 1971

But finally, when I bade the chair-men stop for a smoke at a rest-house, knowing they could easily overtake my slow-moving vehicle, he too disappeared, and only took up his station again at the head of the procession when I went back to my chair after dismissing the barrow with

A Wayfarer in China Impressions of a trip across West China and Mongolia Elizabeth Kimball Kendall

Meanwhile the Shan had swum quietly ashore and walked up to the rest-house.

Jack Haydon's Quest John Finnemore