The summer-house stood in grounds attached to a
country seat in Perthshire, known by the name of Windygates.
Next, having remarked that, though not a master of eloquence, he had always considered that obligations of gentility obliged him to have with me a clear and outspoken explanation, he went on to say that he sought my hand in marriage; that he looked upon it as a duty to restore to me my honour; that he could offer me riches; that, after marriage, he would take me to his
country seat in the Steppes, where we would hunt hares; that he intended never to visit St.
A mansion-house, which perhaps had been the
country seat of some Tory gentle man, was provided for his residence.
His horse was a poor, starved, hobbling creature, and two slaves followed him on foot to drive the poor creature along; he had a whip in his hand, and he belaboured the beast as fast about the head as his slaves did about the tail; and thus he rode by us, with about ten or twelve servants, going from the city to his
country seat, about half a league before us.
The scouts reported further, that this party meeting with some others who had been at similar work elsewhere, they all united into one, and drafting off a few men with the killed and wounded, marched away to Lord Mansfield's
country seat at Caen Wood, between Hampstead and Highgate; bent upon destroying that house likewise, and lighting up a great fire there, which from that height should be seen all over London.
"'Grant leave to retire to his
country seat to an old man who is already in any case dishonored by being unable to fulfill the great and glorious task for which he was chosen.
Dixon's name as well as her own, to press their coming over directly, and they would give them the meeting in Dublin, and take them back to their
country seat, Balycraig, a beautiful place, I fancy.
I consider myself, therefore, a made man, and am bargaining for a
country seat on the Hudson.
They have, one, Ducie Street; two, Howards End, where my great rumpus was; three, a
country seat in Shropshire; four, Charles has a house in Hilton; and five, another near Epsom; and six, Evie will have a house when she marries, and probably a pied-a-terre in the country--which makes seven.
Again, for miles along the shores, handsome
country seats, surrounded by gardens and groves, sit fairly in the water, sometimes in nooks carved by Nature out of the vine-hung precipices, and with no ingress or egress save by boats.
GEORGE Galloway is to stand against Labour's deputy Tom Watson in his Black
Country seat - accusing him of being the "wrecker-in-chief of Brexit".
DP Ruto has also toured the country to popularise himself as he eyes the top
country seat in 202.