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  • This time it is a pair of houses in Rectory Lane, Little Bowden.

    Little Bowden on Unmitigated England 2009

  • I daresay my father never told you that the Rectory is one of the prettiest houses in the neighbourhood.

    The Semi-Detached House 1859

  • – when word goes round among the Clan that the Rectory is entertaining.

    Canadian Cities of Romance 1922

  • For how is it possible to hint of a delicate female, living in good society, that she ate and drank too much, and that a hot supper of lobsters profusely enjoyed at the Rectory was the reason of an indisposition which Miss Crawley herself persisted was solely attributable to the dampness of the weather?

    Vanity Fair 2006

  • The Rectory is a stout broad-shouldered brick house, of the reign of Anne.

    The History of Pendennis 2006

  • For how is it possible to hint of a delicate female, living in good society, that she ate and drank too much, and that a hot supper of lobsters profusely enjoyed at the Rectory was the reason of an indisposition which Miss Crawley herself persisted was solely attributable to the dampness of the weather?

    XIV. Miss Crawley at Home 1917

  • Come at any time of the evening '; he paused again and smiled --' the third house after the Rectory, which is marked up on the gate.

    The Return Walter De la Mare 1914

  • Near the Rectory is a fine hotel, built when Croft was an important posting-station for the coaches between London and Edinburgh, but in

    The Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll (Rev. C. L. Dodgson) Stuart Dodgson Collingwood 1903

  • The Rectory was a charming old house, being quite a hundred and fifty or two hundred years old; and the study, or schoolroom, as the girls called it, where they invariably partook of tea, was a low-roofed apartment running right across the eastern side of the house.

    A Modern Tomboy A Story for Girls L. T. Meade 1884

  • Then, too, the Rectory was a very short distance off, and indeed from its upper windows this sheltered stretch of sand could be clearly seen.

    The Rectory Children Mrs. Molesworth 1880

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