house-place

The whole party was assembled in the house-place when

Adam Bede 2004

The tall buildings round the yard shut out a good deal of the sky, but the large window let in abundant light to show every corner of the house-place.

Adam Bede 2004

She was not in the house-place when he entered, and he sat talking to Mr. and Mrs. Poyser for a few minutes with a heavy fear on his heart that they might presently tell him Hetty was ill.

Adam Bede 2004

In other respects there is little outward change now discernible in our old friends, or in the pleasant house-place, bright with polished oak and pewter.

Adam Bede 2004

So he turned, with rather a heavy heart, into the house-place.

Adam Bede 2004

Martin Poyser and the grandfather were not yet come in from the meadow: every one was in the meadow, even to the black-and-tan terrier — no one kept watch in the yard but the bull-dog; and when Adam reached the house-door, which stood wide open, he saw there was no one in the bright clean house-place.

Adam Bede 2004

And the other family party, with Mr. Craig for company, went back to the pleasant bright house-place at the Hall

Adam Bede 2004

Mrs. Poyser accepted this compromise, but thought it advisable to bar and bolt to the utmost; and now, at the last moment before starting, Nancy, the dairy-maid, was closing the shutters of the house-place, although the window, lying under the immediate observation of Alick and the dogs, might have been supposed the least likely to be selected for a burglarious attempt.

Adam Bede 2004

Everybody was come back from the meadow; and when Hetty and Adam entered the house-place, Mr. Poyser was seated in the three-cornered chair, and the grandfather in the large arm-chair opposite, looking on with pleasant expectation while the supper was being laid on the oak table.

Adam Bede 2004

Adam said, in a tone of encouraging command; and Gyp, apparently satisfied that duty and pleasure were one, followed Lisbeth into the house-place.

Adam Bede 2004