pig-stye

• “It was situated against the back of the cottage, and surrounded on the sides which were exposed by a pig-stye and a clear pool of water.”

  Simon & Schuster: Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus

• “The prisoners took their turn at the pumps with the rest, and when their strength gave out, they were put in irons and allowed to rest upon a wet sail soaked with the drainings of a pig-stye under which it was spread.”

  Voyage of H.M.S. Pandora Despatched to Arrest the Mutineers of the 'Bounty' in the South Seas, 1790-1791

• “Mr. Ketchum, when enlightened by his wife, could see that his guest was in a bad way; and one day it chanced that they were left alone in the library, where Job was most unromantically engaged in looking up plans for a model pig-stye, while he incidentally refreshed himself with his favorite confection, molasses candy.”

  Lippincott's Magazine Of Popular Literature And Science Old Series, Vol. 36—New Series, Vol. 10, July 1885

• “Certainly it was as small an estate as can well be imagined, consisting of exactly two acres, pasture, arable, cottage, and pig-stye included, but undoubted freehold, without a flaw in the title.”

  Dr. Jolliffe's Boys

• “The woman went round the cabin, and the pig-stye, and the patch of meagre gooseberry-bushes, throwing the uncertain torch-light on every dark hole or corner; but no one was to be seen.”

  A Loose End and Other Stories

• “She's washing Bobby; he tumbled right into the pig-stye, and came out”

  Odd

• “House; therefore we may suppose that the Saint had his house, and possibly his pig-stye, built of this same stone.”

  The Argosy Vol. 51, No. 4, April, 1891

• “If a man have a pig-stye to build, or a log-house in the woods, he may hit upon an agreeable outline; but let him set out freely and with all deliberation to build something that shall be beautiful, and he fails.”

  The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 03, January, 1858

• “He conducted us through the numerous buildings, from the boiling-house to the pig-stye.”

  The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus

• “Frenchmen called it; but he thought it more like a pig-stye: there, in a room with two straw beds, they had two pigeons for supper, on a dirty cloth, with wooden handled knives.”

  The Life of the Right Honourable Horatio Lord Viscount Nelson, Volume 1

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