(1) Many leave banking after three to five years, not because they are 'worn out', but because now they have financial security to start their own business or go on to advocate for a cause they are passionate about or buy a small cottage in the West Country for the rest of their lives."
(2) As well as a portrait of Austen, the new note will include images of her writing desk and quills at Chawton Cottage, in Hampshire, where she lived; her brother's home, Godmersham Park, which she visited often, and is thought to have inspired some of her novels, and a quote from Miss Bingley, in Pride and Prejudice: "I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading!"
(3) Bargain of the week Charming but teeny-tiny one-bedroom period cottage, £55,000, with williamsonandhenry.com .
(4) After hauling the food back to the cottage, they drew up a rota for the cooking, with some preparing breakfast for the group, and others sharing the duties for lunch and dinner.
(5) We used to watch River Cottage on the telly and thought: “Wow, where’s that?
(6) On 23 July, having completed his final corrections, Grant died in his summer cottage on the slopes of Mount McGregor, in New York state.
(7) The ease of deception has given birth to a brand new cottage industry.
(8) Pictures of the rebuilding of cottages would be beamed directly to "the government building, to me at home and to the website of the government", he said, adding: "Any citizen will be able to watch in real time what is happening."
(9) At the end of your journey is the Idwal Cottage youth hostel, and Cwm Idwal nature reserve.
(10) • €165 a night, i-escape.com La Mare Chappey, Manche, Normandy Just 20 miles from the ferry port at Cherbourg, this collection of cottages in the grounds of a 16th-century manor house is perfect for a hassle-free family holiday.
(11) At the time of purchase Henley Concierge was registered to a cottage on Borodin's £120m country estate near Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire.
(12) The Pynes now live in Wakefield, in a cottage packed with photos of Morrissey and a dedicated music room stuffed with CDs and vinyl.
(13) Those that have genuine integrity are now, actually, driving a massive cottage industry around the world, which is every day reducing CO2 emissions".
(14) Ankle ligament damage has already denied Stockdale his first involvement with the national side – the Fulham goalkeeper fears he could be absent for up to two months having only just broken into the first team at Craven Cottage – and allowed Carson a return to the fold.
(15) This result was confirmed by radioimmunoassay of dry curd cottage cheese and whey.
(16) In the summer, just after his second birthday in early July, the family booked a holiday cottage in Orkney.
(17) The simultaneous ingestion of glucose with cottage cheese or egg white protein decreased the glucose area response to glucose by 11% and 20%, respectively.
(18) Principal component factor analyses, carried out separately on the youths' COPES-School and the youths' COPES-Cottage, yielded two orthogonal but similar factors in each environment.
(19) Ustinov was born in Swiss Cottage, London, an almost perfectly spherical 12lb baby and only child, descended as he later said "from generations of rotund men - it was the 214th prize in the lottery of life".
(20) Who else would have decided to leave the relative cosiness of Ditchling Village for Hopkins Crank, an unreconstructed Georgian squatter's cottage and outbuildings on Ditchling Common?
Shack
Definition:
(v. t.) To feed in stubble, or upon waste corn.
(v. t.) To shed or fall, as corn or grain at harvest.
(v. t.) To wander as a vagabond or a tramp.
(n.) The grain left after harvest or gleaning; also, nuts which have fallen to the ground.
(n.) Liberty of winter pasturage.
(n.) A shiftless fellow; a low, itinerant beggar; a vagabond; a tramp.
Example Sentences:
(1) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Without the money to begin building permanent homes, residents of Barkobot are living in temporary tin shacks.
(2) Nan had gone away for a weekend Prayathon and Mack had taken Katie and Missy to a shack in Oregon.
(3) There are wild beaches for those prepared to tote their own supplies, but most have a shack selling drinks, ice-creams and snacks.
(4) OK, so it wouldn't beat London's MeatLiquor in a fight, but it'd certainly knock seven shades out of Shake Shack and Five Guys with both hands tied behind its back.
(5) Depictions of them by the likes of the Daily Mail as destitute Roma, desperate to leave shacks in the shanty towns of Sofia, are denounced as discriminatory and ill-informed.
(6) "The government did not fund the empower shack, though they helped us speed up the approval process," said Andy Bolnick, founder of iKhayalami , the NGO that built the shack in Khayelitsha township.
(7) Back then, as is now the case, Germany was governed by a “grand coalition”: the two biggest parties, the Christian Democrats and the Social Democrats, had shacked up.
(8) Brilliant young author rails against the "phony" nature of modern life but, unlike many before him, does not eventually sell out and conform but puts his money where his mouth is and moves out to the proverbial shack in the woods to pursue his vision.
(9) Dozens more were injured, robbed and driven from their shacks at Bitter Creek.
(10) An old worker, laid off on the eve of retirement, reluctantly opens a love shack for illicit couples.
(11) He had a seaside shack with one bedroom containing a solid silver four-poster bed.
(12) Some signs breathed – there were cats in baskets, rats and parrots in cages, vultures tethered to wine shacks, and so on, often with bells around their necks.
(13) Momepele currently lives in a shack in the eNsimbini settlement in Chesterville, near Durban.
(14) He and the other new arrivals were put up in a derelict shack, with plywood walls, a tin roof and no fan to ease the humid air.
(15) We walked past field after field of strawberries, and clusters of wooden shacks.
(16) When ships dock here from Antarctica and when daytrippers return after retracing Darwin’s trip across the Beagle Channel a surprising high proportion of passengers utter the same words: “Let’s go to the Irish pub!” The Dublin is no carbon copy from the motherland; instead it has a distinct local look – a shack-like structure, corrugated frontage (green, of course) and small-paned windows.
(17) Blocking-out involves the local people who demolish the old clutter of shacks and rebuild them.
(18) Three Radio Shack TRS-80 Model 100 (PLCs) were used to capture and transfer the charting by phone into the hospital information system (HIS).
(19) Under a pink mosquito dome in a shack among the filthy alleyways of sector two of the Malakal protection of civilians (PoC) camp lies 11-day-old Pul.
(20) Their children and grandchildren still live in these shacks, held together with salvaged tin and timber.