country house

The list of American émigrés who played a role in country house life before the Second World War is a long one.

By the 1950s most of the Americans and Anglo-Americans who had acquired country houses were more British than the Brits.

Just as significant were Americans who established another tradition by settling in Britain and buying country houses of their own.

In that country at that moment, the Catholics have practically disappeared.

This Congress will welcome more women than ever before at 19 percent of the House and 20 percent of the Senate.

Even internally in the House, women are not getting their fair shake.

He then provides some insight into his psyche - complete with Animal House reference.

Even the arguably more democratic House is only at 10 percent black members.

It was a decayed house of superb proportions, but of a fashion long passed away.

A Yankee, whose face had been mauled in a pot-house brawl, assured General Jackson that he had received his scars in battle.

On the thirteenth of the same month they bound to the stake, in order to burn alive, a man who had two religious in his house.

The country is well inhabited, for it contains fifty-one cities, near a hundred walled towns, and a great number of villages.

In the drawing-room things went on much as they always do in country drawing-rooms in the hot weather.