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A rectangular house of two stories was designed in a quadrangle round a covered-in court.
The Man of Property 2004
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They made a vaulting-horse with covered-in sides and parked it every day by the warning wire in exactly the same place.
THE GREAT ESCAPE BRICKHILL, PAUL 1951
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The wind was so strong that the men had to get out of the carriage, which was a heavy covered-in waggonette, and hold the wheels down to prevent it from being overturned.
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In order to accomplish this, it is sufficient to allow it to stand in covered-in tanks of a conical form, and about 3 or 4 feet high.
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With square, massive bows they thicken away aft, until, curving upwards with a bold sweep of the gunnels, their covered-in sterns, high above the balanced rudder, form good quarters for the lowdah and his family, where from tiny windows women and children peep in shy curiosity at the foreigner sailing by.
Life and sport in China Second Edition Oliver George Ready
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The convent is large; it has a great mildewed cloister with a covered-in walk all around it built on arches.
Short Stories and Selections for Use in the Secondary Schools Emilie Kip Baker
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To the envelope of the N.S. is rigged a long covered-in car.
British Airships, Past, Present, and Future George Whale
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Their work is covered-in and is so left, I doubt not, in the majority of cases, as the inspection furnished by the "Department" is entirely inadequate for proper protection.
The American Architect and Building News, Vol. 27, No. 733, January 11, 1890 Various
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For longer distances, a ship of 150,000 cubic feet capacity, with a covered-in car and driven by two engines, would have an endurance of 25 hours at a cruising speed of 45 miles per hour.
British Airships, Past, Present, and Future George Whale
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This nosepiece, preferably constructed of aluminium, must be of the covered-in type, consisting of a curved plate attached to the lower end of the body tube -- a circular aperture being cut to correspond to the lumen of that tube.
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