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  • Blossom Inn, where the blossoms were made of dusty paper festooned along a room low and stinking, like a cow-stable no longer wisely used.

    Babbit 2004

  • Cedar was found competent to act as first assistant to the president -- in the cow-stable.

    My Friends at Brook Farm John Van Der Zee Sears

  • Then fill an ordinary coarse potato sack with cow-stable manure and set the sack in the barrel for a few days.

    Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Nature Study Ontario. Ministry of Education

  • There is a door behind you into the cow-stable -- the one I came in by.

    The Young Railroaders Tales of Adventure and Ingenuity Francis Lovell Coombs

  • "Well, the horses can stand in the cow-stable and the wood-shed," said

    Napoleon and the Queen of Prussia F. [Translator] Jordan

  • Saturday morning regular lessons were resumed in the classroom, but I held aloof in out-of-the-way coverts; one hiding place being the cow-stable.

    My Friends at Brook Farm John Van Der Zee Sears

  • On her way to the cow-stable where the little mother whose calf had fallen

    The Wind Before the Dawn Dell H. Munger

  • My industrial education was not confined to the cow-stable.

    My Friends at Brook Farm John Van Der Zee Sears

  • Elizabeth sought out the little mother, and segregating her from the herd, drove her into the straw cow-stable, where she would be sheltered.

    The Wind Before the Dawn Dell H. Munger

  • The horses, the servants, and the high-chamberlain, had been conducted to their quarters in the cow-stable, wood-shed, and hay-loft.

    Napoleon and the Queen of Prussia F. [Translator] Jordan

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