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Of course, Kilgore's home is Gate City, also the home-place of Jim Webb's family and the first words mentioned in his book "Born Fighting".
40th Senate District 2006
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We had a LONG trip back to the home-place today following a very fun week long stay with family and I had the chance to think a bit.
G is for Goal, Right? Holly 2008
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And the home-place still looks like the "Before" shots of a candidate for THIS OLD HOUSE, but we expected that.
And now it's white on the _other_ other side jhetley 2006
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Although, as I said before, Beau became used to the servants whom he saw every day upon the home-place, no strange negro dared to come inside the big gate unless accompanied by one of the family.
Memories A Record of Personal Experience and Adventure During Four Years of War Fannie A. Beers
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At first it gave much trouble, but gradually he grew tolerant of the servants upon the "home-place," although he never took kindly even to these.
Memories A Record of Personal Experience and Adventure During Four Years of War Fannie A. Beers
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The little doctor lifted her aching eyes and took in the rude comfort of her home-place with a deep sigh.
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Always in his deeper, more thoughtful moods the old home-place had a part.
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So cautious in land titles was he that at the time of his death he owned three rights to his home-place including the farming-land along Wolf
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That-er Yankee man they called Sheridan -- he passed up by The Way an 'he stopt right on the home-place o'
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At last one evening, just as the sun was setting, they approached the home-place, once a blooming paradise, now a desert waste.
Memories A Record of Personal Experience and Adventure During Four Years of War Fannie A. Beers
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