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It was as inevitable as six o'clock and as inevitably eaten in the seclusion of the Philadelphia second-story back-building dining-room, if not of my family, then of one or another of my friends.
Nights Rome, Venice, in the Aesthetic Eighties; London, Paris, in the Fighting Nineties Elizabeth Robins Pennell 1895
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The carts were obliged to pass through the back-building with the workshops, and the goods liable to be injured by the weather, were to be placed in the course of the day in the large garrets of his house.
The Burgomaster's Wife — Volume 03 Georg Ebers 1867
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The carts were obliged to pass through the back-building with the workshops, and the goods liable to be injured by the weather, were to be placed in the course of the day in the large garrets of his house.
Complete Project Gutenberg Georg Ebers Works Georg Ebers 1867
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The carts were obliged to pass through the back-building with the workshops, and the goods liable to be injured by the weather, were to be placed in the course of the day in the large garrets of his house.
The Burgomaster's Wife — Complete Georg Ebers 1867
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A look at radar shows a pivoting and somewhat back-building band of whiteout heading right through DC and the NW suburbs, indicating a continued SE flow of subtropical moisture into the snow growth layer.
Capital Weather Gang 2010
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A look at radar shows a pivoting and somewhat back-building band of whiteout heading right through DC and the NW suburbs, indicating a continued SE flow of subtropical moisture into the snow growth layer.
Capital Weather Gang 2010
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