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Examples
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Wheateye jumped up and down on the coalshed roof and screamed: Maggie Daly is a liar.
The Dollmaker Harriette Arnow 1954
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There, they began hurling epithets toward Wheateye, now jumping up and down and screaming on her coalshed roof.
The Dollmaker Harriette Arnow 1954
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She whirled to see Wheateye race through her door and down her walk, then spring, monkey-like, from garbage-can top to coalshed roof.
The Dollmaker Harriette Arnow 1954
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Gertie saw three of the smaller Dalys rush out of their kitchen and climb onto their coalshed as if to be prepared with a grandstand seat for some coming spectacle.
The Dollmaker Harriette Arnow 1954
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Half of it has been pulled down to build a staircase, and the low casement windows are blocked by a lean-to coalshed, making the room so dark that I could barely see the plaster modelling of the wall.
Lynton and Lynmouth A Pageant of Cliff & Moorland F. J. Widgery
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The island is only a quarter of a mile in diameter, and on it are situated an Admiralty coalshed — where
A Goboto Night 1911
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I noticed a man trying to escape through the door that led to the coalshed.
From Whose Bourne Robert Barr 1881
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At night she roosted apart in the coalshed, and she never seemed to hear my voice or distinguish me from others, though she was perfectly tame to everybody.
Station Amusements 1871
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(notwithstanding their place of congress was a small coalshed in Fetter Lane) that she was nearly related to a man of fortune, but was injuriously kept by him out of large possessions.
Life Of Johnson Boswell, James, 1740-1795 1887
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Wheateye, holding a turnip by its top, peeling it with her teeth, jumped up and down on the Meanwell coalshed, and in between times screaming at the Dalys: Mother suckers, mother suckers; that’s yer brothers, allus runnen home to yu old man.
The Dollmaker Harriette Arnow 1954
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