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Examples
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On the festive day, courtyards in village houses will be swept clean and plastered with fresh cow-dung.
Gudi Padwa – Bandra Gaothan « bollywoods most wanted photographerno1 2008
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Huts are usually constructed from mud blocks, roofs are thatched and the floors are covered with a mud and cow-dung paste that serves as a disinfectant.
India's Rural Poor: Why Housing Isn't Enough to Create Sustainable Communities 2009
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Cooking is usually done inside the house under inadequate ventilation with biomass such as dried cow-dung, fire wood, dry weeds or crop residue, exacerbating the risk of tuberculosis.
India's Rural Poor: Why Housing Isn't Enough to Create Sustainable Communities 2009
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Poor Tom sets himself the task of embodying the mad stereotype: he is Poor Tom that eats the swimming frog, the toad, the tadpole, cow-dung for salads, swallows the old rat and the ditch-dung and drinks the green mantle of the standing pool.
Bedlam Catharine Arnold 2008
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The players move the magnetic game figure of Florian Flügel over the gameboard, trying to have him avoid stepping into the hidden also magnetic pieces of horse- and cow-dung.
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Poor Tom sets himself the task of embodying the mad stereotype: he is Poor Tom that eats the swimming frog, the toad, the tadpole, cow-dung for salads, swallows the old rat and the ditch-dung and drinks the green mantle of the standing pool.
Bedlam Catharine Arnold 2008
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They make bread for six months at one time; they bake it with dried cow-dung.
Les Miserables 2008
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The players move the magnetic game figure of Florian Flügel over the gameboard, trying to have him avoid stepping into the hidden also magnetic pieces of horse- and cow-dung.
Archive 2008-12-01 2008
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Poor Tom sets himself the task of embodying the mad stereotype: he is Poor Tom that eats the swimming frog, the toad, the tadpole, cow-dung for salads, swallows the old rat and the ditch-dung and drinks the green mantle of the standing pool.
Bedlam Catharine Arnold 2008
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Yet it must be admitted that cow-dung and all the diamonds of the great Mogul are perfectly equal, not only in the eyes of a Divine Being, but in those of a true philosopher; and, with regard to the reasons which God might have for ordering the prophet this repast, we have no right to inquire into them.
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