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But for weeks we've been trying to decipher what prompts a man like him with a job like his at a time like this to swing by a horse-stable adjacent studio like ours (aside from the obvious: that most 18-to-34-year-olds get their terror updates from our show than from any other terror source).
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It often has musty and horse-stable notes, probably from the prolonged fermentation of the fruit layer skatole, cresol.
On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen Harold McGee 2004
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It often has musty and horse-stable notes, probably from the prolonged fermentation of the fruit layer skatole, cresol.
On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen Harold McGee 2004
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An empty stall in a horse-stable is a capital place, and not only affords room for a full bed on the floor, but for rack-beds as well.
Mushrooms: how to grow them a practical treatise on mushroom culture for profit and pleasure William Falconer
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While moistening the leaves with clean water will induce a good fermentation, wetting them with liquid from the horse-stable urine tanks will cause a brisk heat, and for mushrooms produce more genial conditions.
Mushrooms: how to grow them a practical treatise on mushroom culture for profit and pleasure William Falconer
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A bed may be made in the cow-house or horse-stable, the carriage-house, barn-cellar, woodshed, or house-cellar; or if we can not spare much room anywhere, make a bed in a big box and move it to where it will be least in the way.
Mushrooms: how to grow them a practical treatise on mushroom culture for profit and pleasure William Falconer
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The bailiff went in through the horse-stable, something in his carriage showing that he was not altogether unprepared for an attack from behind.
Pelle the Conqueror — Volume 01 Martin Andersen Nex�� 1911
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The bailiff went in through the horse-stable, something in his carriage showing that he was not altogether unprepared for an attack from behind.
Pelle the Conqueror — Complete Martin Andersen Nex�� 1911
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Even normal individuals often have a passionate love for odors that are either indifferent or disgusting to others (rotten apples, wet sponges, cow-dung, and the odor of a horse-stable, garlic, assafoetida, very ripe game, etc.).
Criminal Psychology: a manual for judges, practitioners, and students 1911
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I see now the reason why it is bad policy to mix lime or ashes with horse-stable manure: it is because it soon destroys the animal matter out of it; -- is it not?
An Agricultural Catechism; Or, The Chemistry of Farming Made Easy. A Textbook for the Common Schools in North Carolina. By a Teacher Benjamin Franklin 1867
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