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Examples
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A four-roomed cottage, a log lock-up with two cells, a four-stalled stable, and a horse-yard.
Robbery Under Arms 2004
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Just then a tramping of hoofs was heard; and looking out of the back door they saw, about two hundred yards away, a large horse-yard, over which hung a cloud of dust.
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The sergeant dressed without more ado, as did his subordinate on learning the nature of their midnight errand; meanwhile the disturber of slumbers was gone to the horse-yard to start saddling.
Stingaree 1893
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And there was the horse-yard overflowing with moonshine, but empty alike of man and beast.
Stingaree 1893
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I made straight for it, but the mistress of the house, who was in the horse-yard, would not let me in when I knocked at the door.
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a log lock-up with two cells, a four-stalled stable, and a horse-yard.
Robbery under Arms; a story of life and adventure in the bush and in the Australian goldfields Rolf Boldrewood 1870
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