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Examples
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Hundreds of huys show up each day when the water conditions are right.
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Hundreds of huys show up each day when the water conditions are right.
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I believe thats its those huys on the comet that are …. no wait thats a different fiction writer.
Think Progress » Noonan: If Global Warming Is Real, Blame The Scientists 2006
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Did we invent it, or borrow it from the _Stad-huys_ (town-hall) of New Amsterdam?
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 25, November, 1859 Various
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The hall of justice was in the stadt-huys, a great stone building, before which stood the high gallows whereon malefactors were executed.
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The Stadt-huys being the only cool place it contained, I repaired thither as fast as the heat permitted, and walked in a lofty marble hall, magnificently covered, till the dinner was ready at the inn.
Dreams Waking Thoughts and Incidents Beckford, William 1891
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In the open space before the jail and _stadt huys_ were a pair of stocks and a whipping-post.
Tales of the Chesapeake George Alfred Townsend 1877
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_State-house_: this seems an Americanism, whether invented or derived from the Dutch _Stad-huys_, I know not.
The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell James Russell Lowell 1855
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Stadt-huys being the only cool place it contained, I repaired thither as fast as the heat permitted, and walked in a lofty marble hall, magnificently covered, till the dinner was ready at the inn.
Dreams, Waking Thoughts, and Incidents William Beckford 1801
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Oh laws and decency only apply to the hard working taxpapayer are chumps according to g! huys like this!
SplicedFeed 2010
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