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Examples
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The farthest she'd ever been from the kolba was the two-kilometer walk she'd made to Jalil's house.
A Thousand Splendid Suns Hosseini, Khaled 2007
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Mariam did surmise, by the way Nana said the word, that it was an ugly, loathsome thing to be a harami, like an insect, like the scurrying cockroaches Nana was always cursing and sweeping out of the kolba.
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It was this last piece that slipped from Mariam's fingers, that fell to the wooden floorboards of the kolba and shattered.
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It must have, because Mariam remembered that she had been restless and preoccupied that day, the way she was only on Thursdays, the day when Jalil visited her at the kolba.
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Kui see Bob seal kolba kujul on, siis see nn piloot on see toorfilm, millega mindi rahastajaid püüdma.
The Dresden Files - 1x01 - Birds of a Feather (2007) Ulmeguru 2008
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No. She grew up in a kolba made of mud outside the village.
A Thousand Splendid Suns Hosseini, Khaled 2007
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The whole mass of them swayed side to side, like the tall grass around the kolba when the breeze swept across the clearing.
A Thousand Splendid Suns Hosseini, Khaled 2007
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Mariam stood beside Bibi jo, with the women, as Mullah Faizullah recited prayers at the graveside and the men lowered Nana's shrouded body into the ground-Afterward, Jalil walked Mariam to the kolba, where, in front of the villagers who accompanied them, he made a great show of tending to Mariam.
A Thousand Splendid Suns Hosseini, Khaled 2007
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She steps out of the kolba Outside, the light has shifted slightly.
A Thousand Splendid Suns Hosseini, Khaled 2007
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She missed sitting with Mullah Faizullah outside the kolba, watching the fireworks explode over Herat in the distance, the sudden bursts of color reflected in her tutor's soft, cataract-riddled eyes.
A Thousand Splendid Suns Hosseini, Khaled 2007
dontcry commented on the word kolba
a type of shack, or small house
November 19, 2008