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Examples
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*** missing the ball that drops down the "rainspout" & 2 of the shapes that go in the door
craigslist | all for sale / wanted in chicago webmaster@craigslist.org 2010
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Our local “chippie” will run up the closest rainspout if you startle her and make this adorable highpitched squeaky chirp until you leave.
LOVE - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2010
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I was wandering around Home Depot the other day looking for either a rainspout or a store employee who could help me locate one.
Rambles at starchamber.com » Blog Archive » Crowd-mapping Home Depot 2008
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While your dog may elect to sip from a rusty rainspout, what you give him or her for water is your responsibility.
Dogs and dog food 2005
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She went up two staircases and a ladder, and out the rooftop hatch, and a moment later there was one more ornamental moonbird-rainspout up on the roof than there had been before.
Elvenblood Lackey, Mercedes 1995
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Her name was never mentioned in the family after she slid down a rainspout one night and eloped to marry a depraved scoundrel who drove through there on a red wagon with tinware inside that he would trade for old rags.
Somewhere in Red Gap Harry Leon Wilson 1903
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I got the car pulled in under a wagon shed and put in eighteen hours building a new transmission out of an old copper pump and a rainspout.
Continuous Vaudeville Hal [Illustrator] Merrit 1896
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* Drop balls in rainspout for counting fun and musical reward!
craigslist | all for sale / wanted in chicago webmaster@craigslist.org 2010
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"The rib of an umbrella, the rainspout at the side of the house, the springs of a bed give good results.
The Radio Boys Trailing a Voice or, Solving a Wireless Mystery Allen Chapman
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The water from the rainspout is dripping down my back. "
The Flyers George Barr McCutcheon 1897
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