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Examples
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He stood on the bunk, passed the lashing over the ridge-pole, and measured the swingoff with his eye.
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"In the large skin-bale in my house, the one slung by the ridge-pole," came the answer.
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It happened that a heavy wooden peg had been driven into the ridge-pole just above Jim Cardegee's head.
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The mysterious artisan who had laid the cabin, log by log, had pegged a wind-vane to the ridge-pole.
In a Far Country 2010
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"Petrified astride the ridge-pole this last hour."
CHAPTER 24 2010
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Looking down from the great height, they seemed perched upon the ridge-pole of the world, and even the snow-crowned Sierra peaks seemed beneath them.
DUTCH COURAGE 2010
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Hall climbed to the ridge-pole to repeat his warning that Billy must keep away from his wood-pile.
CHAPTER IX 2010
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Sixty feet in the clear, the dim fire occasionally lighted, through shadowy cross-beams, the ridge-pole that was covered with sennit of coconut that was braided in barbaric designs of black and white and that was stained by the smoke of years almost to a monochrome of dirty brown.
CHAPTER XII 2010
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The mysterious artisan who had laid the cabin, log by log, had pegged a wind-vane to the ridge-pole.
In a Far Country 2010
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Tom had lain in bed and run up a doctor bill with a broken leg, gained by falling off the ridge-pole of the barn — which place was the last in the world to which any one would expect to go to pitch hay.
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