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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A place where sheep are sold.
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Examples
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Now, there is at Jerusalem, by the sheep-market, a pool.
Higher Lessons in English A work on english grammar and composition Brainerd Kellogg
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The Shepherd had, however, begun to feel more enthusiastic as a farmer than a poet, and preferred to attend the sheep-market at St Boswells.
The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume II. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century Various
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Monday sheep-market in Edinburgh, and being unable to dispose of his entire stock, was necessitated to remain in the city till the following
The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume II. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century Various
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Then, apparently apropos of nothing, the man said, "I have been at the sheep-market to-day," a remark which Callard took as a broad hint for bakshish: the Turk wanted money to buy a fat sheep for the impending sacrifice.
Round the World in Seven Days Herbert Strang
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In agitation it could not have competed with a sheep-market.
Your United States Impressions of a first visit Arnold Bennett 1899
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He darted lightly through the crowd of animals and people that thronged the gateway, turning and dodging with a sure foot among them and running up the narrow street that led to the sheep-market.
The Valley of Vision : a Book of Romance an Some Half Told Tales Henry Van Dyke 1892
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Jerusalem, nor whether the pool was by the sheep-market or by the sheep-gate, nor whereabouts in Jerusalem Bethesda might happen to be.
Expositions of Holy Scripture St. John Chapters I to XIV Alexander Maclaren 1868
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Where it was situated: At Jerusalem, by the sheep-market; epi te probatike.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John) 1721
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It might as well be rendered the sheep-cote, where the sheep were kept, or the sheep-gate, which we read of, Neh.iii. 1, through which the sheep were brought, as the sheep-market, where they were sold.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John) 1721
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