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Shown here is the dining room in the house with the door opening to a large garden in back with a fountain that starts with an antique millstone, with water flowing down a 60-foot stainless steel trough-like chute.
Napa Valley Winery 2011
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A large garden in back features a fountain that starts with an antique millstone, with water flowing down a 60-foot stainless steel trough-like chute.
Napa Valley, Korean Style Nancy Keates 2011
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Why, she begged of Henry Adams, do we like feeding in long trough-like rooms, black with flies and negro waiters?
The Five of Hearts Patricia O'Toole 2008
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Firstly, the medial surface of the dentary possesses trough-like concavities that Fox et al. interpreted as areas for the articulation of post-dentary bones.
Archive 2006-05-01 Darren Naish 2006
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Why, she begged of Henry Adams, do we like feeding in long trough-like rooms, black with flies and negro waiters?
The Five of Hearts Patricia O'Toole 2008
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On sloping topography trough-like depressions of up to 20 cm in depth run perpendicular to the contour of the slope.
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Some water was coming straight down from the wheel into the trough-like base of the "fountain" or whatever this thing was.
wilberteets Diary Entry wilberteets 2006
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About 5:00 P.M. Longstreet joined Lee on Seminary Ridge whence there was a wide sweep of vision: the town ahead, a long trough-like meadow to the right front, and east of that, stone-littered Cemetery Ridge, which swept southward and gave place to the two eminences that bulked almost as if they were mountains—Little Round Top and Round Top.
LEE’S LIEUTENANTS DOUGLAS SOUTHALL FREEMAN 2001
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About 5:00 P.M. Longstreet joined Lee on Seminary Ridge whence there was a wide sweep of vision: the town ahead, a long trough-like meadow to the right front, and east of that, stone-littered Cemetery Ridge, which swept southward and gave place to the two eminences that bulked almost as if they were mountains—Little Round Top and Round Top.
LEE’S LIEUTENANTS DOUGLAS SOUTHALL FREEMAN 2001
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The Horsehair's trough-like urinal was brimful of liquid, as had always, to Rebus's knowledge, been the case.
Strip Jack Rankin, Ian, 1960- 1992
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