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  • Once upon a time, the swamp was called the Rookery, google [wiki] “Holgath prints” or “gin lane” for a series of drawings of life.

    Locally Elected Police Chiefs, Yeah? « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2010

  • -- We thank you for the particulars which you send us of your essay club, called The Rookery, and willingly give your invitation to our readers to join it.

    The Girl's Own Paper, Vol. VIII, No. 354, October 9, 1886 Various

  • 'And there was no settlement of the little property - the house and garden - the what's-its-name Rookery without any rooks in it - upon her boy?'

    David Copperfield Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 1917

  • “And there was no settlement of the little property—the house and garden—the what’s-its-name Rookery without any rooks in it—upon her boy?

    XIV. My Aunt Makes up Her Mind about Me 1917

  • "No, I have it as a cottage, but it is an old farm-house called the Rookery," she returned.

    Afoot in England 1881

  • 'And there was no settlement of the little property-the house and garden-the what's-its-name Rookery without any rooks in it-upon her boy?'

    David Copperfield 1850

  • 'And there was no settlement of the little property - the house and garden - the what's-its-name Rookery without any rooks in it - upon her boy?'

    David Copperfield Charles Dickens 1841

  • Yet, most obviously in height and color, Johnson's building does differ from Root's -- in fact, the Rookery is a better stylistic reference -- and these differences naturally spark a desire to stand the Masonic

    Chicago Reader 2010

  • (It was probably those "artificial" horizontal divisions that prompted Philip Johnson's observation that the Rookery was a building designed on one of Root's off days.)

    Chicago Reader 2010

  • And Dickhut would like to see the garden, still officially called the Rookery, named for Caldwell.

    Chicago Reader 2010

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