backyard

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But a backyard is a whole other world.

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  • Close by running behind our backyard is the Cuyahoga ; Erie train with its noisy wheels, almost I don't hear the whistle any longer. —  F ;SF; - vol 104 issue 04 - April 2003
  • But his backyard was an impressive three acres, complete with woods and stream. —  EQMM,July2008
  • The woodland that buttressed against our backyard was a good twenty-acre patch with a path leading down to Birchwater Pond. —  Yasmine Galenorn - [Sisters of the Moon 1] - Witchling
  • In the backyard was a mighty oak tree, and under its spreading branches he set up his anvil The oak tree has long gone. —  THE CAT WHO WENT BANANAS
  • It struck me this morning that all this clearing out in our backyard is an apt metaphor for what I've been doing in my life in very focused and specific ways over the past many months. —  Swirly Girl
 

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