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Examples
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It could only be reached by a ladder from the cheese-loft, and had been closed up for a long time till he arrived and selected it as his retreat.
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Tess had not at this hour the curiosity to ask why the present Mr. Clare was not made a parson like his brethren, and gradually fell asleep again, the words of her informant coming to her along with the smell of the cheeses in the adjoining cheese-loft, and the measured dripping of the whey from the wrings downstairs.
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It could only be reached by a ladder from the cheese-loft, and had been closed up for a long time till he arrived and selected it as his retreat.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles Thomas Hardy 1884
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The dwelling-rooms form, as it were, one house, and the offices, dairy and cheese-loft are added on at one end at right angles.
The Toilers of the Field Richard Jefferies 1867
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A separate staircase, rising from the dairy, gives access to the cheese-loft.
The Toilers of the Field Richard Jefferies 1867
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The house, the dairy, the cheese-loft, would keep her arms in training.
The Open Air Richard Jefferies 1867
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