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Examples
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The local council's granted the family a zoning exception that trumps the complaints of the family's neighbours who complained of the smell (they also border a cow-pasture!).
Boing Boing 2008
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The weeds in a city lot convey the same lesson as the redwoods; the farmer may see in his cow-pasture what may not be vouchsafed to the scientist adventuring the South Seas.
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Her feelings were echoed, person after person, in this sawmill and cow-pasture hamlet today, where the Appalachian foothills rise above town in every direction.
Eschaton 2003
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Her feelings were echoed, person after person, in this sawmill and cow-pasture hamlet today, where the Appalachian foothills rise above town in every direction.
Archive 2003-06-01 2003
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It was originally a town cow-pasture, and called the Tower Fields.
Lands of the Slave and the Free Cuba, the United States, and Canada Henry A. Murray
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The serene, strong life, reaching deep underground and high overhead, robed itself in April and disrobed itself in October when the Common was a cow-pasture, and observes the same seasons now that the old tree is belted with an iron girdle and finds its feet covered with flowers.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 2, No. 14, December 1858 Various
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Boston owes its only park worth naming -- the celebrated Common -- to the necessity of leaving a convenient cow-pasture for the babes and sucklings of that now mature community.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 42, April, 1861 Various
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_ It should be buried deep, and far from the cow-pasture.
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A dozen cow-pasture aviators were taking credulous young reporters aside and confiding that next day, or next week, or at latest next month, they would startle the world by ascending in machines "on entirely new and revolutionary principles, on which they had been working for ten years."
The Trail of the Hawk A Comedy of the Seriousness of Life Sinclair Lewis 1918
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He went outdoors and stood for a long time, looking out across the cow-pasture Tom Butterworth and
Poor White Sherwood Anderson 1908
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