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								July 30th: At last our truck door was opened and the 30 of us were told to get out - this is Rotenturm station, and marched with much clattering of tins & dixies, etc to Eisenzicken, Burgenland - 4 kilos from Hungary, where we were taken by the Burgermaster to an old converted cow-shed which was to serve as our sleeping quarters for many months. Stan Prout 2010 
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								She had ridden on its back all the way to the cow-shed a little way up the hill, the goose cackling at the top of its voice. Working Without a Net Randy Lowens 2010 
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								Hunchy disappeared in the direction of the cow-shed, carrying a pail. 
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								They still use the cow-shed for milking and make ice cream on the premises. Krafla, Mývatn and Glaumbær maryrobinette 2006 
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								Yet how could one describe politely a bedroom in which two or three families lived above a cow-shed, when the cow-shed had no ventilation, when the cows were milked and killed and eaten under the bedroom? Flush: a biography 2004 
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								This old castle, now used as a cow-shed, is the only record of antiquity at Grey Abbey; and yet the ancient family of the Greys have lived there for centuries. 
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								They resemble a cow-shed with one end open, but having a partition a little way within, with a square hole in it, making a small gloomy chamber. 
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								The fowls were housed in the bigger building, which had served as barn and cow-shed in old days. The Fox 2003 
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								They resemble a cow-shed with one end open, but having a partition a little way within, with a square hole in it, making a small gloomy chamber. 
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								But I did not venture to speak of laying a pipe to the cow-shed. 
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