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  • He could not see the last cow-stall from where he stood.

    The Valley of Adventure Blyton, Enid, 1898?-1968 1947

  • He could put him in the last cow-stall, and then fetch him the next day, when he was a little more recovered.

    The Valley of Adventure Blyton, Enid, 1898?-1968 1947

  • "If those men do look round here when they come back, they'll see them in the cow-stall, as sure as anything!"

    The Valley of Adventure Blyton, Enid, 1898?-1968 1947

  • A low cow-stall came next and beyond this a fowl roost, both these last noticeably clean and sweet, and this in a day when the microbe and the germ were not such prominent factors in our civilisation as they are at present.

    Margarita's Soul The Romantic Recollections of a Man of Fifty Josephine Dodge Daskam Bacon 1918

  • Old Lasse was sitting in an empty cow-stall, mending Pelle's clothes, while the boy played up and down the foddering passage.

    Pelle the Conqueror — Volume 01 Martin Andersen Nex�� 1911

  • Old Lasse was sitting in an empty cow-stall, mending Pelle's clothes, while the boy played up and down the foddering passage.

    Pelle the Conqueror — Complete Martin Andersen Nex�� 1911

  • When the haze of the rain comes down in the distant sky, and lightning starts up like a sudden fit of pain, does he remember his unhappy mother, abandoned by the king, sweeping the cow-stall and wiping her eyes, while he rides through the desert of

    The Crescent Moon Rabindranath Tagore 1901

  • For in cow-stall or garden or cottage, or in the fields or on the heaths, the claim of the moment was all-absorbing; and as he hurried to thatch his rick before the rain came, or to get his turfs home by nightfall, the ideas which thronged about his doings crowded out ideas of any other sort.

    Change in the Village George Sturt 1895

  • And then to those recollections must be added memories of the scenes in which the industry went on -- the wide landscapes, the glowing cornfields, the meadows, woods, heaths; and likewise the details of barn and rick-yard, and stable and cow-stall, and numberless other corners into which his work has taken him.

    Change in the Village George Sturt 1895

  • Or now, a decrepit man would explain that in such and such a puzzling nook in the hillside had once stood his father's cow-stall.

    Change in the Village George Sturt 1895

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