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Examples
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It would be liking giving a wolf house-room in your hen yard.
Dark Moon of Avalon Anna Elliott 2010
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Mark had been raised with farm horses, slaving for the uncle who grudged him house-room and food, and he still rode farm fashion, inelegant but durable, now that the bishop's stable had provided him a fine tall gelding in place of a plodding farm drudge.
His Disposition 2010
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It would be liking giving a wolf house-room in your hen yard.
Dark Moon of Avalon Anna Elliott 2010
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It would be liking giving a wolf house-room in your hen yard.
Dark Moon of Avalon Anna Elliott 2010
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We wouldn't give them house-room in the 'real' world.
A Word about Comments elena maria vidal 2009
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Elspeth is of good folk, a widow, and the mother of orphans, — she will give us house-room until something be thought upon.
The Monastery 2008
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That surely would be a triumph, for the housing of many books has come to be a difficulty; everything has grown smaller of late; this is not an age of giants; men have shrunk, everything about them shrinks, and house-room into the bargain.
Two Poets 2007
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Terrorism is a growth industry in Syria and it is only natural that, emboldened by its Iranian ally, the Syrian regime should seek to remain the market leader by supplying the ultimate weapon to Hezbollah, Hamas and a plethora of Palestinian rejectionist groups who have been given house-room in Damascus.
‘So close to war’ 2007
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That surely would be a triumph, for the housing of many books has come to be a difficulty; everything has grown smaller of late; this is not an age of giants; men have shrunk, everything about them shrinks, and house-room into the bargain.
Two Poets 2007
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That this helps to foster art which is intensely serious, unconsoling, and unafraid of the complexity of a world that the secularist too can recognise might persuade us to give a little more intellectual house-room to the underlying theology than we might at first be inclined to offer.
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