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Examples
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“There was not a single garage in all New York in those days,” he recalled, “and a livery-stable would not take me in.”
The King's Best Highway Eric Jaffe 2010
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“There was not a single garage in all New York in those days,” he recalled, “and a livery-stable would not take me in.”
The King's Best Highway Eric Jaffe 2010
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“There was not a single garage in all New York in those days,” he recalled, “and a livery-stable would not take me in.”
The King's Best Highway Eric Jaffe 2010
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He lays the blame of former inaccuracies on evil company — the people who were at the livery-stable were too seductive, I suppose — he denies he ever did the horse injustice — would rather have wanted his own dinner, he says.
Redgauntlet 2008
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Consequently, Georges sent to a livery-stable for three open carriages, in which he drove his company for an hour round the exterior boulevards from Monmartre to the Barriere du Trone.
A Start in Life 2007
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Street, where he and Gumbo installed themselves, his horses standing at a neighbouring livery-stable.
The Virginians 2006
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I went to see my nag put up at a livery-stable hard by, with the
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On went the horse, over mountains, rivers, turnpikes, apple-women; and never stopped until he reached a livery-stable in
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The (job) brougham horse used to look dreadfully lean and tired, and the livery-stable keeper complained that we worked him too hard.
Roundabout Papers 2006
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On went the horse, over mountains, rivers, turnpikes, apple-women; and never stopped until he reached a livery-stable in
Burlesques 2006
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