stock-yard

• “Now the train was passing the elevator, the grim storage - tanks for oil, a creamery, a lumber-yard, a stock-yard muddy and trampled and stinking.”

  Main Street

• “We encamped beside the old stock-yard and the ruins of a dairy, only visible in the remaining excavation.”

  Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia

• “A good stock-yard had been set up; a storehouse had also been built; a garden had been fenced in, and contained lettuce, radishes, melons, cucumbers.”

  Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia

• “The runs about it are very extensive; the natives few and inoffensive, and the stock-yard etc., left there, renders it very complete.”

  Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia

• “Now the train was passing the elevator, the grim storage-tanks for oil, a creamery, a lumber-yard, a stock-yard muddy and trampled and stinking.”

  The Romance of Sinclair Lewis

• “But these places were few and far between at the time of which I write; the stations were mere passing places, long side-tracks, with perhaps a stock-yard and section house once in a while, but generally without buildings or even switch lights.”

  Danger Signals Remarkable, Exciting and Unique Examples of the Bravery, Daring and Stoicism in the Midst of Danger of Train Dispatchers and Railroad Engineers

• “I never afterward purchased stable or stock-yard manure, though I could often have used it to advantage; for I did not think it safe to purchase this kind of fertilizer for a farm where large numbers of animals are kept.”

  The Fat of the Land The Story of an American Farm

• “I try to turn back to the land each year more than I take from it, but I do not dare to go to a stock-yard for any part of my supply.”

  The Fat of the Land The Story of an American Farm

• “From this man William learnt that he had entirely gone out of his way; and that in the morning his best plan would be not to attempt to regain the road in the way he had lost it, but to take the track that led from the stock-yard in the vicinity to the head station; whence he would find a well-beaten line to the main road.”

  Fern Vale (Volume 1) or the Queensland Squatter

• “For some time previously to muster-day, the stock-keepers have been very busy drawing their herds by degrees as near the stock-yard as possible; and when the day arrives, the whole are driven into the yard to be inspected.”

  Trade and Travel in the Far East or Recollections of twenty-one years passed in Java, Singapore, Australia and China.

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