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The place looked like a magnified baby-house, and might have been taken down from a shelf in a toy-shop.
Washington Square 2003
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Eva and her friend were soon busy with their dolls and baby-house, and poor Ned was entirely forgotten.
Harper's Young People, March 2, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly Various
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She stood before the baby-house with her hands stretched out, and jumped up and down, her eyes shining like diamonds.
The Apple Dumpling and Other Stories for Young Boys and Girls Unknown
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What was written on it was, "A baby-house for my little darling Sarah."
The Apple Dumpling and Other Stories for Young Boys and Girls Unknown
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Let woman consent to be a doll, and there was no finery so gorgeous, no baby-house so costly, but she might aspire to share its lavish delights; -- let her ask simply for an equal chance to learn, to labor, and to live, and it was as if that same doll should open its lips, and propound Euclid's forty-seventh proposition.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 16, February, 1859 Various
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Was that immense building in the corner her baby-house?
Harper's Young People, January 6, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly Various
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The lively prattle of the girl, while constructing her baby-house; her playful arrogation of authority and command over her playmates, and her serio-comic administering of commendation or reproof in the assumed character of "mistress" or "mother," are all instances of a similar kind.
A Practical Enquiry into the Philosophy of Education James Gall
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To build a huge house, and furnish it lavishly, -- what is this but to play baby-house on a large scale?
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 2, No. 14, December 1858 Various
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She had intended to go through her baby-house, chastising all its inmates, but instead she took a picture-book, and lay down on the lounge by the window.
Harper's Young People, January 6, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly Various
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A sampan whose owners are too poor to supply themselves with decent clothing, will be sure to have its tawdry baby-house and doll idol, and it frequently has in addition
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No. 6, December 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Various
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