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  • Best urinal-Public restroom in a doctors building-a huge thing that protruded 3-4 feet out from the wall that you could straddle, STRADDLE I say, while you found relief.

    Tuesday, Feb. 16 – The Bleat. 2010

  • Mr. Sherman and his wife, Lisa, a pastry chef, came across a nondescript building-a former bodega-near the Manhattan College campus and set about creating a small French-American bistro called the Riverdale Garden.

    Take That, Arthur Avenue! Riverdale Garden Grows in Bronx 2005

  • He's one of the artists who lives in the building-a potter.

    Beyond World's End Lackey, Mercedes 2001

  • He's one of the artists who lives in the building-a potter.

    Beyond World's End Lackey, Mercedes 2000

  • Mitch screamed silently as he stepped backward, his glazed stare darting back and forth from the burning building-a Styles and Hayden building'to the ambulance speeding off down the street, carrying a severely burned womantothe hospital.

    Emily And The Stranger Barton, Beverly 1998

  • Slith and the remaining Sivak crept over to the side of the nearest building-a small thatch-roofed storage shed.

    The Doom Brigade Weis, Margaret 1996

  • Slith and the remaining Sivak crept over to the side of the nearest building-a small thatch-roofed storage shed.

    The Doom Brigade Weis, Margaret 1996

  • Slith and the remaining Sivak crept over to the side of the nearest building-a small thatch-roofed storage shed.

    The Doom Brigade Weis, Margaret 1996

  • Beyond the armory are the foundations of yet another building-a barracks for the new Black Guard of the port town to replace the tents that Quenta and the others are now using.

    The Magic Engineer Modesitt, L. E. 1994

  • On the southwest corner of the square was the town's only stone building-a squat, dusty cube with rusty bars on the windows.

    The Waste Lands King, Stephen, 1947- 1991

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