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  • My older brothers were always interested in the Bristol Hills and around 1927 they rented a small house on the Egypt Valley Road which we called a cabin.

    The Biography of a Rabbit Roy Benson

  • There, Sammy! drink it before it settles; and then go and lie down, my dear, in that dog-kennel of a place they call the cabin.

    Armadale 2003

  • There, Sammy! drink it before it settles; and then go and lie down, my dear, in that dog-kennel of a place they call the cabin.

    Armadale Wilkie Collins 1856

  • I love to see a picture of a good old-fashioned huntin 'cabin.

    Field & Stream 2009

  • I love to see a picture of a good old-fashioned huntin 'cabin.

    Field & Stream 2009

  • A kind of death-wail arose, during which, to hide untimely laughter, I retreated to a large drawer, in the stern of the vessel, called a cabin.

    First footsteps in East Africa 2003

  • As soon as she got to a phone she'd tried calling the cabin.

    Invasion Cook, Robin, 1940- 2000

  • A twinge of pure, bald envy stabbed Kate as she recalled the cabin.

    Kate Armstrong, Patricia 1995

  • He was full of ideas, continually making experiments, and had great plans in regard to the valley and Castle Howard, as he sometimes playfully called their cabin.

    The Last of the Chiefs A Story of the Great Sioux War 1890

  • Screens are built as a protection against wind, and a caboose stands somewhere in the centre, or according to western parlance it might be called a cabin.

    Minnesota and Dacotah 1875

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