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  • Kapiton — the same Kapiton who was the subject of the conversation reported above — was gossiping somewhat too attentively with Tatiana, Gerasim beckoned him to him, led him into the cartshed, and taking up a shaft that was standing in a corner by one end, lightly, but most significantly, menaced him with it.

    Mumu 2006

  • The principal farmer in Woodhall was riding home leisurely from the fair late in the evening, when at a point in the road between Langton and Woodhall, about two fields from Old Woodhall Church, where a cartshed then stood contiguous to the road, two men rushed out from the concealment of the shed and seized his bridle.

    Records of Woodhall Spa and Neighbourhood Historical, Anecdotal, Physiographical, and Archaeological, with Other Matter James Conway Walter

  • Behind an ubiquitous hedge Laura and Mrs. Bradley were deciding which of them should go to the police and which should remain to watch the cartshed.

    The Dancing Druids Mitchell, Gladys, 1901- 1948

  • They went side by side along the road and then through the open cartshed which seemed to straddle it.

    The Dancing Druids Mitchell, Gladys, 1901- 1948

  • Laura, with a curious but half-scared glance towards the dark mass of the farmhouse, followed the others up the muddy, cobbled road which ran through the cartshed, and all three were soon on the miry ascent which led towards the circle of standing stones.

    The Dancing Druids Mitchell, Gladys, 1901- 1948

  • Behind an ubiquitous hedge Laura and Mrs. Bradley were deciding which of them should go to the police and which should remain to watch the cartshed.

    The Dancing Druids Mitchell, Gladys, 1901- 1948

  • At the foot of the hill they swung left again through a gateway which led to an open cartshed.

    The Dancing Druids Mitchell, Gladys, 1901- 1948

  • The wagon made heavy weather of the turn at the bottom of the hill, but was into the farmyard at last, and there was left, an innocent-looking adjunct, in the cartshed, whilst the carter went off to his breakfast, or perhaps to polish up his holy lights, whatever these ostensible manifestations of dark superstition (for as such Mrs. Bradley interpreted them) might be.

    The Dancing Druids Mitchell, Gladys, 1901- 1948

  • They reached the farm and found the police cars parked beneath the cartshed.

    The Dancing Druids Mitchell, Gladys, 1901- 1948

  • He set off with a spring, and in a moment was flying through the air, almost out of the door of the shed, the upper half of which was open, showing outside the drizzling rain, the filthy yard, the cattle standing disconsolate against the black cartshed, and at the back of all the grey-green wall of the wood.

    Sons and Lovers 1913

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