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  • A growing number of cattle-market analysts question whether wholesale beef markets — already well above prices a year ago — can keep pace with rising production costs.

    Rising Cattle, Feed Costs May Strain Producer Profits Lester Aldrich 2010

  • It reminds me of being left at my grandmothers while my parents went to the cattle-market to get potatoes and stuff.

    Some of your naughty questions answered « We Don't Count Your Own Visits To Your Blog 2006

  • I know your sparkling town-fountain, too, my Poissy, and am glad to see it near a cattle-market, gushing so freshly, under the auspices of a gallant little sublimated

    Reprinted Pieces 2007

  • Malahin and Yasha take up their quarters in a dirty, cheap hotel in the outskirts of the town, in the square in which the cattle-market is held.

    The Schoolmistress and other stories 2004

  • Beyond the cattle-market in the Ghazze, the dwelling-houses terminate, and low shops and sheds occupy both sides of the street.

    Travels in Arabia 2003

  • Upwards of another half-million has gone to the construction of the new cattle-market at Islington and the model prison at Holloway.

    The Corporation of London, Its Rights and Privileges William Ferneley Allen

  • They make leavened bread of allila [89] and bishna; the cattle-market is within the city, in a square, appropriated to this purpose.

    An Account of Timbuctoo and Housa Territories in the Interior of Africa Abd Salam Shabeeny

  • Vittorio Emanuele, which traverses the city from east to west, having at the eastern end the Po and the Giardino Pubblico, and at the western the model prison, the Carcere giudiziario, the artillery barracks, and the cattle-market.

    The South of France—East Half C. B. Black

  • The cattle-market was on the outskirts of the town, and the business there was over early in the day.

    Women of the Country Gertrude Bone

  • The streets were a seething caldron of cattle-market when we entered, which made us feel like a tea-cup in a bull-ring (or is it thunderstorm?) as we drove through needle's-eye ways bristling with agitated horns.

    An Englishwoman's Love-Letters Anonymous

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