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We took a look at the threshing-floor, the barn, the corn-stacks, the outhouses, the windmill, the cattle-shed, the vegetables, and the hempfields; everything was, as
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'By the gods,' said Philip, 'it makes Pella look like a cattle-shed.
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'You think I would pay to enter that cattle-shed?'
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What they saw there startled them beyond measure, for seated on a log, outside of the cattle-shed, was a man, with a straggling, unkempt beard, vacantly gazing into space.
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Then they go to the cattle-shed and wake up the cattle, crying, 'Poraiya, god of the door, watchman of the window, open the door, Nand Gowal is coming.'
The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II
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His eyes alighted on a painting which represented a cow standing near a cattle-shed.
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Randal saw the grim visage of Stirn peering out of a cattle-shed, and felt undone.
The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 5, No. 1, January, 1852
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I replied, that while breakfast was preparing I could meet his wishes, and led him to a large Hindoo edifice close by (or rather the remains), which a Mogul emperor had partially destroyed and thereby desecrated, the place having since been occasionally used by the townspeople as a cattle-shed, or for rubbish.
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In his talk to the Squire the preceding day, he had gone a little too far -- farther than he would have done but for his desire of escaping the cattle-shed and short-horns.
The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 5, No. 1, January, 1852
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The Bishnois do not burn their dead, but bury them below the cattle-shed or in some place like a pen frequented by cattle.
The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II
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