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  • Being from the east coast a cattleguard was a mystery to me that I only read about in the horse books I so loved to read as a child.

    Quiet Paths 2009

  • Kathiesbirds: Being from the east coast a cattleguard was a mystery to me that I only read about in the horse books I ...

    Quiet Paths 2009

  • The tires tharumped across the corroded cattleguard.

    No Mercy Lori Armstrong 2010

  • The tires tharumped across the corroded cattleguard.

    No Mercy Lori Armstrong 2010

  • The horn bleated and it came over the cattleguard, spun fiercely into the yard; it was black and the dust hung behind it and she saw the men in the cab, their elbows and arms in the sun and through the windshield hands turning the wheel and brakes groaned and she had a glimpse of someone in back, someone lying down.

    Lord of Autumn 2009

  • Eventually I get the fawn to the cattleguard, but he blows past it without a look.

    grouse Diary Entry grouse 2008

  • There's a cattleguard that he may be able to jump and stumble across, just a couple hundred meters south.

    grouse Diary Entry grouse 2008

  • Along with the cattleguard that lifted us up high enough off the ground.

    grouse Diary Entry grouse 2007

  • I remember happily discovering the gas company had replaced the gate with a cattleguard, and working my way through a herd of black cows.

    grouse Diary Entry grouse 2006

  • Through the oil field, along the powerline, past the old shed and lone tree, across the dike for the pond, a right turn onto the narrow two-track, up over the steep cattleguard, and I'm there.

    grouse Diary Entry grouse 2005

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