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Examples
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Will the Elephants support legislation requiring landlords to allow chicken-coops on balconies?
Chickens for Health Care... e_moon60 2010
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"Talk to 'em about th 'last election, or chicken-coops, or anything you please, while I take a look' round an 'sec how we're goin' t 'get this job done."
The Aztec Treasure-House Thomas Allibone Janvier
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"Foxes are dangerous for chicken-coops in the spring when the fowls have to feed their families."
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We were so close to the shore that the branches of a low-hanging tree swept across the top of the lighter, and it was this branch that caused the turmoil as the craft passed through it, causing everything to be torn from the roof; trunks, bags, and chicken-coops, in a disordered mass.
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Its housewives then bustled about their gardens or their chicken-coops, at the rear of the houses, and a dozen old men gathered slowly at the post-office store to resume the task of doing nothing.
A Husband by Proxy Jack Steele
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On the roof was an indiscriminate mass of chicken-coops with feathered occupants; and humanity.
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Uncle Gerald promised to give me some boards for my chicken-coops; perhaps he would add a few more if he knew what we wanted them for.
Apples, Ripe and Rosy, Sir Mary Catherine Crowley
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I saw the negroes carrying some long boxes built like chicken-coops.
Forty Years a Gambler on the Mississippi George H. Devol
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His mother wondered at the interest manifested in the repair of the chicken-coops.
Apples, Ripe and Rosy, Sir Mary Catherine Crowley
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"Maybe the owner ain't got the cash to put up decent chicken-coops for folks to live in," Grandpa sputtered, "but if I was him I'd dig ditches for a living before I'd put humans into pigpens like these."
Across the Fruited Plain Florence Crannell Means 1935
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