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Examples
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It would take no time at all to thrust his prize to the very bottom of the full cornbin, newly supplied for the few days of the horses 'stay.
The Holy Thief Peters, Ellis, 1913-1995 1992
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Never once had he cast a glance towards the cornbin in its shadowy niche.
The Holy Thief Peters, Ellis, 1913-1995 1992
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Beth stood among them, watching them for a little, then went to the cornbin in the stable, and got some oats.
The Beth Book Being a Study of the Life of Elizabeth Caldwell Maclure, a Woman of Genius Sarah Grand
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'Prince' was its pampered tenant, she opened the cornbin, and, entering the loose-box, offered the cob a handful of crushed oats.
Leonora Arnold Bennett 1899
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Yet it must be owned that he found the lessening of the strain on his memory and attention not wholly unwelcome when Mr. Chifney, sitting beside him on the big, white-painted cornbin opposite Diplomacy's loose-box, began to tell him of the old times when he -- a little fellow of eight to ten years of age -- had been among the boys in his cousin,
The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance Lucas Malet 1891
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Lempriere had entrusted him in a cornbin of the stable which Mdme. de
St George's Cross 1870
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They had even ejected the carpet snake that lived there and killed the mice which levied toll on the doctor's cornbin; but the snake, like other ejected persons, was continually harking back to its old quarters, and so this morning, when Ducky rushed into the stable, the first thing which met her gaze was Slippy, the snake, curled up in a heap just inside the door, and of course there was promptly a fuss, for not all the arguments of the others about the absolute harmlessness of Slippy could convince Ducky that the creature was anything but a most dangerous foe.
The Adventurous Seven Their Hazardous Undertaking Bessie Marchant 1901
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