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  • He had connected himself with young Halder, and his associates, from whom, while he received instructions relative to the stables and the dog-kennels, he returned, with suitable edification, lessons on the culinary art.

    Camilla 2008

  • Again, there is a little grant of some thousands for Prince Albert's stables and dog-kennels!

    Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, October 16, 1841 Various

  • It is the custom in Brittany, after a certain time, to dig up the bones of the dead, and preserve their skulls in little square boxes, like dog-kennels, with a heart-shaped opening through which the skull is visible.

    Brittany & Its Byways Fanny Bury Palliser

  • It takes in farming industry, manors and factories, cities and peasant-cabins, and even dog-kennels.

    The Wonderful Adventures of Nils 1922

  • There was a model farm and dairy; a polo-field, and an enclosed riding-ring for the children; and dog-kennels and pigeon-houses, greenhouses and deer-parks -- one was prepared for bear-pits and a menagerie.

    The Metropolis Upton Sinclair 1923

  • The very dairies, the stables, the dog-kennels were things to be wondered at and studied; and in the vast halls were single pictures over which Thyrsis would fain have lingered for hours.

    Love's Pilgrimage Upton Sinclair 1923

  • She crept stealthily to the back of the house and approached the dog-kennels.

    From the Valley of the Missing Grace Miller White 1912

  • Jack, who now felt excessively hungry, crawled over and between chests until he found himself in a hole infinitely inferior to the dog-kennels which received his father's pointers.

    The World's Greatest Books — Volume 06 — Fiction Various 1909

  • The banks were lined with the villages, composed of miserable mud hovels of the fellahs, scarcely rising to the dignity of dog-kennels in more favored countries, and all along the shore could be seen the poor creatures drawing the water with swoops to irrigate the land.

    Recollections and reflections : an auto of half a century and more, 1906

  • Graben, or disused town moat, turned road, stood the Jägerhaus -- a long, barn-like building, the entire ground-floor whereof was occupied by the dog-kennels, which opened to the back on paddocks.

    A German Pompadour Being the Extraordinary History of Wilhelmine van Grävenitz, Landhofmeisterin of Wirtemberg 1905

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