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  • I heard my papapa grumbling and trampling and then ittying off to the dyeworks where he rabbited, and then my mum called in in a very respectful goloss as she did now I was growing up big and strong:

    Where's the show? John Myles Aavedal 2010

  • And there, among them, Liat Chokavi walking briskly to the east, toward the warehouses and laborers 'quarters, the dyeworks and the weavers.

    A Shadow in Summer 2006

  • He'd have to ask the council director about the mine and the dyeworks.

    Alector's Choice Modesitt, L. E. 2005

  • You don't want to work at what's here, you join the Cadmians, or go someplace else, or you get stuck in the dyeworks or the mine.

    Alector's Choice Modesitt, L. E. 2005

  • Artfibers develops its own products in conjunction with spinners worldwide, and operates its own dyeworks and packaging operations.

    A Passion for Knitting Nancy J. Thomas 2002

  • Added to them was a stench of dyeworks and murex-shell middens on the mainland; but sailing along the coast and camping ashore every night, he had gotten used to that by now.

    Time Patrolman Anderson, Poul, 1926-2001 1983

  • And then, of course, there was the skill, the accumulated knowledge and ingenuity, behind dyeworks and glassworks, not to mention ships less frail than they looked, since in the future they would ply as far as Britain ....

    Time Patrolman Anderson, Poul, 1926-2001 1983

  • There are numerous bleaching-fields, print-fields and dyeworks famous for their Turkey-red, soap works, chemical works and potteries.

    Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon" Various

  • M.P. The manufacture of iron and steel, and the weaving of linen and other cloth, are the two principal industries; but there are also bleachfields, printfields, dyeworks, sawmills, cornmills and malt-houses; and the manufacture of glass, needles and wire is carried on.

    Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon" Various

  • Mr Bloom's eye followed its line and saw again the dyeworks 'van drawn up before Drago's.

    Ulysses James Joyce 1911

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