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  • Thekla led the way to the stable, tucked under the hill at the back, and presiding over a linhay, as she had already learnt to call the tiny farm-court, containing accommodation for two cows, a pig, and sundry fowls.

    Modern Broods Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862

  • I have made the old farmhouse my _corps de logis_, with some outlying places for kitchen, laundry, and two spare bedrooms, which run along the east wall of the farm-court, not without some picturesque effect.

    Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Volume V (of 10) 1824

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