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  • Then they followed the cow-path through more woods and thickets and scattered glades, and dropped down the hillside to where the farm-house, poised on the lip of the big canon, came into view only when they were right upon it.

    Chapter XXIV 2010

  • Then I had ridden up through the vine-clad hills and rolling pastures of the ranch, and arrived at the farm-house in time for another drink and supper.

    Chapter 1 2010

  • Circling the base of the knoll, he picked up with his horse and rode on to the farm-house.

    Chapter VIII 2010

  • Not a farm-house was in sight, and the change from the city crowding was essentially satisfying.

    Chapter VIII 2010

  • Back at the farm-house, Daylight mounted and rode on away from the ranch and into the wilder canons and steeper steeps beyond.

    Chapter VIII 2010

  • Here, at a small farm-house surrounded by large outbuildings, the road ended.

    Chapter IX 2010

  • And so he was content, with Dede at his side, to watch the procession of the days and seasons from the farm-house perched on the canon-lip; to ride through crisp frosty mornings or under burning summer suns; and to shelter in the big room where blazed the logs in the fireplace he had built, while outside the world shuddered and struggled in the storm-clasp of a southeaster.

    Chapter XXVI 2010

  • No one slept in the thin, frame farm-house that night when John

    Chapter 4 2010

  • Here, poised above a big forested canon, and looking out upon Sonoma Valley, was a small farm-house.

    Chapter VIII 2010

  • Near by was the smoke-blackened ruin of the farm-house, fired by the Russians when they retreated from the river-bed.

    The Yellow Peril 2010

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