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The synagogues had been razed or pillaged and stripped, and their interiors used as hen-houses and stables.
O Jerusalem 2010
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The synagogues had been razed or pillaged and stripped, and their interiors used as hen-houses and stables.
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My mother was a farm girl trained as a nurse, but even she knew about foxes and hen-houses.
Harry Fuller: The Next President Has Unfinished Business 2008
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Prayers were recited, his letters were read, his business dispatched, his stables and garden inspected, his hen-houses and kennel, his barn and pigstye visited, always at regular hours.
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Furthermore, the corporate foxes would be chased out of the regulatory hen-houses – the Environmental
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He passed the cow-houses and the hen-houses there installed, and pursued a path into the thick of the saplings, making for one of the bluebell plots.
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For these hen-houses detailed lighting schedules have been developed which normally provide for an illumination period of 14 hours.
10. Mounting of Lighting Installations Frank Ponemunski 1991
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On one hand the hen-houses shall be lighted, on the other hand the hens shall be stimulated to lay more eggs.
10. Mounting of Lighting Installations Frank Ponemunski 1991
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In hen-houses illumination has to fulfill two tasks.
10. Mounting of Lighting Installations Frank Ponemunski 1991
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More likely some rogue in a small way pilfering from hen-houses and backyards by night.
The Leper of Saint Giles Peters, Ellis, 1913- 1981
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