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  • They flooded the horse-shed where the school children stabled their mounts in the winter weather.

    Riders of the Silences John Frederick

  • McMullin's horse-shed, before the diuretic effect of tin flavored with blasting-powder could be observed by the attentive eye of science.

    Stories by American Authors, Volume 1 Various

  • David Bell left his wife at the platform and drove to the horse-shed.

    Further Chronicles of Avonlea Lucy Maud 1920

  • Of late he had been digging in the back yard and had ransacked the hay in his horse-shed for the concealed leather chest he imagined he would find.

    McTeague 1920

  • She ran as fast as she could drag Molly's fat legs, to the horse-shed where Mr. Wendell had tied his horses and left the surrey.

    Understood Betsy Dorothy Canfield Fisher 1918

  • David Bell left his wife at the platform and drove to the horse-shed.

    Further Chronicles of Avonlea 1908

  • Of late he had been digging in the back yard and had ransacked the hay in his horse-shed for the concealed leather chest he imagined he would find.

    McTeague 1899

  • A small corral and horse-shed is near by, with enough hay for the ponies, of which each rider has two or three.

    Winter Weather 1896

  • The faithful wife with the sad mouth and the habitual look of anxiety in her faded eyes came to the door at the sound of wheels and went doggedly to the horse-shed to help him unharness.

    The Flag-Raising Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin 1889

  • Clark, the founder of Clark University of Worcester, Mass., began his great fortune by making toy wagons in a horse-shed.

    How to Succeed or, Stepping-Stones to Fame and Fortune Orison Swett Marden 1887

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