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  • We waited for a house-moving trailer to pass before turning on 183rd Street, whizzing by fast-food restaurants, large- size retail stores, discount shoe outlets for large feet, and wig shops for big heads.

    A Kettle of Vultures Sabrina Lamb 2010

  • We waited for a house-moving trailer to pass before turning on 183rd Street, whizzing by fast-food restaurants, large- size retail stores, discount shoe outlets for large feet, and wig shops for big heads.

    A Kettle of Vultures Sabrina Lamb 2010

  • We waited for a house-moving trailer to pass before turning on 183rd Street, whizzing by fast-food restaurants, large- size retail stores, discount shoe outlets for large feet, and wig shops for big heads.

    A Kettle of Vultures Sabrina Lamb 2010

  • In this house-moving the cubs can trot behind their father and mother for a mile or two.

    The Wonders of the Jungle, Book Two Sarath Kumar Ghosh

  • Even a saint may dislike house-moving or spring-cleaning.

    The Cornwall Coast

  • A house-moving firm from Pentonville, however, had engaged to perform the work.

    The Boys of Bellwood School Frank V. Webster

  • There had never been much house-moving in Tipton, and nobody in the village was equipped to undertake even the simple task of conveying the Dobbins dwelling uphill and then down again.

    The Boys of Bellwood School Frank V. Webster

  • And all that did happen was nothing more than a change from late manhood to early senility complicated by a house-moving, bringing with it new hobbies and occupations.

    Art Clive Bell 1922

  • She was a thin little girl, perhaps half a year younger than Jane; and she was as soiled, particularly in respect to hands, brow, chin, and the knees of white stockings, as could be expected of any busybodyish person of nine or ten whose mother is house-moving.

    Seventeen 1915

  • There, directly behind him, he beheld an exclusive little procession consisting of two damsels in single file, the first soiled with house-moving, the second with apple sauce.

    Seventeen 1915

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