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Examples
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The chaise was soon ready, and Mrs Charlton and Cecilia were rising to take leave of the company, when a man and horse galloped full speed into the inn-yard, and in less than a minute, Morrice bounced into the room.
Cecilia 2008
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“Where is that young fool going?” asked the count, drawing Pierrotin into the inn-yard.
A Start in Life 2007
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It was wheeled into an inn-yard and put under a guard of soldiers.
A Woman of Thirty 2007
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He shook hands with a score of them, as they rode out of the inn-yard on their old nags, waving his hat to them splendidly as he smoked his cigar in the inn-gate.
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The Prosecutor disproves this by stating that Rey talked with the inn maids and servants, asked if his master was up, and stood in the inn-yard, grooming the horses, with his master by his side, neither speaking to the other.
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Mr. Fenwick took the other hand, when I had stept out of the coach, and then (with so much pride, as made me ashamed of myself) they hurried me between them, through the inn-yard, and into the room they had engaged for us; blessing themselves, all the way for my coming down
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What horse was that which galloped out of the inn-yard ten minutes after Lady Maria had gone to her chamber?
The Virginians 2006
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Going into the inn-yard I had a great deal of learned discourse with an old ostler about the glanders in horses.
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From the inn-yard I went to my own private room and made some dottings in my note-book, and then went down again to the parlour, which I found unoccupied.
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While he was arguing with the boy in the inn-yard, a person came up to him, and saluting him by his name, inquired how all the good family did in
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