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  • Mr. B had paid the first year's rent on his club's lake-shore site plus a site at a smaller lake and then failed to pay rent after that for more than a decade.

    Confucianism and the Impact of Sociopathy, Part II 2009

  • In the lake-shore district of Mangochi, hundreds of people were left homeless after a heavy rain storm Thursday night blew off roofs, said district official Harry Chipeni.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2005

  • It had a population of some three hundred families, dwelling in small cottages, which were scattered over a pleasant area of lake-shore property.

    Jennie Gerhardt 2004

  • After dinner they drove along the lake-shore and out through an open bit of tree-blocked prairie land, the moon shining in a clear sky, filling the fields and topping the lake with a silvery effulgence.

    The Titan 2004

  • To the left the bright green of the willows by the lake-shore.

    The Plumed Serpent 2003

  • The husband of the poor woman of the lake-shore, returning from his labours in the field, approached the gates of the village towards sunset, thinking, no doubt, of nothing but repose and the evening meal.

    The Plumed Serpent 2003

  • Or they passed with a curious slow inevitability up the lake-shore, with a heavy red jar of water perched on one shoulder, one arm over the head, holding the rim of the jar.

    The Plumed Serpent 2003

  • The two hundred acres along the lake-shore were mostly lost to him.

    The Plumed Serpent 2003

  • They had been crossing a bay of the lake-shore, and were nearing the hotel.

    The Plumed Serpent 2003

  • Hotel Company, who had undertaken to develop the lake-shore, and who had gone bankrupt during the various revolutions.

    The Plumed Serpent 2003

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