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Early in the morning, before she had risen, he cleared away the snow that obstructed her path to the milk-house, drew water from the well, and brought the wood from the out-house, where, to his perpetual astonishment, he found his store always replenished by an invisible hand.
Chapter 12 2010
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I lay there that night in an out-house, shivering with the cold and at the same time burning with fever.
THE DREAM OF DEBS 2010
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She had learned something of the death of the convict, and she knew that the hound was being kept in the out-house on the evening that Sir Henry was coming to dinner.
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The out-house, well-known to us although we now had plumbing, and the horror of the birds 'death by excrement, as well as other features of the story's beginning, gripped our attention.
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On an emergency he could keep the hound in the out-house at Merripit, but it was always a risk, and it was only on the supreme day, which he regarded as the end of all his efforts, that he dared to do it.
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The media would still compete based on their stable of in-house and external out-house?
Weigel resigns 2010
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The out-house drama, always the first in the momentous day, was filled with the sort of detail that my brother and I found interesting.
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He dreaded the trip to the out-house, where many of the birds had gotten mired in the filth beneath the hole and set up a screeching clamor of despair that drew their kind to throw themselves against the hut in rescue attempts.
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As a child sleeping overnight at Uncle Norman's farm, it was necessary to use the "out-house".
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So through flurries of wings, shuffling so as not to step on their feet or backs, he made his way to the out-house and completed his necessary actions with his eyes shut.
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