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It was situated against the back of the cottage, and surrounded on the sides which were exposed by a pig-stye and a clear pool of water.
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The prisoners took their turn at the pumps with the rest, and when their strength gave out, they were put in irons and allowed to rest upon a wet sail soaked with the drainings of a pig-stye under which it was spread.
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Mr. Ketchum, when enlightened by his wife, could see that his guest was in a bad way; and one day it chanced that they were left alone in the library, where Job was most unromantically engaged in looking up plans for a model pig-stye, while he incidentally refreshed himself with his favorite confection, molasses candy.
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Certainly it was as small an estate as can well be imagined, consisting of exactly two acres, pasture, arable, cottage, and pig-stye included, but undoubted freehold, without a flaw in the title.
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The woman went round the cabin, and the pig-stye, and the patch of meagre gooseberry-bushes, throwing the uncertain torch-light on every dark hole or corner; but no one was to be seen.
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'She's washing Bobby; he tumbled right into the pig-stye, and came out
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House; therefore we may suppose that the Saint had his house, and possibly his pig-stye, built of this same stone.
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If a man have a pig-stye to build, or a log-house in the woods, he may hit upon an agreeable outline; but let him set out freely and with all deliberation to build something that shall be beautiful, and he fails.
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He conducted us through the numerous buildings, from the boiling-house to the pig-stye.
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Frenchmen called it; but he thought it more like a pig-stye: there, in a room with two straw beds, they had two pigeons for supper, on a dirty cloth, with wooden handled knives.
The Life of the Right Honourable Horatio Lord Viscount Nelson, Volume 1
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