pigpens

With many mouths to feed but a good deal of free labor -- Kenny is the youngest of nine children -- the family cast about for a new business opportunity and started breeding guppies in the concrete pigpens.

Swimming Upstream Donald Frazier 2010

He declined to let me have a look at the pigpens to verify the age-old rumor that pigs are kept on wooden slats in order to get around the law that they cannot be raised on the Holy Land.

Jan McGirk: Swine Flu Outbreak in Israel? 2009

When I was 9, the Cultural Revolution began, and they were sent to clean pigpens and be barefoot doctors.

Lament For China's Past 2008

Like most of the 6,000 pig farmers in Malaysia, a country where the Muslim majority considers pork haram, or untouchable, she and her family have lived in an isolated world of primitive, wooden pigpens.

Burying The Bacon 2008

It's an automatic system to flush the pigshit out of the pigpens.

How To Deal With Pirates (American, not Somalian) 2008

There were a half dozen pigpens, most of which had signs of being occupied until the past few days.

Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine 2004

Leaning against the pigpens in Romton market-place was a wizened old Irishman, obviously a tramp.

Down and Out in Paris and London 2004

There were a half dozen pigpens, most of which had signs of being occupied until the past few days.

Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine 2004

There were stables and pigpens with all the smells that one might expect.

Enchantment Card, Orson Scott 1999

Goodbye, Gaius Marius, you upstart from the pigpens of Arpinum, you non-Roman.

The First Man in Rome McCullough, Colleen, 1937- 1990