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  • The place was a sort of store-house; containing bags of potatoes and baskets of carrots, onions and turnips.

    Love Letters 2010

  • I ask thee of any kind of stuff, saying, Hast thou brought with thee aught of such a kind? do thou answer, “Plenty. 28” And if they question me of thee, I will praise thee and magnify thee in their eyes and say to them, Get him a store-house and a shop.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • Vico sees this common nature reflected in language, conceived as a store-house of customs, in which the wisdom of successive ages accumulates and is presupposed in the form of a sensus communis or "mental dictionary" by subsequent generations.

    Giambattista Vico Costelloe, Timothy 2008

  • The liver is the seat of pity, the spleen of laughter399 and the kidneys of craft; the lungs are ventilators, the stomach the store-house, and the heart the prop and pillar of the body.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • This means that the blog becomes a store-house for more specialised information on a particular issue and also means that the author/s may be more knowledgeable in that field.

    Archive 2007-05-01 2007

  • This means that the blog becomes a store-house for more specialised information on a particular issue and also means that the author/s may be more knowledgeable in that field.

    British Blogging Power (Part 3) 2007

  • You should be a store-house of tiffin items then ...no wonder your event theme was Breakfasts..

    Riot-of- colour Pulao with Yogurt Curry 2006

  • This place is the more convenient, because it is seldom resorted to but by myself or Hannah, on the above-mentioned account; for it is the general store-house for firing; the wood for constant use being nearer the house.

    Clarissa Harlowe 2006

  • Hence it is essential that there can be no heart without a ventricle, since this must be the source and store-house of the blood.

    On the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals 2005

  • But if you consider what is proper for a man, examine your store-house, see with at faculties you came into the world.

    The Discourses of Epictetus 2004

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