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  • The beauty of the book, for me, is to see the many small triumphs the family experiences as they raise their son but also how the various mini-disasters they experience -- such as Hikaru accidently being locked in a tool-shed at school -- are in a strange way part of the growing experience.

    Manga Before Flowers — Review: With the Light, Vol 1 and 2 | Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources 2008

  • These, by the bye, were placed almost horizontally to catch the eye of the passing mono-rail passengers above, and so served admirably to roof over a tool-shed and a mushroom-shed for

    The War in the Air Herbert George 2006

  • And Sears offset its tool-shed aesthetic with a "softer side," which would've included the link its Kmart unit had to Martha Stewart--until the post-merger firm began to shut over 25% of the Kmart stores.

    The Week Ahead: June 19-23 People To Watch: June 19-23 Forbes.com staff 2006

  • An old bicycle was found in a tool-shed and handed over to me.

    The Thirty-Nine Steps 2005

  • In a tool-shed at the bottom of the garden, lay the relics of building-materials, left by masons lately employed to repair a part of the premises.

    Villette 2003

  • We were in the tool-shed making boats, and Susan came past the door.

    The Waves 2003

  • Lucky charged after him, grabbed him by the sleeve, and slung him against the tool-shed beside the woodpile.

    Texas! Chase Brown, Sandra, 1948- 1991

  • Chapter Nine THE BOX FROM THE WRECK Contents - Prev/Next THE first thing that the children did after breakfast was to fetch the precious box and take it out to the tool-shed in the garden.

    Five On A Treasure Island Blyton, Enid, 1898?-1968 1967

  • They did it in the tool-shed because they didn't want anyone to see them.

    Five On A Treasure Island Blyton, Enid, 1898?-1968 1967

  • Lying beside her was the hammer I had failed to find in the tool-shed and it required only a glance at the back of her head to know the reason why the hammer was there.

    The Satan Bug MacLean, Alistair 1962

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