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  • Some was thrown into the fires, the rest placed in wheel-barrows and wheeled into the moor directly in the track of the fugitives.

    A Changed Man 2006

  • You knows as how the witches in Wales fly upon broom-sticks: but here was flying without any broom-stick, or thing in the varsal world, and firing of pistols in the air, and blowing of trumpets, and swinging, and rolling of wheel-barrows upon a wire

    The Expedition of Humphry Clinker 2004

  • In order to furnish himself with carts, waggons, ploughs, harrows, wheel-barrows, hurdles, and all such necessary utensils of husbandry, there would be an absolute necessity of wheelwrights or cartwrights, one at least to each division.

    From London to Land's End 2003

  • For he had a turn for mechanics; had invented a plough in his district, had ordered wheel-barrows from

    Mrs. Dalloway 2003

  • With ceremonial markings painted on their faces and voices raised in song, they pushed wheel-barrows, poured concrete and mixed paint for their new dwellings.

    Living History Hillary Rodham Clinton 2003

  • In order to furnish himself with carts, waggons, ploughs, harrows, wheel-barrows, hurdles, and all such necessary utensils of husbandry, there would be an absolute necessity of wheelwrights or cartwrights, one at least to each division.

    From London to Land's End 2003

  • In order to furnish himself with carts, waggons, ploughs, harrows, wheel-barrows, hurdles, and all such necessary utensils of husbandry, there would be an absolute necessity of wheelwrights or cartwrights, one at least to each division.

    From London to Land's End 2003

  • With ceremonial markings painted on their faces and voices raised in song, they pushed wheel-barrows, poured concrete and mixed paint for their new dwellings.

    Living History Hillary Rodham Clinton 2003

  • In some instances, the demands for capital items are limited to simple tools, such as moulding tables, steel fabricated moulds, wheel-barrows and pick-axes, but these are indispensable to the production cycle.

    Chapter 5 1985

  • Gardeners came by arrangement, and removed in wheel-barrows those that had inadvertently remained behind.

    The Fellowship of the Ring Tolkien, J. R. R. 1965

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