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Adam hastened with long strides, Gyp close to his heels, out of the workyard, and along the highroad leading away from the village and down to the valley.
Adam Bede 2004
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Qwilleran said, "There's a rumor that Ramsbottom is also going to lease twelve acres to the county for a workyard."
The Cat Who Sang For The Birds Braun, Lilian Jackson 1998
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Furthermore, the company is about to lease twelve acres to the county for a workyard, according to my sources.
The Cat Who Sang For The Birds Braun, Lilian Jackson 1998
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If rumors were true, the county was in a disrespectful hurry to grab a chunk of the former Coggin land for a county workyard.
The Cat Who Sang For The Birds Braun, Lilian Jackson 1998
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Worn out with fatigue, hungry and cold -- for the nights were now very chill -- and without a sou in his pocket, poor Gabriel, having wandered for some hours among the streets of this great city, now emptied of all but its crime and destitution, at last found shelter for the night in an empty cask, which had served probably as a dog-kennel in an open workyard into which he strayed.
The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 3, February, 1851 Various
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On Monday, the 5th, the yacht again visited the rock, when Mr. Slight and the artificers returned with her to the workyard, where
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The upper course of the lighthouse at the workyard of Arbroath was completed on the 6th, and the whole of the stones were, therefore, now ready for being shipped to the rock.
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Craw, with his horse and cart, which could now be spared at the workyard, to be employed in carting the stones from Edinburgh to
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The whole of the artificers left the rock at mid-day, when the tender made sail for Arbroath, which she reached about six p.m. The vessel being decorated with colours, and having fired a salute of three guns on approaching the harbour, the workyard artificers, with a multitude of people, assembled at the harbour, when mutual cheering and congratulations took place between those afloat and those on the quays.
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The writer called them to the quarter-deck and informed them that, having been one mouth afloat, in terms of their agreement they were now at liberty to return to the workyard at Arbroath if they preferred this to continuing at the Bell Rock.
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