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They will breed in every open space, being transformed by their occupants from cloth shelters to wooden huts to iron-roofed structures.
Haiti survivor, Wilson Octaveus: 'This is my wife's head. It has been eaten by dogs' 2010
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In the depths of this yard stood a low, iron-roofed, smoke-begrimed building.
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The ground on the further side of the river is cleared of bush, and only bears a heavy crop of balsam; a few steps onwards bring me in view of a corrugated iron-roofed, plank-sided house, in front of which, towards the great mountain which now towers up into the mist, is a low clearing with a quadrangle of native huts β the barracks.
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βThe copse, the oxen, the lease-hold, the shop, the tavern, the house with the iron-roofed barn, and my heir,β thought he.
Master and Man 2003
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Leah frowned as she walked from the small iron-roofed terminal.
Fugitive Bride Lee, Miranda 1998
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To the eastward, Casa Grande, most famed of all Arizona prehistoric remains, still stands, iron-roofed by a careful government, probably of a later time of abandonment, but still a ruin when first seen by Father Eusebio Kino in 1694.
Mormon Settlement in Arizona A Record of Peaceful Conquest of the Desert James H. McClintock
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This was something better than their own slenderly-built, iron-roofed house in Queensland.
Queensland Cousins Eleanor Luisa Haverfield
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Several large iron-roofed sheds stood by the water's edge.
In Mesopotamia Maurice Nicoll 1918
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I proceeded to give his pedigree, but was interrupted by the arrival of the preacher, and we all went into the weatherboard iron-roofed house of prayer.
My Brilliant Career Miles Franklin 1916
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I preached Paradise to that attentive congregation in the iron-roofed church that natives had been so discouraged from attending.
Cinderella in the South Twenty-Five South African Tales Arthur Shearly Cripps 1910
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