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This simple stand stood in the shadows of the late afternoon sun -- wall-less and dirt-floored, a simple wood structure painted deep green -- mostly roof -- reminiscent of barn boards and with generous wood benches loaded with premium produce.
Steve Poses: On the Road: Farm Stands of the Hudson River Valley, NY Steve Poses 2010
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The players, along with scores of others fleeing the waves, spent the night huddled in the frigid dirt-floored field house.
Baseball Helps Japanese Town Mend Gordon Fairclough 2011
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He grew up in dirt-floored cabins in the Tennessee forest.
An Inexplicable Gift for Fame Henry Allen 2011
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The parlor of the Roose house was simple, dirt-floored and bare-windowed.
The Tudors: King Takes Queen Elizabeth Massie 2010
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He passes beneath an arched entryway, its portcullis raised, and strides down a dank, dirt-floored tunnel that dips beneath the coliseum walls, then rises gradually, opening out onto a bullring circled by tier upon tier of stone benches.
THE BOYS FROM SANTA CRUZ Jonathan Nasaw 2010
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The language school placed us with a family whose two room dirt-floored house was divided between their living space (including an open cooking fire) and student residents like us.
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Mawai now has a tiny Chinese-made hydro turbine in the stream just outside his dirt-floored home.
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He passes beneath an arched entryway, its portcullis raised, and strides down a dank, dirt-floored tunnel that dips beneath the coliseum walls, then rises gradually, opening out onto a bullring circled by tier upon tier of stone benches.
THE BOYS FROM SANTA CRUZ Jonathan Nasaw 2010
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He would need to finalize renovation plans with the city but already has approvals from the Landmarks Commission to excavate a dirt-floored basement for duplexes, to add roof terraces and to alter some stained glass windows.
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A real big dirt-floored space lit only by a few bare bulbs hanging here and there, a mostly empty space except for some crates, a small cage with a monkey inside—actually a mean-looking sort of monkey I knew from the Discovery Channel—baboon? was that the name?
To Fetch a Thief Spencer Quinn 2010
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