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Of course our low hero was a self valeter by choice of need so up he got up whatever is meant by a stourbridge clay kitchen-ette and lithargogalenu fowlhouse for the sake of akes (the umpple does not fall very far from the dumpertree) which the moromelodious jigsmith, in defiance of the Uncontrollable Birth
Finnegans Wake 2006
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Dey burn de ginhouse, de shop, de buggyhouse, de turkeyhouse an 'de fowlhouse.
Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves South Carolina Narratives, Part 2 Work Projects Administration
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I felt a certain delicacy after that about intruding on his solitude with the burden of my sex and wifehood heavy upon me, but he always seems very glad to see me, and runs at once to his fowlhouse to look for fresh eggs for my tea; so perhaps he regards me as a pleasing exception to the rule.
The Solitary Summer Elizabeth von Arnim 1903
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My bedroom that night had much the character of an outhouse or fowlhouse.
Two Summers in Guyenne Edward Harrison Barker 1885
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My fowlhouse stood in a tempting position, and still resenting his repulse during the evening, one of them proposed to operate upon my birds.
Desperate Remedies Thomas Hardy 1884
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At daybreak a boy, the son of Ratcliff, the signal man, started out to look for his goats, and as they sometimes passed the night in the old fowlhouse, he looked in for them.
The Book of the Bush Containing Many Truthful Sketches Of The Early Colonial Life Of Squatters, Whalers, Convicts, Diggers, And Others Who Left Their Native Land And Never Returned George Dunderdale 1862
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The old lady in the red petticoat seemed to swallow the lie very glibly, and dispatched the girl to the fowlhouse for three eggs, as she had before done her cousin; but having been cautioned against taking the talking eggs, she conceived that these must needs be the most valuable, and therefore made a point of selecting those three which seemed to be the greatest gossips.
Journal of a Residence among the Negroes in the West Indies Matthew Gregory 1845
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a long time afterwards -- the mansion was adjacent to a court or yard which the quadrangular homestead surrounded with its barns, horse and cattle stalls, sheep pens and fowlhouse.
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