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It has two seats up front (a second row of seats is optional) and a large, high-roofed cargo area in the rear.
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Smaller facilities were available within each high-roofed stall, each of which boasted a bed of thicker straw mixed with moss.
The Lives of Felix Gunderson Sugu Althomsons 2010
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It stood in the high-roofed corridor in front of the lab door and looked down at Zin.
The Search For WondLa Tony DiTerlizzi 2010
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The library was beautiful, high-roofed, with soaring Gothic columns that joined in ogives in the multichambered roof.
Sick Cycle Carousel 2010
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And as a maiden catches on her finely wrought robe the gleam of the moon at the full, as it rises above her high-roofed chamber; and her heart rejoices as she beholds the fair ray; so at that time did Jason uplift the mighty fleece in his hands; and from the shimmering of the flocks of wool there settled on his fair cheeks and brow a red flush like a flame.
The Argonautica 2008
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But as he stepped over the threshold of the high-roofed cave, he found a tortoise there and gained endless delight.
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Their high-roofed houses, with huge beams combin'd.
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But he put away the fat and all the flesh in the high-roofed byre, placing them high up to be a token of his youthful theft.
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And they came unwearied to the high-roofed byres and the drinking-troughs that were before the noble meadow.
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The very next door (No. 46, the Honorable Mrs. Mountnoddy,) is a house of five stories, shooting up proudly into the air, thirty feet above our old high-roofed low-roomed old tenement.
Our Street 2006
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