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  • All Vietnamese territories outside US control were declared “free-fire zones” and airplanes rained bombs and napalm on anything that moved, destroying crops and live-stock and entire villages.

    March « 2010 « Bill Ayers 2010

  • Farming for profit: A handbook for the American farmer, a practical work, devoted to agriculture and mechanics, fruit-growing and gardening, live-stock, ... health and secure happiness on the farm by John E Read

    The 2009 Spring/Summer Garden is Done 2009

  • Leah and her sister Rachel, whose names mean “cow” and “ewe,” give Jacob many sons; and their father gives him actual live-stock Leah is described as having “soft (lovely) eyes” (Gen 29: 7).

    Leah: Bible. 2009

  • A practical work, devoted to agriculture and mechanics, fruit-growing and gardening, live-stock, ... health and secure happiness on the farm by John E Read

    The 2009 Spring/Summer Garden is Done 2009

  • People getting upset about wildlife slaughter, while still being okay with live-stock slaughter, is still a step forward, in my opinion.

    Think Progress » ThinkFast AM: June 30, 2006 2006

  • Ford, former president of the Buffalo, New York, live-stock exchange, who bought and sold livestock for meat packing companies in North America.

    THE REAL PEPSI CHALLENGE Stephanie Capparell 2007

  • At the back was a dairy barton, accessible for vehicles and live-stock by a side

    Wessex Tales 2006

  • I think it was Bavaria — yes, Bavaria, it was — in 1862, March, 1862, he issued a proclamation against public grazing of live-stock.

    Babbit 2004

  • The girl still sat in the Poultry, and her weary geese unsold on the stones, illuminated by the hissing lamp of a man who sold rabbits and pigeons and such-like assorted live-stock.

    The Prussian Officer and Other Stories 2003

  • He was introduced to the dog and the cat and the live-stock on the farm.

    The Complete Father Brown 2003

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