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Example sentences from the Web for barn doorSometimes the eggs of purple coots are placed under the barn-door fowl. Jungle Folk|Douglas Dewar Friedrich cautiously rises; dresses; takes his money, his new red roquelaure, unbolts the Barn-door, and walks out. History Of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Vol. VII. (of XXI.)|Thomas Carlyle Sitting in my barn-door study I see a vesper sparrow fly up and alight on the telephone wire with nesting-material in her beak. Under the Maples|John Burroughs A barn-door fowl is preferable to any other, only that it cannot be fatted in so short a time. The Cook and Housekeeper's Complete and Universal Dictionary; Including a System of Modern Cookery, in all Its Various Branches,|Mary Eaton
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