Does the writer delicately hesitate to call a sty a sty, or has the internment of the food-hog really begun?. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, May 23, 1917] Reference
The old cock-robin to the sty is come. From Wordnik.com. [2010 » January] Reference
In the room over the sty is a bin which must be filled with the fallen apples before any nuts can be gathered. ". From Wordnik.com. [Driven Back to Eden] Reference
The house assumed the appearance of a deserted sty. From Wordnik.com. [Skookum Chuck Fables Bits of History, Through the Microscope] Reference
On going to the pig-sty she found a dead little pig. From Wordnik.com. [Three Years in Tristan da Cunha] Reference
We did not care the worst to hear of human sty or den. From Wordnik.com. [A Book for All Readers An Aid to the Collection, Use, and Preservation of Books and the Formation of Public and Private Libraries] Reference
Then she opened the doors of the sty and waved her wand. From Wordnik.com. [Young Folks Treasury, Volume 2 (of 12)] Reference
Patriot Pig H.Q. The once-crowded sty lay dark and still. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, February 12, 1919] Reference
The clergy wallowed in a sty of corruption and debauchery. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 109, November, 1866] Reference
And the girls heard the hungry grunting of a pig in its sty. From Wordnik.com. [A Little Miss Nobody Or, With the Girls of Pinewood Hall] Reference
Then the two men forcibly drew him to the gate of the pig sty. From Wordnik.com. [Olaf the Glorious A Story of the Viking Age] Reference
You would be quite satisfied to sit like a lot of hogs in a sty in. From Wordnik.com. [The Mystery of the Four Fingers] Reference
The other features people who wallow in the sty that is their world. From Wordnik.com. [Otto Penzler: Noir Fiction Is About Losers, Not Private Eyes] Reference
Dr. Palfrey, as "his sty," in whose comfortless shelter, Winslow and. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 18, April, 1859] Reference
"Such a sty stuck right down under our noses!" muttered the mortified. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 83, September, 1864] Reference
Pig-sty, but it was the room they all of them loved best in the house. From Wordnik.com. [Mrs. Day's Daughters] Reference
When a man is grown up, he can live in a sty and not be a pig; but turn. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 70, August, 1863] Reference
Beattie refers to a contemporary's "reptile Muse, swollen from the sty.". From Wordnik.com. [The Poet's Poet : essays on the character and mission of the poet as interpreted in English verse of the last one hundred and fifty years] Reference
A pig-sty has been erected in his rose-garden by a doctor in East Essex. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, January 31, 1917] Reference
A pig and sty constituted first prize at a recent whist drive at Bishop's. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-02-11] Reference
Every such thing was arranged to attract the animals into the sty if possible. From Wordnik.com. [Connor Magan's Luck and Other Stories] Reference
In the village I have just come from the squire has had a pig stolen out of his sty. From Wordnik.com. [Folk-lore and Legends: German] Reference
Then they went to the sty, which was built with its back against a large boulder stone. From Wordnik.com. [Olaf the Glorious A Story of the Viking Age] Reference
It was a clean place, for Peter did not let his pigs live in a dirty sty as some people do. From Wordnik.com. [Dick and His Cat and Other Tales] Reference
Although feverishly excited, he felt quite secure, because the sty was so substantially built. From Wordnik.com. [Connor Magan's Luck and Other Stories] Reference
I rushed to the sty, found the nest warm, and with prompt decision prepared for speedy pursuit. From Wordnik.com. [Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands] Reference
Would he be better reconciled to his fate after spending his nine months between field and sty?. From Wordnik.com. [The Fat of the Land The Story of an American Farm] Reference
I hate that word; it is only fit to be applied to pigs; they always look sty-lish, 'replied Gregory. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 3, No. 1 January 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
"No indeed, but she always lets me do the talking," answered Cora with a sty look at the blushing Bess. From Wordnik.com. [The Motor Girls on Cedar Lake Or the Hermit of Fern Island] Reference
When one of these glands is blocked by its own secretion, the inflammation which results is called a "sty.". From Wordnik.com. [A Practical Physiology] Reference
Sacks to be filled with garlic and black wine, liver and blood-puddings -- grunting hogs, let them keep their sty. From Wordnik.com. [Little Novels of Italy Madonna Of The Peach-Tree, Ippolita In The Hills, The Duchess Of Nona, Messer Cino And The Live Coal, The Judgment Of Borso] Reference
But mind, it's your neck she may break at the first wall, for I've niver taken her over anything much higher than a pig sty. '. From Wordnik.com. [The Red-Blooded Heroes of the Frontier] Reference
A pig, in a sty even more extemporary than the shanties, is grunting and poking his snout through the clefts of his habitation. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 108, October, 1866] Reference
On one side, in view from the front gate, was a dilapidated hen-house -- on the other, a more unsightly stable with a pig-sty attached. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 33, December, 1873] Reference
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