My workplace in the late 1980s and early 1990s was an old brick building with wooden beams in the quaint Vancouver cobblestoned district of Gastown, walking distance to Chinatown. It was a software firm.
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My workplace in the late 1980s and early 1990s was an old brick building with wooden beams in the quaint Vancouver cobblestoned district of Gastown, walking distance to Chinatown. It was a software firm.
Source: tatoeba (10708374)
A marble-paved esplanade led from the cobblestoned street up to the palace, and on its west side facing the Great Sea an immense terrace of colored, polished stones went out from the peristylium.
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Wandering away from the entrance to the restaurant, Sam stood by the fountain in the old cobblestoned square, looking at the church of Santa Maria...
Source: wiktionary
A handsome thatched inn, the Royal Oak, stands opposite a cobblestoned packhorse bridge over the River Winn ^([sic]) [Winn Brook], and there are seven more bridges and a ford in the village.
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