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7 total sentences available.
A milk boy, passing on his way to the dairy, happened to walk down the lane which leads from the mews at the back of the hotel. He noticed that a ladder, which usually lay there, was raised against one of the windows of the second floor, which was wide open. After passing, he looked back and saw a man descend the ladder. He came down so quietly and openly that the boy imagined him to be some carpenter or joiner at work in the hotel.
Source: tatoeba (6310129)
My cat mews a lot.
Source: tatoeba (7214029)
What penned them there, with all the plain to choose? No foot-print leading to that horrid mews, None out of it.
Source: wiktionary
It was healthy and magnificient because one room, above a mews, somewhere near the river, contained fifty excited, talkative, friendly people.
Source: wiktionary
Showing 4 of 7 available sentences.
Closest matches include alley, alleyway, arterial, arterial highway, arterial street.
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