Example Sentences

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From here follow the canal northwest through the heart of the new Birmingham, turning right at the big canal intersection, past innumerable old locks and tollhouses.

From New York Times • Jan. 26, 2012

During the last days of April,1205 the clerks at the tollhouses note the entrance of "a frightful number of poorly clad men of sinister aspect."

From The French Revolution - Volume 1 by Durand, John