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1 There is a manufactory of electric clocks, also of recent date.
2 Every farmhouse was a manufactory , not of one kind of goods, but of many.
3 It had formerly been a manufactory , but for many years had been deserted and falling to ruins.
4 There is a manufactory that can make tripe so natural that no person on earth can detect the deception.
5 The opinion of Mr. Frere, therefore, that there may have been a manufactory of weapons on the spot, appears probable.
6 There is a manufactory of knit-stocking by the common women about Cork, for eight or ten miles around; the yarn from 12d.
7 At Zlatoust there is a manufactory of firearms and sword blades that is said to be unsurpassed in the excellence of its products.
8 The articles produced here are thread, cloths, linen, and glass; and there is a manufactory of porcelain at a village about a mile distant.
9 The house-agent pointed across the street to a dreary mansion of many windows, which might have been a manufactory , but which was an hotel.
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