confines
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The doctors, Bob and Janet learned quickly that it was good for Zondor to keep going to the Friendly Confines.
From Washington Times • Oct. 27, 2016
I think it's a sign of the times that the greeting, "Welcome to the Friendly Confines" is now displayed across a bank of metal detectors at the gates of Wrigley Field.
From New York Times • Oct. 23, 2016
And it didn’t work when baby goats on leashes, on multiple occasions have been seen circling the Friendly Confines to dispel the team’s perpetually bad juju.
From Washington Post • Oct. 7, 2016
But the thrill of the chase would be over since only balls pulled straight down the line or the rare monster shots to left-center would escape the Friendly Confines.
From Chicago Tribune • Aug. 22, 2013
How curs'd the man whom fate's unhappy doom Confines, unluckly, to his native home, How doubly curs'd by cross grain'd stars is he, Whom fate ties down, tho' struggling to be free!
From The Poems of Philip Freneau, Volume I (of III) by Freneau, Philip
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