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  • I'm still on the road, selling my book by the barrow-load yesterday to admiring crowds in Carp, Ontario.

    Archive 2009-06-01 2009

  • An enterprising sweet-stuff dealer in the Chobham Road had sent up his son with a barrow-load of green apples and ginger beer.

    The War of The Worlds H. G. Wells 2009

  • Back in the early '60s when I was reading espionage fiction by the 'barrow-load, I read a lot of Victor Canning's novels in paperback editions.

    Archive 2009-06-07 Bill Crider 2009

  • Geoff is smoking pre-rolled Holborn roll-ups by the barrow-load.

    Archive 2008-08-01 tanita davis 2008

  • Geoff is smoking pre-rolled Holborn roll-ups by the barrow-load.

    The WritingYA Weblog: Poetry Friday: Not Clever tanita davis 2008

  • Some portion of any cash raised -- or maybe, as an alternative, a barrow-load of free shares -- would have to be used to compensate TPG.

    No WaMu Loss Yet for TPG 2008

  • Good heavens! it is not a man, but a barrow-load of stones that I have to drag on! —

    Scenes from a Courtesan's Life 2007

  • Lieutenant Vannicock told him to wait a few minutes, and the last barrow-load was got through.

    A Changed Man 2006

  • An enterprising sweet-stuff dealer in the Chobham Road had sent up his son with a barrow-load of green apples and ginger beer.

    The War of the Worlds Herbert George 2006

  • ‘Put in a barrow-load of the smoulder,’ said Uncle

    Lorna Doone Richard Doddridge 2004

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