doubloons

• Daily Telegraph: Palestinian children 'go hungry in poverty'; 6 August 2002. this is the year that the food stamps of adolescent mothers are auctioned like gold doubloons, and no coin is given to buy machetes for the next bouquet of severed heads —  Palestine Blogs aggregator
• Parade floats are filled with people who toss colored beads, doubloons, and other treats. —  xml's Blinklist.com
• "I admired Cahill's sly juxtaposition of the California of Charlie's imagination, one of yellowing maps and shimmering doubloons, and the California of Charlie's life, which is littered with chain stores and restaurants and where the most exotic wildlife is found on a carefully landscaped golf course," writes —  GreenCine Daily
• In fact, the paternal solicitude of his majesty for my doubloons was so urgent that I was on the point of yielding myself a patient sacrifice, when Joseph came to my relief with the offer of his hand as a substitute The Gordian knot was cut. —  Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver
• "I thank you, senhor," replied I; "what with the doubloons of Don Florez and your quarter-doubloons, I shall soon be a rich man How say you," replied he, "Don Florez give you doubloons--then he spoils the market; but I must not allow him to pay you better than I do, or I shall not be served so faithfully.--Here's a doubloon and a half, which, with what you have already received, will make the accounts square." —  The Pacha of Many Tales

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