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  • Saxon smiled with appreciation, pointed out her foot, velvet-slippered with high Cuban heels, and slightly lifted the tight black skirt, exposing a trim ankle and delicate swell of calf, the white flesh gleaming through the thinnest and flimsiest of fifty-cent black silk stockings.

    CHAPTER II 2010

  • But the night I met him in John O'Brien's Dawson saloon, his head was wreathed in a nimbus of fifty-cent cigar smoke, and instead of my pouch he demanded my sack.

    A HYPERBOREAN BREW 2010

  • You sound like a fifty-cent detective novel gone really, really bad.

    Midnight, Manhattan, 1952 James Lloyd Davis 2011

  • I've also been working my way through a pile of very peculiar comics I picked up from the fifty-cent bins at New York Comic-Con and WonderCon, especially a handful of thrashed copies of Strange Adventures comics from the '50s and early' 60s; they make great bedtime reading if you like weird dreams as much as I do.

    What Are You Reading? | Robot 6 @ Comic Book Resources – Covering Comic Book News and Entertainment 2009

  • But the night I met him in John O'Brien's Dawson saloon, his head was wreathed in a nimbus of fifty-cent cigar smoke, and instead of my pouch he demanded my sack.

    A HYPERBOREAN BREW 2010

  • All I possessed were on me, and they were as follows: a pair of sea-boots that providentially leaked the water out as fast as it ran in, a pair of fifty-cent overalls, a forty-cent cotton shirt, and a sou'wester.

    Chapter 12 2010

  • I grabbed her hand and gave her the fifty-cent tour before we ended up in my bedroom, where we shared the small space atop my bed.

    Brooklyn Story Suzanne Corso 2011

  • I also took the fifty-cent coin that I had and dipped it into the flowing waters of the river.

    THE RICH RIVER 2010

  •          On a good day it's like suddenly being able to play that fifty-cent piano lesson half-learnt in the neighbor's house and finally getting it right.

    Magnets of Faith and Knowing 2010

  • There were bantams, about the size of a fifty-cent piece, and regular sized chicks more than twice that big.

    The Chicken Chronicles Sandra Knauf 2010

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