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You know who it was, same as I do -- old C. Mayer Zurich, grand champion lightweight collar-and-elbow grafter and liar, cowman, grubstaker, general storekeeper, postmaster, and all-round crook, right here in C.bre -- right here where young Stanley's been gettin ''em dealt from the bottom for three years.
Copper Streak Trail Eugene Manlove Rhodes 1901
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We unloaded our grubstaker for eight thousand dollars apiece; and then we drifted down to this little town of Rosa, on the Salmon river, to rest up, and get some human grub, and have our whiskers harvested.
Heart of the West [Annotated] O. Henry 1886
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The first loss to a rascally grubstaker develops revenge and shrewdness which in the end results in the ownership of a valuable claim.
manybooks.net 2009
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