half-dollar

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The constable pocketed with alacrity the half-dollar our hero tendered him, and said briskly.

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  • He won first shot, ran out, took my half-dollar, and all I got was the opportunity to chalk my cue. —  Mark Twain's Speeches
  • Bat how is the half-dollar or the dollar to be saved, I should like to know? —  Lizzy Glenn
  • The most of these debts were in the form of half-dollar borrowings. —  The Fortune Hunter
  • But as he balanced the half-dollar on his thumb-nail, he was all at once absolutely assured that it would fall heads. —  The Pit
  • She opened her handbag and gave each of the tramps a half-dollar. —  The Song of the Lark
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