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Our provisions consisted of three hundred-weight of beef and two hundred-weight of pork.
Chapter 19 2010
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There were four of these steps, and she went up them, a step at a time, slowly, unwaveringly, and with so dogged certitude that it never entered my mind that her strength could fail her and let that hundred-weight sack fall from the lean and withered frame that wellnigh doubled under it.
SAMUEL 2010
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He paid $50 a hundred-weight for their fodder, and more.
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In reality he was busy reducing a three-ton outfit to terms of cash at forty dollars per hundred-weight.
CHAPTER I 2010
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Our provisions consisted of three hundred-weight of beef and two hundred-weight of pork.
Chapter 19 2010
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And they have been weighed guilty by the hundred-weight and by the penny-pound.
Our American King David Lozell martin 2007
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And they have been weighed guilty by the hundred-weight and by the penny-pound.
Our American King David Lozell martin 2007
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Thus the same intelligence which to-day has made a piece of paper marked TEN SHILLINGS mean a hundred-weight of wheat may to-morrow make it mean one pound of wheat.
The Money Muddle 2007
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And they have been weighed guilty by the hundred-weight and by the penny-pound.
Our American King David Lozell martin 2007
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And they have been weighed guilty by the hundred-weight and by the penny-pound.
Our American King David Lozell martin 2007
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