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  • If he doesn't strike pay-dirt he'll have to buy a steamer-passage to get away from the Solomons.

    Chapter 19 2010

  • Every likely-looking "feeder" was prospected, but the elusive "pay-dirt" danced ever to the north.

    In a Far Country 2010

  • Every likely-looking "feeder" was prospected, but the elusive "pay-dirt" danced ever to the north.

    In a Far Country 2010

  • But it does provide a long-term incentive to weather the storms and get to pay-dirt.

    Executive Compensation, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

  • The width of the pay-dirt steadily decreased, and the man extended in his mind's eye the sides of the "V" to their meeting-place far up the hill.

    All Gold Canon 2010

  • The width of the pay-dirt steadily decreased, and the man extended in his mind's eye the sides of the "V" to their meeting-place far up the hill.

    All Gold Cañon 2010

  • No ore where you should be striking pay-dirt by the hopper-load, and me finding creatures larger than anything mentioned in text-tapes from any planet in all the systems we've explored in the last four hundred galactic standard years.

    Cattle Town 2010

  • I knew I'd hit pay-dirt when I saw his jaw tighten; he shook his head sternly.

    THE NUMBERS 2010

  • "I feel a lot better now, knowing there was a good reason we couldn't find any pay-dirt at all!"

    Cattle Town 2010

  • Sometimes they struck pay-dirt, however, including the “Rathergate” controversy over George W. Bush's alleged military service, which figured in the blog's 2004 Time award.

    Putting the Nut in Wingnut - Swampland - TIME.com 2008

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