penny-a-lining

• At penny-a-lining make your whack, —  The Book of Humorous Verse
• I'd include 'penny-a-lining' -- don't be offended because you get twopence, perhaps. —  Cornelius O'Dowd Upon Men And Women And Other Things In General
• Dr. Johnson has been down the street many a time with ragged shoes, and a bundle of penny-a-lining for the 'Gent's —  The History of Pendennis, Volume 2 His Fortunes and Misfortunes, His Friends and His Greatest Enemy
• Then some patriotic penny-a-lining, interlarded with diatribes on —  Lost Illusions
• Lucien read on through a pile of penny-a-lining, put together on the same system as his attack upon Nathan. —  Lost Illusions

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