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Examples
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One in particular was like a bully, a big angry-looking thing as large as the head of a six-penny nail.
A Book of Miracles Jack Canfield 2010
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“During the War they find you useful and after a Peace they will wish to get rid of you,” Morris wrote, “and then they will see you starve rather than pay a six-penny tax.”
Robert Morris Charles Rappleye 2010
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“During the War they find you useful and after a Peace they will wish to get rid of you,” Morris wrote, “and then they will see you starve rather than pay a six-penny tax.”
Robert Morris Charles Rappleye 2010
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One in particular was like a bully, a big angry-looking thing as large as the head of a six-penny nail.
A Book of Miracles Jack Canfield 2010
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One in particular was like a bully, a big angry-looking thing as large as the head of a six-penny nail.
A Book of Miracles Jack Canfield 2010
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One in particular was like a bully, a big angry-looking thing as large as the head of a six-penny nail.
A Book of Miracles Jack Canfield 2010
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One in particular was like a bully, a big angry-looking thing as large as the head of a six-penny nail.
A Book of Miracles Jack Canfield 2010
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Our great difficulty was that in our first years our income was mostly from six-penny and one shilling seats in the gallery and pit.
Later Articles and Reviews W.B. Yeats 2000
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Circulation of the Sun soared to 19,360, a figure that Mr. Goodman writes "sent shock waves through the city's newspaper district, where none of the Sun's six-penny competitors had a circulation of more than a few thousand."
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Come, said she, give me six-penny worth of Portugal snuff.
Clarissa Harlowe 2006
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