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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

  • “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

  • “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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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."

    Extra, Extra! Lunar Man-Bats 2008

  • Come, said she, give me six-penny worth of Portugal snuff.

    Clarissa Harlowe 2006

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