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  • I have 7million pounds sterlings for investment purpose.

    EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - Spam Message of the Day 2007

  • I used to be a bit depressed by spending my birthdays in the UK, where no gift are ever delivered on time or delivered at all, so I decided to splash a few lovely sterlings into a return flight home to celebrate with my family.

    birthday blues 2004

  • London, with a Bill of Lading and Invoice of about 150 sterlings worth of Glass and Hinges and Nails, and Locks &c. for a House.

    John Adams diary 5, 26 May - 25 November 1760 1961

  • In the midst of the court, upon a rug, stood thirty bushels of bright sterlings; [143] for since the time of Merlin until that day sterlings had currency throughout

    Four Arthurian Romances de Troyes Chr��tien 1914

  • In England sterlings and nobles were stuck, both of them often counterfeited.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip 1840-1916 1913

  • Then what does our King do but give them leave to pass through his camp; and not only so, but he orders his soldiers to feed them well, and start them refreshed on their way; and before they went forth, to each of them was given, by the royal order, two sterlings of silver, so that they went forth joyously, blessing the liberality and kindness of the English and England's King.

    In the Days of Chivalry Evelyn Everett-Green 1894

  • It boasts a mill, an ancient church, a castle, and a bridge of many sterlings.

    Across the Plains: With Other Memories and Essays 1892

  • They perched upon sterlings and buttresses and along the slope of the embankment, gently occupied.

    An Inland Voyage 1878

  • They perched upon sterlings and buttresses and along the slope of the embankment, gently occupied.

    The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 1 (of 25) Robert Louis Stevenson 1872

  • They perched upon sterlings and buttresses and along the slope of the embankment, gently occupied.

    An Inland Voyage Robert Louis Stevenson 1872

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