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But some do run deep, even after a showy Christmas Eve stockingful of $2 billion in "restorations."

The Politics of Austerity 2009

My butcher has saved a stockingful of money, and marries his daughter to a young salesman; Mr. and

The Newcomes 2006

At the call to arms he had come, with long strides, down from his bare little cabin in the Blue Ridge, bringing with him a flintlock musket, a corncob pipe, and a stockingful of

The Battle Ground Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow 1909

Porthleah, and had laid by a stockingful of money.

Merry-Garden and Other Stories Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

For, outside of a stockingful of guineas, all her capital was sunk in Merry-Garden, and all

Merry-Garden and Other Stories Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

Before he left the house the poor man took him aside, and emptied the stockingful of silver money on the table, and bade the saint take what he wanted, "for," says he, "a penny or two is never amiss in the great world."

The Wonder Clock 1887

As for the poor man, he was well off in the world, for he had all that he could eat and drink, and a stockingful of money back of the stove besides.

The Wonder Clock 1887

Giving his own worn-out gun a monster charge of three 6-pound shots, and a stockingful of grape, he rammed them all well down.

Our Soldiers Gallant Deeds of the British Army during Victoria's Reign William Henry Giles Kingston 1847

Don't trouble yourself to look out for a wife here; they're all very good in their way, but Johanna Klack is super-excellent, and she probably has saved up a whole stockingful of guilders.

Voyages and Travels of Count Funnibos and Baron Stilkin William Henry Giles Kingston 1847

My butcher has saved a stockingful of money, and marries his daughter to a young salesman; Mr. and Mrs. Salesman prosper in life, and get an alderman's daughter for their son.

The Newcomes William Makepeace Thackeray 1837