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I earned 25 cents for each wagon-load of groceries I pulled home for the ladies.
Readers reminisce about Prince George's Country Club and District Grocery Stores John Kelly 2010
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I earned 25 cents for each wagon-load of groceries I pulled home for the ladies.
Readers reminisce about Prince George's Country Club and District Grocery Stores John Kelly 2010
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The thriftiness of this burgh is radically improved with shipping and wagon-load industries being the most suitable developed.
BSNYC Frizzy Fur Quiz! BikeSnobNYC 2010
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The plots were always the same: In order to extort from Nell the deed to her ranch, Snidely tied Nell to the railroad tracks in front of a train, or he tied her to a log and sent her down the conveyor into the sawmill, or he strapped her to a wagon-load of dynamite, or ... something.
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The one time I left my shotgun home this season was while out in my woods (on my ATV) bringing in a wagon-load of fire wood.
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George W. Bush trotted into W.shington in 2001 with a wagon-load of pledges, ranging from educational reform to the creation of a new bi-partisan spirit.
Smirker's List: Vanity Fair Fair, Vanity 2009
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They harbor a notion that some things can be made real just by wishing, and a wagon-load of happy talk.
Waldo Jaquith - Everybody loses the transportation debate. 2007
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George W. Bush trotted into W.shington in 2001 with a wagon-load of pledges, ranging from educational reform to the creation of a new bi-partisan spirit.
Sketchbook: Politics and Power Fair, Vanity 2009
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The wagon-load which headed the line had struck up a song, and were shouting at the top of their voices with a haggard joviality, a potpourri by Desaugiers, then famous, called The Vestal; the trees shivered mournfully; in the cross-lanes, countenances of bourgeois listened in an idiotic delight to these coarse strains droned by spectres.
Les Miserables 2008
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The French republican government was notorious for destroying relics of the past so it is not surprising that during the French revolution, it was hauled out to cover a wagon-load of ammunition being sent to the northern front where the republican French were being attacked by Royalists.
Archive 2008-02-17 de Brantigny........................ 2008
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