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McClellan wasn't the candle left under a bushell he now wants to paint his tenure as White House liar.
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My “liberty” to bash you over the head and take your bushell of corn is restricted because that deprives you of enjoyment of the corn.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Government Regulation and Copyright, Plus the Word “Always” 2009
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The contrast with the bushell of corn in your example is readily apparent.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Government Regulation and Copyright, Plus the Word “Always” 2009
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And if you want a real Maryland Chesapeake Bay crab house--if you want a good ones you'll have to come up to Bethesda Maryland where I live and I'll buy you a bushell of crabs and a pitcher of beer at the one around the corner from my house it's metro accessible and everything.
Eye of Ike Walter Jon Williams 2008
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It is now over $4.00 a bushell and I am having a record year.
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Report this comment to the moderators steven bushell Writes:
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And whereas we wrote vnto you in our former letter, that we would send you a hundred tunnes of salte, by reason it is so deare here we doe send you but nine tunnes and a halfe, for it cost here tenpence the bushell the first penie: namely in the Swallow 6 tunnes and a halfe, in the Philip and Marie one tunne and a halfe, and in the
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Sir Thomas Dale to paye us yearlye tribute, viz: a bushell of corne for every Boweman, for which, by agreement, we were to give to each man one peece of copper and one iron tomahawke, and to the eight chiefe men each
Colonial Records of Virginia Various
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In the hold they found one of the vessels of meale whole, and the other halfe spent, for wee had but two; wee found also two firkins of batter, some twentie seven pieces of porke, halfe a bushell of pease; but in the Masters cabbin we found two hundred of bisket cakes, a pecke of meale, of beere to the quantitie of a butt, one with another.
Henry Hudson Janvier, Thomas A 1909
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The wheat he selleth at four shillings the bushell; kills store of beeves, and sells them to victuall the ships when they come thither; hath abundance of kine, a brave dairy, swine great store, and poltery.
American Negro Slavery A Survey of the Supply, Employment and Control of Negro Labor as Determined by the Plantation Regime Ulrich Bonnell Phillips 1905
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