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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
collier .
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Many a time have I thought of the business alluded to, which happened to take place in our fore-shop one bonny summer afternoon, when I was selling a coallier wife, from the Marquis of Lothian's upper hill, a yard of serge at our counter-side.
The Life of Mansie Wauch tailor in Dalkeith David Macbeth Moir 1824
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Many a time have I thought of the business alluded to, which happened to take place in our fore-shop one bonny summer afternoon, when I was selling a coallier wife, from the Marquis of Lothian's upper hill, a yard of serge at our counter-side.
The Life of Mansie Wauch Tailor in Dalkeith, written by himself David Macbeth Moir 1824
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