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Here is my fourpennyworth on working dog conditioning based on a lifetime of partly trained working spaniels , and 2 more recent labs, which were specialy selected for breeding, temperament and confirmation - and loads more time ,as I am semi retired , so the dog is with me 90% of the day- I now know this makes a hell of a difference to the relationship .. .
Working Like a Dog 2007
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I do not know, sir, whether behind that aspect of prosperity there lurks the probability of another fourpennyworth. '
Despair's Last Journey David Christie Murray
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There were also two small 'private' bars, only capable of holding two or three persons, where nothing less than fourpennyworth of spirits or glasses of ale at threepence were served.
The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists Robert Tressell 1890
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I'll e'en change it in town, and buy fourpennyworth of Dutch cheese, and you shall have the parings for nothing to send to your Mamma as a gift from foreign parts.
The Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous, Vol. 2 of 3 Who was a sailor, a soldier, a merchant, a spy, a slave among the moors... George Augustus Sala 1861
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In Roger’s mind alone did he remain enshrined as the most expensive fourpennyworth ever known.
On Forsyte 'Change 2004
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