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Examples
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A fruit-stand owner with an inexplicable prejudice against New Zealanders.
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I got the hell out and took this picture of a vacated ? fruit-stand.
Archive 2006-07-01 Mac 2006
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They were coming down C Street one morning when they saw some fine watermelons on a fruit-stand at the
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In the centre of the table there stood, as sentries to a fruit-stand which upheld a pyramid of oranges and American apples, two squat old-fashioned decanters of cut glass, one containing port and the other dark sherry.
Dubliners 2003
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The fruit-stand dealers were selling only about one-third to one-half the quantity of fruit handled in former seasons.
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The pushcart and wagon peddlers as a rule buy packed or loose fruit cheap and go direct to the homes of the residents, selling at prices considerably below the fruit-stand men.
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OFFICER -- "I ketched this here mut pinchin 'bananas off a fruit-stand."
More Toasts Marion Dix [Editor] Mosher
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In general, it may be said that the gross profits of fruit-stand vendors range from 100 to 250 per cent.
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= -- Large, fine clusters should be served on the stem, arranged on a fruit-stand alone, or in layers alternated with mulberries, raspberries, or other seasonable fruits.
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Bess merely chuckled, and a few minutes later insisted upon stopping the machine while she got out and bought some oranges from a tempting fruit-stand.
Nan Sherwood at Palm Beach Or Strange Adventures Among The Orange Groves Annie Roe Carr
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