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  • French Frank was elated by the sale, which I had bound with a twenty-dollar goldpiece.

    Chapter 7 2010

  • Handing him the goldpiece, she went on, "He wants to talk with you."

    Rulers of the Darkness Turtledove, Harry 2002

  • Vanai couldn't remember the last time she'd seen a goldpiece, let along held one.

    Rulers of the Darkness Turtledove, Harry 2002

  • Instead of pouring wine, Vanai brought back the goldpiece and displayed it in the palm of her hand.

    Rulers of the Darkness Turtledove, Harry 2002

  • She didn't want to take the goldpiece with her when she went down to the market square to buy oil, but she didn't want to leave it back in the flat, either.

    Rulers of the Darkness Turtledove, Harry 2002

  • The thought of coming across a goldpiece made Jeremiah work harder than ever; only later did he think to wonder whether that was what Douglas had had in mind.

    A different flesh Turtledove, Harry 1988

  • Fred put the goldpiece in his pocket, while the thought flashed through his mind that the young girl was all gold herself.

    Halsey & Co. or, The Young Bankers and Speculators H. K. Shackleford

  • "And I'll remind him of it in time so't he can send you a Christmas goldpiece, if the sperit so moves him," wrote Aunt Alvirah, in her old-fashioned way.

    Ruth Fielding on Cliff Island Or, The Old Hunter's Treasure Box Alice B. Emerson

  • He held out to Eunice a newly minted Brazilian goldpiece.

    The Three Black Pennys A Novel Joseph Hergesheimer 1917

  • It called for fourteen, but by this time I was so discouraged I gladly accepted the five-dollar goldpiece he held out to tempt me.

    The Trail of '98 A Northland Romance 1916

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