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  • You even spent ur 'hardearned' money...eh ya pele!

    When LOVE takes a hike. princesa 2007

  • In the meantime you'll have  your many fairy dancers waltzing through the  many layers of time — some shadows wanting   nothing more than to be heard from  again after so much hardearned silence —  seeking  pure perfections of meaning by way of  ever ancient musics.

    Small Object With a Face Gone Awry (Revised) 2010

  • How much of 'Superman is a Dick' type tripe stole away your hardearned cash as a kid, just because you were a loyal customer?

    The Flip Test David Campbell 2007

  • We should prohibit further royalty relief and save our citizens hardearned tax dollars for more worthy uses.

    Firedoglake » Ron Wyden (D-OR) Filibuster on CSPAN-2 Now 2006

  • You do not just throw open your doors to your home and let anyone homeless have access to all of your hardearned means, do you?

    Think Progress » Buchanan Argues For Immigration Moratorium To Preserve White Dominance 2006

  • Our two inimitable drolls did a roaring trade with their broadsheets among lovers of the comedy element and nobody who has a corner in his heart for real Irish fun without vulgarity will grudge them their hardearned pennies.

    Ulysses 2003

  • America was not founded in order to keep you from holding on to your hardearned money.

    The O'Reilly Factor O'Reilly, Bill 2000

  • This report is not gathering dust in a warehouse, it is still our blueprint for building a government that gives the taxpayers real value for their hardearned dollars.

    Presidents And Vps Remarks At Reinventing Government Event ITY National Archives 1994

  • If I'd known what lay ahead I'd have seen him damned first — those words'll be on my tombstone, so help me — but I didn't, and it would have shot my hardearned Afghan laurels all to pieces if I'd shirked, so I bowed to his instruction to proceed to India with all speed and report to the C-in-C, rot him.

    Flashman and the Mountain of Light Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1990

  • Thyrsis had left before that, partly because he could not endure to see the mess that things were in, and partly because they told him he would have to make a speech that night, and he had to spend two of his hardearned dollars for the hire of a dress-suit.

    Love's Pilgrimage Upton Sinclair 1923

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