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To each of these families, whom I would now call farmers, it was proposed to advance 200 pounds in ready money as a stock to set them to work; to furnish them with cattle, horses, cows, hogs,
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To each of these families, whom I would now call farmers, it was proposed to advance 200 pounds in ready money as a stock to set them to work; to furnish them with cattle, horses, cows, hogs,
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To each of these families, whom I would now call farmers, it was proposed to advance 200 pounds in ready money as a stock to set them to work; to furnish them with cattle, horses, cows, hogs,
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And the little crying chickens and the little grunting hogs,
The Interpreter 1922
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If each family adds only one pig, in a few months at the present price for hogs,
Booker T. Washington Builder of a Civilization Lyman Beecher Stowe 1915
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With the appearing of every gold-rimmed face the boy felt he had won another friend, a friend who would come and bend above him at night, keeping off the ugly visions which haunted his pillow -- visions of the gnawing monsters about the church-porch, evil-faced bats and dragons, giant worms and winged bristling hogs,
The Hermit and the Wild Woman Edith Wharton 1899
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And thought them so good for himself and his hogs,
The English Spy An Original Work Characteristic, Satirical, And Humorous. Comprising Scenes And Sketches In Every Rank Of Society, Being Portraits Drawn From The Life Robert Cruikshank 1828
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The forest of Lucania, whose acorns fattened large droves of wild hogs,
History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 3 Edward Gibbon 1765
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Had Colepepper's [26] whole wealth been hops and hogs,
The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 2 Alexander Pope 1716
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We told them our present want was provisions, which they had no need of, being just at the end of their voyage; and that, if they would send their boat on shore with ours, and procure us six-and-twenty head of black cattle, threescore hogs,
The Life, Adventures & Piracies of the Famous Captain Singleton Daniel Defoe 1696
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