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Examples
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Keep the faith, and get matching funds from the left if the right tries to turn you with luchre.
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And, similarly, if a crowd of people want to pay money to watch it, they should also be permittedto part with their hard-earned luchre for a night of bloody violence.
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I both hope I ma hear so and hope it may come to pass for a small sacrafice [unrecovered] luchre cannot counterpoised as great change of health as would be produced in your family.
Letter from William S. Grandy to his uncle, Haywood S. Bell, July 31, 1842 1842
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One of the canards voiced by the left -- and it's a whopper -- is that conservatives are uncaring, that they're only after filthy luchre and that they could care less about the plight of the downtrodden masses.
Babalú Blog: an island on the net without a bearded dictator 2008
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At the very beginning of Steven Spielberg/George Lucas’ first installment of the aligned filthy luchre franchise, Jones is attempting to outstep his nemesis Belloq in the jungles of Peru for just that.
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