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Examples
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Go, sell your blood to the princes of the earth at so many oboles a day, and leave me to accomplish my mission!
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Judas had hastily flung the pieces of silver and the oboles into the faces of the high priest and of the judges, returning the price paid for Jesus.
The Crushed Flower and Other Stories Leonid Nikolayevich Andreyev 1895
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Go, sell your blood to the princes of the earth at so many oboles a day, and leave me to accomplish my mission!
Cinq Mars — Complete Alfred de Vigny 1830
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They have not an oboles 'worth of blood in their veins! "
The Crushed Flower and Other Stories Leonid Nikolayevich Andreyev 1895
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