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` ` Well, Maggie, I'll bid you fair --- I'll bid you a shilling for the fluke and the cock-padle, or sixpence separately --- and if all your fish are as well paid, I think your man, as you call him, and your sons, will make a good voyage. ''
The Antiquary 1845
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` ` How much for the bannock-fluke and cock-padle? '' demanded the Antiquary.
The Antiquary 1845
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"How much for the bannock-fluke and cock-padle?" demanded the Antiquary.
The Antiquary — Volume 01 Walter Scott 1801
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"Well, Maggie, I'll bid you fair -- I'll bid you a shilling for the fluke and the cock-padle, or sixpence separately -- and if all your fish are as well paid, I think your man, as you call him, and your sons, will make a good voyage."
The Antiquary — Volume 01 Walter Scott 1801
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"Well, Maggie, I'll bid you fair -- I'll bid you a shilling for the fluke and the cock-padle, or sixpence separately -- and if all your fish are as well paid, I think your man, as you call him, and your sons, will make a good voyage."
The Antiquary — Complete Walter Scott 1801
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"How much for the bannock-fluke and cock-padle?" demanded the Antiquary.
The Antiquary — Complete Walter Scott 1801
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“How much for the bannock-fluke and cock-padle?” demanded the Antiquary.
The Antiquary 1584
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“caller haddocks and whitings — a bannock-fluke and a cock-padle.”
The Antiquary 1584
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“Well, Maggie, I’ll bid you fair — I’ll bid you a shilling for the fluke and the cock-padle, or sixpence separately — and if all your fish are as well paid, I think your man, as you call him, and your sons, will make a good voyage.”
The Antiquary 1584
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