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But how that rich old uncle of hers could suffer her to come without a penny,
Camilla 2008
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Okay, from left to right, we've got Whoopi as FDR, Joy as Teddy Roosevelt, Sherri as Abraham Lincoln the penny,
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Than if heroes, like buns, could be bought for a penny,
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 73, November, 1863 Various
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They retain their physical type as distinctly as do the Parsees in India, and are equally ready to turn an honest penny,
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. July, 1878. Various
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Singet Sawnie! singet Sawnie, are ye huirdin the penny,
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One day, you know, a year ago, a man gave me a penny,
A Book for Kids 1907
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The gray-beards had matured their plan and were demanding twenty sticks for a penny,
A Son Of The Sun Jack London 1896
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He complains of one or two of our ragamuffins having put him in peril of his life by presenting their pieces at him; but as they limited his ransom to an English penny,
Waverley Walter Scott 1801
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He complains of one or two of our ragamuffins having put him in peril of his life, by presenting their pieces at him; but as they limited his ransom to an English penny,
Waverley: or, 'Tis sixty years since Walter Scott 1801
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Could you see his grim grace, for a pound to a penny,
The Poems of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Volume 2 Jonathan Swift 1706
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