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Fanny the value of one penny-piece; we knew that we disliked her; we knew that we ha ...
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‘Not a penny-piece in the world that I can call my own.’
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The table then spoke of Mount Melleray, how bracing the air was down there, how hospitable the monks were and how they never asked for a penny-piece from their guests.
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No shred of valid evidence has been or could be brought forward by anyone to establish that a single penny-piece has been spent outside the terms of reference of the Fund which are, without question, humanitarian.
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There was, however, no sign nor mention of money or jewellery: not a penny-piece or a glass bead was given away.
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There was, however, no sign nor mention of money or jewellery: not a penny-piece or a glass bead was given away.
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"Well, if the half of it's true," says the lady, "the first news should come to me is that I'm a widow; for 'tis impossible it should happen as you say with a husband that hasn't one penny-piece to rattle on a tombstone."
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Left alone in the world, with scarce a penny-piece to call their own, the daughters resolved on a daring departure from the conventional paths of poverty.
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She hoards every penny-piece, and then gloats over her money-box, by the firelight, when the rest of the camp is asleep.
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Sometimes I have noticed rosettes, about the size of a penny-piece, all one colour -- creamy-white -- which, when cut from the plant, very much resembled a carnation.
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