selling-plater

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"I wouldn't mind," she replied, half laughing and half sobbing -- "I wouldn't mind at all about the pedigree, and I know you're not an old selling-plater; but if you were, I am very sure that I would care for you."

Southern Lights and Shadows William Dean Howells 1878
I know I amount to nothing myself, "he continued, bitterly, his eyes resting gloomily on the floor;" I'm only a no-account old selling-plater, and I'll just go back to the stable, where I belong. "

Southern Lights and Shadows William Dean Howells 1878