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  • Ca. voters wake up Meg is like a steamengine coming down the tracks and you are on the track so jump off with all the big bucks she raked off ebay she is loaded baby.

    New name and big bucks in California 2010

  • Not since that time in the tower, months ago, when he had repaired the big steamengine and actually made it run, had he enjoyed so real a sense of mastery over the world as now; had he sensed so definite a connection with the mechanical powers of the world that was, the world that still should be.

    Darkness and Dawn George Allan England 1906

  • He no longer opposed Dick Avenel when that gentleman represented how detrimental it would be to his business at Screwstown if he devoted to his country the time and the acumen required by his mill and its steamengine; and how desirable it would be, on all accounts, that Leonard Fairfield should become the parliamentary representative of the Avenels.

    My Novel — Volume 12 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

  • He no longer opposed Dick Avenel when that gentleman represented how detrimental it would be to his business at Screwstown if he devoted to his country the time and the acumen required by his mill and its steamengine; and how desirable it would be, on all accounts, that Leonard Fairfield should become the parliamentary representative of the Avenels.

    My Novel — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

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