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  • Next, he fished out a ten-dollar gold-piece and offered it to his rescuer.

    LIKE ARGUS OF THE ANCIENT TIMES 2010

  • Unwrapping it, he dropped into my hand a chip of pure soft gold, the size of a ten-dollar gold-piece.

    THE HUSSY 2010

  • If we can't make a twenty-dollar gold-piece a night -- say, son, we're goin 'to move into better quarters.

    CHAPTER XVIII 2010

  • The king of Yonder Kingdom laughed, but the princess shrank on her throne, and the king on seeing her thus took a gold-piece from out of his purse and tossed it carelessly to the passing throng.

    DARKWATER W.E.B. DU BOIS 2004

  • In the morning Monsieur Grandet, following his usual custom on the days that commemorated the birth and the fete of Eugenie, went to her bedside and solemnly presented her with his paternal gift, — which for the last thirteen years had consisted regularly of a curious gold-piece.

    Eug�nie Grandet 2007

  • “Fillip his nose with a gold-piece, Richie,” quoth the

    The Fortunes of Nigel 2004

  • "You've forgotten something," pointing to the gold-piece that lay where Emma Dean had placed it before

    Grace Harlowe's Overland Riders in the Great North Woods Jessie Graham [pseud.] Flower

  • The red-headed lumberjack returned slowly, picked up the gold-piece and opened his mouth to speak, but no words came.

    Grace Harlowe's Overland Riders in the Great North Woods Jessie Graham [pseud.] Flower

  • Hans was very proud to say that he was five years old that very day; and when the Prince heard this he took a gold-piece from his purse and gave it to Hans.

    The Book of Stories for the Story-teller Fanny E. Coe

  • The queen uttered an exclamation of surprise, and the king himself was unable to suppress his astonishment; for gold-piece after gold-piece rolled from the bag and fell ringing in a bright pile on the table.

    Napoleon and the Queen of Prussia F. [Translator] Jordan

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