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"Murphies" fetched four pence halfpenny _each_, while an adult member of the _genus_ at ninepence was worth two of the little ones.
The Siege of Kimberley T. Phelan
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We lived in the rue Tilsitt, in red plush and Teddy43 came for tea and we went to the markets with the Murphies.
A Life in Letters F. SCOTT FITZGERALD 1994
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We lived in the rue Tilsitt, in red plush and Teddy43 came for tea and we went to the markets with the Murphies.
A Life in Letters F. SCOTT FITZGERALD 1994
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Eyes, Red Eyes, and Murphies; in Lancashire Potatoes are called
Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure William Thomas Fernie
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"What with -- the Murphies?" asked the astonished Thad; for he had known Hugh expected to go out to the farm after a sack of potatoes.
The Chums of Scranton High at Ice Hockey Donald Ferguson
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I finds myself face to face with a hunk of corned beef as big as my two fists, boiled Murphies, cabbage and canned corn on the side, bread sliced an inch thick, and spring freshet coffee in a cup you couldn't break with an ax.
Odd Numbers Being Further Chronicles of Shorty McCabe Sewell Ford 1907
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