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Partridge discovered this by intuition, and took the occasion to give some oblique hints concerning the bankbill; and, when these were rejected with disdain, he collected courage enough once more to mention a return to Mr. Allworthy.
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"Something unusual, eh?" said the operator, as he took the bankbill the youth handed out to him for the message and gave back the change.
The Rover Boys in New York Or, Saving their father's honor Edward Stratemeyer 1896
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As one genuine bankbill is worth more than a thousand counterfeits, so is one man, with right on his side, worth more than a thousand in the wrong.
My Bondage and My Freedom Frederick Douglass 1856
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As one genuine bankbill is worth more than a thousand counterfeits, so is one man, with right on his side, worth more than a thousand in the wrong.
My Bondage and My Freedom. By Frederick Douglass. With and Introduction. By James M`Cune Smith. 1855
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As one genuine bankbill is worth more than a thousand counterfeits, so is one man, with right on his side, worth more than a thousand in the wrong.
My Bondage and My Freedom. Part I.--Life as a Slave. Part II.--Life as a Freeman 1850
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(compare our '_square_ meal'), _heft_ for _weight_, and 'muchness' in the 'Mirror for Magistrates,' _bankbill_ in Swift and Fielding, and _as_ for _that_ I might say _passim_.
The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell James Russell Lowell 1855
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