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HUNTER: "Consumer Reports" says after a year of sitting outside our bracks (ph), the tires with nitrogen lost on average only about 1.3 pounds less than tires filled with regular compressed air.
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CAFFERTY: I do sometimes, but let's not toss brick-bracks around.
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I hab _dem_, but wite folks wont sell books to de bracks, and I wont steal 'em.
Among the Pines or, South in Secession Time James R. Gilmore
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I doant want no one hurted, I doant want no one wronged; but jess tink ob it, massa, four million ob bracks, and nigh so many pore wites, wid de bressed gospil shinin 'down on 'em, an' dey not knowin 'on it.
Among the Pines or, South in Secession Time James R. Gilmore
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I doan't want no one hurted, I doan't want no one wronged; but jess tink ob it, massa, four million ob bracks, an 'nigh so many pore w'ites, wid de bressed Gospil shinin' down on 'em, an 'dey not knowin' on it.
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No. 2, August, 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Various
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It was a kind of Italian lottery which the police didn't mind because the prizes were not in money or anything of value, but just Old Masters and brick-bracks.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-01-21 Various
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I could kiss you every day -- just as regular as pig-bracks.
De Turkey and De Law A Comedy in Three Acts Zora Neale Hurston
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Other houses without fireplaces were fitted up as storehouses for cold provisions, such as black bread, barm bracks, white bread, &c.
The Hero of Esthonia and Other Studies in the Romantic Literature of That Country 1878
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Let all the bracks in the Linnen, or rents, be duly mended; and keep your certain days of washing, and other days for the making clean of such
The Gentlewoman's Companion: or,%0AA Guide to the Female Sex 1675
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At all levels of government, and even in the private sector, spin has replaced substance to such an extent that bracks former spin maestro has started working with the new tram
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A disease of sheep. --Dr. Jamieson's Scottish Dictionary and Supplement, 1841. Also braxy.
May 10, 2011