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An enterprising son of an Edinburgh “Bailie” has been trying coffee-planting beyond the Perak, but he has got into difficulties with his laborers, and is “getting out of it.”
The Golden Chersonese and the way thither Isabella Lucy 2004
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But the high-price levels to which Arnold had forced the coffee market started a coffee-planting fever in the countries of production.
All About Coffee 1909
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Further coffee-planting was to be checked by enforcing the law which carried a tax sufficiently high to operate toward restriction.
All About Coffee 1909
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Once upon a time there was a coffee-planter in India who wished to clear some forest land for coffee-planting.
Children's Literature A Textbook of Sources for Teachers and Teacher-Training Classes Charles Madison Curry 1906
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Once upon a time there was a coffee-planter in India who wished to clear some forest land for coffee-planting.
The Kipling Reader Selections from the Books of Rudyard Kipling Rudyard Kipling 1900
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Once upon a time there was a coffee-planter in India who wished to clear some forest land for coffee-planting.
Life's Handicap Rudyard Kipling 1900
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You can't be very famous by coffee-planting, can you? '
The Giant's Robe F. Anstey 1895
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Those were the royal days of coffee-planting in Ceylon, before a single season and a rotten fungus drove a whole community through years of despair to one of the greatest commercial victories which pluck and ingenuity ever won.
The Last Galley Impressions and Tales Arthur Conan Doyle 1894
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An enterprising son of an Edinburgh "Bailie" has been trying coffee-planting beyond the Pêrak, but he has got into difficulties with his laborers, and is "getting out of it."
The Golden Chersonese and the Way Thither Isabella Lucy 1883
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Now the engineer's brother, although he would not own to it, knew English, so I told him how the beauty of the road had lured me on, and how I was interested in coffee-planting, and how much I admired the magnificence of this plantation, and all the enterprise and energy it represented.
Travels in West Africa Mary H. Kingsley 1881
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