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He knew it was sin, and deliberately he sinned when he went on a fifteen-cent candy debauch.
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He knew it was sin, and deliberately he sinned when he went on a fifteen-cent candy debauch.
THE APOSTATE 2010
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NOTE: Columbian Magazine (not to be confused with the 18th-century magazine, or that of the 1840s, bearing the same name) was a short-lived fifteen-cent New York monthly.
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Leave it to college kids to sniff out “fifteen-cent beer night.”
Misty Misty May-Treanor With Jill Lieber Steeg 2010
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Leave it to college kids to sniff out “fifteen-cent beer night.”
Misty Misty May-Treanor With Jill Lieber Steeg 2010
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Also, the dealer at the very end is the guy that got the rest of the "V" comics out of the fifteen-cent bin before Julie could scoop them up, and she was a little peeved at him.
Last Weekend at Emerald City | Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources 2008
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When all but twenty dollars of his money was gone, he moved to a fifteen-cent lodging-house in the Bowery, where there was a bare lounging-room filled with tables and benches as well as some chairs.
Sister Carrie 2004
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Perry drank two more fifteen-cent draught beers and spoke little to the men around him, because none of them knew anything except that they might eventually get to see another shooting.
To The Bright and Shining Sun James Lee Burke 1989
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He lit a fifteen-cent cigar and puffed away as if he were used to it.
Golden Stories A Selection of the Best Fiction by the Foremost Writers Various
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There were three pieces of paper money used in those days: the five-cent, ten-cent, and fifteen-cent pieces.
Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 2 Work Projects Administration
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