Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An obsolete form of
quintal .
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Di suatu temapt yang damai, diiringi suara musik J-Rock yang kental dari sebuah CD Player, seorang wanita misterius seumuran budhe2 (bukan tante2) sedang berkebun terong.
mayoineko Diary Entry mayoineko 2007
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"It were worse than a drop in the price of fish; an 'now I feel as if they'd riz a dollar a kental."
Under the Great Bear Kirk Munroe 1890
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I will ask of you then a supply of a kental of good dumb fish,
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Other salted provisions pay that duty in all cases, and salted fish is made lately to pay the prohibitory one, of twenty livres the kental.
Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 3 Thomas Jefferson 1784
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_Great Britain_ receives our pot and pearl ashes free, while those of other nations pay a duty of two shillings three pence the kental.
Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 3 Thomas Jefferson 1784
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Our indigo pays five livres the kental, their own two and a half; but a difference of quality, still more than a difference of duty, prevents its seeking that market.
Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 3 Thomas Jefferson 1784
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They emancipated tobacco from its monopoly, but subjected it to duties of eighteen livres fifteen sous the kental, carried in their own vessels, and twenty-five livres, carried in ours; a difference more than equal to the freight of the article.
Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 3 Thomas Jefferson 1784
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Salted beef is received freely for re-exportation; but if for home consumption, it pays five livres the kental.
Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 3 Thomas Jefferson 1784
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A duty of five, sous the kental, or nearly four and a half centss paid on our tar, pitch, and turpentine.
Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 3 Thomas Jefferson 1784
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Our fish and salted provisions (except pork) are received in their islands, under a duty of three colonial livres the kental, and our vessels are as free as their own to carry our commodities thither, and to bring away rum and molasses.
Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 3 Thomas Jefferson 1784
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