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Yes | No | Report from el pelon wrote 2 years 41 weeks ago

An Echo of Virginia Tech 2007

Not a few metropolitan papers reap a handsome profit by puffing society buds whom their fond parents are eager to place on the matrimonial market, hoping that they will "make good matches"; in other words, that they will marry money -- its possessors being thrown in as pelon.

The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast, Volume 12 1919

My bill of supplies amounted to one hundred and twenty-six dollars, and when, without a word, I drew a draft for the amount, the proprietor of the outfitting store, as a pelon, made me a present of two fine silk handkerchiefs.

The Outlet Andy Adams 1897

One thing sure, there isn't a man in Dakota who has money enough to tempt me to part with my pelon.

The Outlet Andy Adams 1897

[Greek: pos d 'an epeit apoloito pelon, pos d' an ke genoito; ei ge genoit, ouk est ', oud ei pote mellei esesthai. tos, genesis men apesbestai kai apiotos olethros. oude diaireton estin, epei pan estin homoion oude ti pae keneon ....

The Three Brontes Sinclair, May 1912

[Greek: pos d 'an epeit apoloito pelon, pos d' an ke genoito; ei ge genoit, ouk est ', oud ei pote mellei esesthai.

The Three Brontës May Sinclair 1904

Calling me aside, he said: "Quirk, if you play your cards right, you'll get a certificate of inspection for nothing and a chromo as a pelon.

The Outlet Andy Adams 1897