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This percentage increase accounts for the 150 "pinhook" horses at the event these are the ones that were purchased less than a year earlier by owners that were aiming to develop them over a short period of time and then resell them at auction.
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Here's a look at the average original-purchase price and average sales prices of "pinhook" horses during the past four years at the Fasig-Tipton Saratoga thoroughbred yearling sale.
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"I'll pay Bill Wilder the skins when I git ready, and all the pinhook lawyers in Washington County won't budge me a mite."
The Crossing Winston Churchill 1909
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"I'll pay Bill Wilder the skins when I git ready, and all the pinhook lawyers in Washington County won't budge me a mite."
Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill Winston Churchill 1909
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"I'll pay Bill Wilder the skins when I git ready, and all the pinhook lawyers in Washington County won't budge me a mite."
The Crossing 1904
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He related the story of the goldfish and the pinhook.
Truxton King A Story of Graustark George Barr McCutcheon 1897
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The mill-pond, too, had its charms; and with my pinhook, and thread line, I could get _nibbles_, if I could catch no fish.
My Bondage and My Freedom Frederick Douglass 1856
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The mill-pond, too, had its charms; and with my pinhook, and thread line, I could get nibbles, if I could catch no fish.
My Bondage and My Freedom. By Frederick Douglass. With and Introduction. By James M`Cune Smith. 1855
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But, as I have been a fisher all my life, from my pinhook days to the present time; as I have run the list pretty well up, from brook minnows to 100 pound albacores, I may be pardoned for a few remarks on the rod and the use thereof.
Woodcraft George Washington Sears 1855
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The mill-pond, too, had its charms; and with my pinhook, and thread line, I could get nibbles, if I could catch no fish.
My Bondage and My Freedom. Part I.--Life as a Slave. Part II.--Life as a Freeman 1850
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