Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A coin kept in the pocket and not spent, generally a coin that is not current.
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Examples
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The famous long brass Gun ridiculously calld 'Queen Ann's pocket-piece,' was given to Elizabeth by the
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She was walking down Mount Street with Maria, and she let fall her purse, and nothing in it but a pocket-piece to save her gentility.
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It is a pocket-piece for sudden occasion -- a keepsake to dote over -- a charm to spell-bind opposition, and
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This prophecy of Noah is the _vade mecum_ of slaveholders, and they never venture abroad without it; it is a pocket-piece for sudden occasion, a keepsake to dote over, a charm to spell-bind opposition, and
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It is a pocket-piece for sudden occasion -- a keepsake to dote over -- a charm to spell-bind opposition, and
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This prophecy of Noah is the _vade mecum_ of slaveholders, and they never venture abroad without it; it is a pocket-piece for sudden occasion, a keepsake to dote over, a charm to spell-bind opposition, and
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This prophecy of Noah is the _vade mecum_ of slaveholders, and they never venture abroad without it; it is a pocket-piece for sudden occasion, a keepsake to dote over, a charm to spell-bind opposition, and
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This prophecy of Noah is the _vade mecum_ of slaveholders, and they never venture abroad without it; it is a pocket-piece for sudden occasion, a keepsake to dote over, a charm to spell-bind opposition, and
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So lend me that pocket-piece of yours, and we will permit chance to settle the entire matter.
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How many a faithful pocket-piece has been pulled out by its disappointed owner and actually set wrong to make it agree with one of these rubicund old sinners?
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