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  • "Mind old Jerry's ghost doesn't catch hold of you," cried her waggish brother Jack, as she crossed the threshold, tea-can in hand.

    Little Folks (November 1884) A Magazine for the Young Various

  • All heads were now turned down the street, and there, approaching with rather faltering steps, carrying a red cotton bundle and a tea-can, I beheld -- one of my sisters-in-law!

    The Right Stuff Some Episodes in the Career of a North Briton Ian Hay 1914

  • He immediately stepped over his newly-completed touch-line, and taking the spotted bundle and the tea-can from her hands, conducted her ceremoniously within the magic circle, saying, in a voice much more like his own than before --

    The Right Stuff Some Episodes in the Career of a North Briton Ian Hay 1914

  • In a final scene, Ralph Fiennes, as the older Michael, comes to New York to visit Ilana Mather, one of Hanna's surviving victims, bearing Hanna's savings in an old tea-can.

    Film | guardian.co.uk 2009

  • Ilana does not take the money, but incredibly, she does accept the battered old tea-can because it resembles one she lost in the camps - thus legitimising this appalling payment in a far deeper, more emotional sense.

    Film | guardian.co.uk 2009

  • Ilana does not take the money, but incredibly, she does accept the battered old tea-can because it resembles one she lost in the camps - thus legitimising this appalling payment in a far deeper, more emotional sense.

    Film | guardian.co.uk 2009

  • In a final scene, Ralph Fiennes, as the older Michael, comes to New York to visit Ilana Mather, one of Hanna's surviving victims, bearing Hanna's savings in an old tea-can.

    Film | guardian.co.uk 2009

  • Ilana does not take the money, but incredibly, she does accept the battered old tea-can because it resembles one she lost in the camps - thus legitimising this appalling payment in a far deeper, more emotional sense.

    Film | guardian.co.uk 2009

  • In a final scene, Ralph Fiennes, as the older Michael, comes to New York to visit Ilana Mather, one of Hanna's surviving victims, bearing Hanna's savings in an old tea-can.

    Film | guardian.co.uk 2009

  • Ilana does not take the money, but incredibly, she does accept the battered old tea-can because it resembles one she lost in the camps - thus legitimising this appalling payment in a far deeper, more emotional sense.

    Film | guardian.co.uk 2009

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