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Examples
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Endbury's two-for-a-cent society, but, for the Lord's sake, why do they make such a howling and yelling just at the time when Lydia's got the tragically important question to decide as to whether that's what _she_ wants?
The Squirrel-Cage Dorothy Canfield Fisher 1918
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"It's incredibly good luck that our little two-for-a-cent college should have so fine a thing," he said knowingly.
Hillsboro People Dorothy Canfield Fisher 1918
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Just the little two-for-a-cent queerness of our happening to meet in Rome instead of in
The Brimming Cup Dorothy Canfield Fisher 1918
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"It's incredibly good luck that our little two-for-a-cent college should have so fine a thing," he said knowingly.
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"Do you mean to say this two-for-a-cent town has a boss?"
Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill Winston Churchill 1909
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"Do you mean to say this two-for-a-cent town has a boss?"
Mr. Crewe's Career — Volume 1 Winston Churchill 1909
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"Do you mean to say this two-for-a-cent town has a boss?"
Mr. Crewe's Career — Complete Winston Churchill 1909
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Since you've been livin 'here, Mr. Bangs, I've had a chance to talk of somethin' beside the little two-for-a-cent things that most of us Gould's Bluffs people have to talk about from December to
Galusha the Magnificent Joseph Crosby Lincoln 1907
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Anyway, there we was, marooned on that little two-for-a-cent island.
Cape Cod Stories Joseph Crosby Lincoln 1907
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Well, there was, one of those little, two-for-a-cent contraptions, just big enough to stick one end of the egg into.
Kent Knowles: Quahaug Joseph Crosby Lincoln 1907
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