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  • An’ it’s a downright roarin’ shame, as when he’s got the chance o’ making a bit o’ money wi’ sending goods out, —ten or twelve per zent clear, when freight an’ commission’s paid, —as he shouldn’t lay hold o’ the chance for want o’ money.

    II. Aunt Glegg Learns the Breadth of Bob’s Thumb. Book V—Wheat and Tares 1917

  • But if you’d a mind to lend a bit o’ money to Mr. Tom, he’d pay you six or seven per zent, an’ get a trifle for himself as well; an’ a good-natur’d lady like you ’ud like the feel o’ the money better if your nephey took part on it.

    II. Aunt Glegg Learns the Breadth of Bob’s Thumb. Book V—Wheat and Tares 1917

  • Well, she let out thirty pound to a young man in the drapering line, and he laid it out i’ Laceham goods, an’ a shupercargo o’ my acquinetance (not Salt) took ’em out, an’ she got her eight per zent fust go off; an’ now you can’t hold her but she must be sendin’ out carguies wi’ every ship, till she’s gettin’ as rich as a Jew.

    II. Aunt Glegg Learns the Breadth of Bob’s Thumb. Book V—Wheat and Tares 1917

  • "Bollyooly zent me to buy bebbermints," said his charge stolidly, without stopping.

    Happy Pollyooly The Rich Little Poor Girl Edgar Jepson 1900

  • "M'appen tha knaw'd the little chap as Christ's man zent to prizon thysen?"

    The Treasure of Heaven A Romance of Riches Marie Corelli 1889

  • It iss not hawnest mawney -- that hass been oarned py voark; it iss mawney that hass peen mate py sbeculation, and the obbression off lapor, and the necessity of the boor, py a man -- Here it is, efery tollar, efery zent.

    A Hazard of New Fortunes — Complete William Dean Howells 1878

  • It iss not hawnest mawney -- that hass been oarned py voark; it iss mawney that hass peen mate py sbeculation, and the obbression off lapor, and the necessity of the boor, py a man -- Here it is, efery tollar, efery zent.

    Complete March Family Trilogy William Dean Howells 1878

  • It iss not hawnest mawney -- that hass been oarned py voark; it iss mawney that hass peen mate py sbeculation, and the obbression off lapor, and the necessity of the boor, py a man -- Here it is, efery tollar, efery zent.

    A Hazard of New Fortunes — Volume 4 William Dean Howells 1878

  • "I want to be zet to work now, Master Nic, or to be zent away; for I feel as if I ought to be doing zomething, instead of idling about here."

    Nic Revel A White Slave's Adventures in Alligator Land George Manville Fenn 1870

  • Her can't get out of an avening now, her hath zent word to me, to tull 'ee.'

    Lorna Doone; a Romance of Exmoor 1862

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