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and now you hold out on
[Pg 267] “I worked hard,” said Mr. Medderbrook, “to sell you that Utterly Hopeless Gold-Mine stock and now you hold out on me.
— from Philo Gubb, Correspondence-School Detective by Ellis Parker Butler

at New York has one or
The Historical Society at New York has one or two of them.
— from North America — Volume 2 by Anthony Trollope

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