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Examples
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And theres sister Glegg, and sister Pullet too, saving money unknown, for they put by all their own interest and butter-money too; their husbands buy em everything.
VI. The Aunts and Uncles Are Coming. Book I—Boy and Girl 1917
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a girl's wedding the summer before, and a pair of new gloves I had got out of my butter-money.
In Homespun 1891
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"You have your salary and half the butter-money, but I have no income.
A Missionary Twig Emma L. Burnett
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Pullet too, saving money unknown, for they put by all their own interest and butter-money too; their husbands buy 'em everything. "
The Mill on the Floss George Eliot 1849
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