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As a cord-wainer Steam is a failure; but he works cheaply, and will continue to hammer on, and disseminate his commodity of brown paper throughout the temperate zone.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 098, February, 1876 Various
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"My daughter," replied the _cord-wainer_, "with sixty thousand pounds at your lordship's service."
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 546, May 12, 1832 Various
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