Example Sentences

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They used to say that half-stocking was whole profit, and whole-stocking was half profit.

From The Belton Estate by Trollope, Anthony

I covered my half-stocking with them as quickly as I could, and ran after her, and presented it.

From Imaginary Conversations and Poems A Selection by Landor, Walter Savage