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But I won't let it go for a pittance.† (source)
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— I daresay Burke paid her a pittance but there you are......Pretty, isn't it?† (source)
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A pittance for something so powerful.† (source)
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But now wands waved in the city's air, untethered and free, phones in the millions, and a number could be obtained in minutes, for a pittance.† (source)
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Now they were being offered for a pittance or even for free.† (source)
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Anatole earned a stipend from student teaching, an amount the other graduate students called a "pittance," though it was much more than he and I had ever earned together in any year.† (source)
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For a pittance, people could ride nearly anywhere they wanted on a modern, safe, garishly decorated electric railway system.† (source)
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In his thesis, he'd marshal a host of epidemiological data to show that AIDS had almost certainly come from North America to Haiti, and might well have been carried there by American and Canadian and Haitian American sex tourists, who could buy assignations for pittances in a Port-au-Prince slum called Carrefour.† (source)
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Capitan Victor Alicinio Pena was listed in the real estate transactions as having bought the old Gonzalez farm from the government for a pittance.† (source)
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As to corporations, parishes, vestry-boards, and similar gatherings of jolter-headed clods who assemble to exchange such speeches that, by heaven, they ought to be worked in quicksilver mines for the short remainder of their miserable existence, if it were only to prevent their detestable English from contaminating a language spoken in the presence of the sun—as to those fellows, who meanly take advantage of the ardour of gentlemen in the pursuit of knowledge to recompense the inestimable services of the best years of their lives, their long study, and their expensive education with pittances too small for the acceptance of clerks, I would have the necks of every one of them wrung and their† (source)
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The settlement was a pittance compared to what it would've been if they had filed a year later.† (source)
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For a pittance: your shoes.† (source)
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He used the NotePad programme (www.ibrium.se), one of those full-value products that two men at the Royal Technical College had created and distributed as shareware for a pittance on the Internet.† (source)
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Obviously, he was explaining, one could acquire lumber at a pittance.† (source)
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Should we work for the sweater fourteen hours a day for a pittance?† (source)
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Father is letting the lodges for a pittance.† (source)
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