How To Use Pelf In A Sentence
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Other households had found her too talkative and too opinionated, forever giving pelf mysterious airs.
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Does anyone have any doubt how effective these powerful people have been in controlling all levers of powers, pelf and privilege?
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PelFreez estimates that rabbit sales have climbed a steady 10 to 20 percent over the past few years.
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They may talk as they please about what they call pelf,
The Profits of Religion, Fifth Edition
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If one bends over backwards to avoid such epithets as spend -, slip - or slidethrift, spillgood, or scattergood, one incurs hostile mutters of sparethrift or sparegood, scrapepelf or scrape-good, pinchfist or skinflint (also flay - or fleaflint), pinchgut
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With the chance to help the Mets 47-47 win their first post-All-Star break series—against the team with the best record in Major League Baseball, no less—Pelfrey couldn't outduel an opponent, Kyle Kendrick, who isn't even a regular member of the Phillies' vaunted rotation.
Pelfrey Serves Up Meatballs
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These are wenches and they are always seeking only pelf.
So No More He'll Go A-Roving
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“The wretch, concentered all in self,” wrote Sir Walter Scott in 1805, might get “power and pelf” but would wind up “unwept, unhonored and unsung.”
No Uncertain Terms
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Assuming they elect to retain shortstop Jose Reyes (who has an $11 million club option for 2011) and offer arbitration to outfielder Angel Pagan and pitchers R.A. Dickey and Mike Pelfrey, the Mets already will have more than $120 million committed to their payroll.
It's All Over But The Reckoning
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Surely the good folk of Chapelfields would sell inheritances for a cheap, efficient service, where trains come by every three minutes.
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Mets fans experiencing schadenfreude at Nova should note that the list of hittable pitchers also includes Mike Pelfrey, who throws about as hard as Nova's 91.7 mph average fastball.
Yankees' Nova Is the Most Hittable Pitcher in Baseball
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With odds so heavily arrayed against the under-privileged and the ordinary, there are still voices somehow making themselves heard across the walls of silence that vested interest has been trying to erect with its power and pelf.
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Overweight and obesity are chronic problems affecting everyone without discrimination of gender or pelf.
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He kind of righted the ship for us when we were going through a struggle and needed a big start," Manuel said of Pelfrey's season.
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The man was evidently consumed by ambition, highly interested in pelf and preferment, and a natural Tory who defended the slave trade and imperialism, which Adam Smith so much deplored.
Triumph at Trafalgar
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Immortal gods I pray no pelf I speak for no-one but myself and so forth.
Quick crossword No 12,697
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In Chapelfields last night, a vehicle was damaged as youths held a wire or rope in front of it, and in Danebury Drive, Acomb, a bus was bricked.
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ÂIt is their boodle, pelf and spoils that they are trying to preserve.
Henry J. Stern: Beware the Gerrymander
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Politics is now merely a game of power, pelf and perks.
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Why, the deals that the White house offered for our votes on the Healthcare Reform Bill are laughable next to the bribes, uh, we mean pelf, oh no, we mean incentives that will be coming from the corporate world.
Think Progress » After hottest decade in history, senators attempt to outlaw science of global warming.
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No doubt the allure of office had something to do with it: the old corruption of rotten and pocket boroughs yielded to a new corruption of pelf and place.
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The problem is that Appelfeld is not an ironist.
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Pelfrey CM, Moldovan IR, Cotleur AC, Zamor N, Rudick RA (2005) Effects of sex hormones on costimulatory molecule expression in multiple sclerosis.
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It is their boodle, pelf and spoils that they are trying to preserve.
Henry J. Stern: Beware the Gerrymander
