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cost, by conceptwriter
another yet, by slumry
Pop Culture, by oroboros
The Octopus, by yarb
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"As soon as the railroad wants to talk business with me," observed Annixter, "about selling me their interest in Quien Sabe, I'm ready. The land has more than quadrupled in value. I'll bet I could sell it to-morrow for fifteen dollars an acre, and if I buy of the railroad for two and a half an acre, there's boodle in the game."
- Frank Norris, The Octopus, ch. 3
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"'You study the life and times of Jan-Willem Hendrykxx. I could bear to know how he made his boodle and why he left it to the Ol Njorowa Foundation.'"
- 'Windfall', Desmond Bagley.