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" The name is a sufficient passport to esteem with all the well-informed and right-feeling portion of our population; but it is most laughable to see the capers some of our drunken old Sterling madonnas will occasionally cut over their Currency adversaries... "
Two Years in New South Wales - Page 47
by Peter Miller Cunningham - 1827
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Captain Rock: Or, The Chieftain's Gazette for the Year 1827

Ireland - 1827 - 204 pages
...here by the name of Currency, in contradistinction to Sterling, or those born in the mother country. The name was originally given by a facetious paymaster...at me ? I am Sterling, and that I'll let you know !' " The currency people, however, are by far the least exceptionble ; they seem to possess nearly...
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The London Magazine, Volume 8

1827 - 624 pages
...lasses are a fine interesting race, and do honour to the country whence they originated. The uaшe is a sufficient passport to esteem with all the well-informed...population, its members are the theme of universal praise ; end, indeed, what more can be said in their favour, than that they are little tainted with the vices...
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The Eclectic review. vol. 1-New [8th], Volume 28

1827 - 604 pages
...regiment, at a period when the former bore a nominal equality, but real inferiority to the latter. ' It is most laughable to see the capers some of our...at me ? I am Sterling, and that I'll let you know !' Mr. Cunningham speaks in high terms of the present governor, General Darling;—we should have more...
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Two Years in New South Wales: Comprising Sketches of the Actual State of ...

Peter Miller Cunningham - Convicts - 1827 - 728 pages
...drunken old Sterling madonnas will occasionally cut - JV' Ti , ^ :. .- • . . ." ii •" i - ' t. ii '4* over their Currency adversaries in a quarrel. It is...crest at me? I am Sterling, and that I'll let you know 1" To all acquainted with the open manly simplicity of character displayed by this part of our population,...
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The Native-born: The First White Australians

John Neylon Molony - History - 2000 - 268 pages
...madonnas' used their origins to cut them down to size by giving forth a variety of invective such as 'You saucy baggage, how dare you set up your Currency crest at me? I am Sterling and that I'll let you know'.1 In their sense of reality and in the way they expressed their understanding of it, some visitors...
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The Eclectic Review, Volume 28

1827 - 646 pages
...regiment, at a period when the former bore a nominal equality, but real inferiority to the latter. ' It is most laughable to see the capers some of our...at me ? I am Sterling, and that I'll let you know !' Mr. Cunningham speaks in high terms of the present go vernor, General Darling; — we should have...
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