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• I calculate there may be about two hundred thousand couple whose wives are breeders; [...]
• [...]couple of tables; one of which bore some preparations for supper; while, on the other [...]
• A couple of billiard balls, all mud and dirt, two battered hats, a champagne bottle [...]
• ‘Oh, merely a couple of hundred a year, but the work is slight, and it need not interfere very much with one’s other occupations.’
• When we got on board again after a couple of hours on shore[...]
• Thinks I to myself, “Sol, you're run off your course again. This is a rich man's summer ‘cottage’ […].” So I started to back away again into the bushes. But I hadn't backed more'n a couple of yards when I see something so amazing that I couldn't help scooching down behind the bayberries and looking at it.
• And no use for anyone to tell Charles that this was because the Family was in mourning for Mr Granville Darracott […]: Charles might only have been second footman at Darracott Place for a couple of months when that disaster occurred, but no one could gammon him into thinking that my lord cared a spangle for his heir.
• It is in some sort with friends as it is with dogs in couples; they should be of the same size and humour.
• I'll go in couples with her.
• Now the conductor will couple the train cars.
• A parson who couples all our beggars.
• On their wedding night they coupled nine times.
• She had the brilliant inventor and craftsman Daedalus construct her an artificial cow, in which she hid and induced the bull to couple with her [...]
• I've coupled our system to theirs.