See gelt in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"text": "The miser, a-seeking lost gelt, / The doughboy, awaiting the battle, / May possibly know how I felt / While the long years dragged by as the dealer / As slow as the slowest of dubs, / Stuck out the last helping of tickets / 'Till I lifted—the Bullet of Clubs!",
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"ref": "1591 (1685), Henry Wotton, in Reliquiae Wottonianae, 616",
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"ref": "c. 1698, B. E., A New Dictionary of the Terms Ancient and Modern of the Canting Crew:",
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"ref": "1816, Egbert Benson, in a memoir read before the New York Historical Society [in 1816], quoted in History of the School of the Collegiate Reformed Dutch Church (1883), page 22",
"text": "I saw him at the house of my parents; I in my earliest youth, he approaching to fourscore. He was on his way to collect the Dominie's gelt; for the Dutch always took care the stipend to the minister should be competent, that so he never might be straitened 'to desire a gift.'"
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"ref": "1852, Walter Scott, A Legend of Montrose And, The Black Dwarf:",
"text": "\"And yet,\" said Captain Dalgetty, \"my second and greatest difficulty remains behind; for, although I hold it a mean and sordid thing for a soldado to have nothing in his mouth but pay and gelt, like the base cullions, the German lanz-knechts, whom I mentioned before; […] yet, ex contrario, a soldier's pay being the counterpart of his engagement of service, it becomes a wise and considerate cavalier to consider what remuneration he is to receive for his service, […]",
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"ref": "1948, William Burroughs, letter, 5 Jun 1948",
"text": "Have bought some farm land in Rio Grande Valley which should bring in a sizeable bundle of gelts come cotton picking time."
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"ref": "1969, Robert L. Vann, The Competitor, volumes 2-3, page 135:",
"text": "The miser, a-seeking lost gelt, / The doughboy, awaiting the battle, / May possibly know how I felt / While the long years dragged by as the dealer / As slow as the slowest of dubs, / Stuck out the last helping of tickets / 'Till I lifted—the Bullet of Clubs!",
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