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Meanings of old stocking in English

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Usage of old stocking in English
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Stocking Tops for Convenient Holders.-Forsoft, convenient holders use old stocking tops.
Mother's Remedies / Over One Thousand Tried and Tested Remedies ...
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Take an old stocking and cut it up for a pattern.
American Woman's Home: Or, Principles of Domestic Science; / Bei...
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I'll give'e as much more out of my old stocking upstairs.
The Cornet of Horse: A Tale of Marlborough's Wars
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And I have my old stocking, which contains nearly seventeen.
The Irrational Knot / Being the Second Novel of His Nonage
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At last the pouch grew so full that I mended an old stocking and commenced again.
Hans Brinker; Or, The Silver Skates
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So instead of crying she pulled out the old stocking, and went on with her darning.
Old-Fashioned Fairy Tales
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Consult your pillow, my dear fellow; and peep into your old stocking: and see whether you can afford it.
George Bowring - A Tale Of Cader Idris / From "Slain By The Doon...
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It was merely small miracles that he performed, and yet all as easy as an old stocking-quitefrom nature.
Pictures of Sweden
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My offers, first of an old stocking and afterwards of mines, mortgages and aerated breads, were rejected at once.
The Sunny Side
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Several old stocking tops cut into strips and dipped in paraffine oil make a fine dustless mop for hardwood floors.
Fowler's Household Helps / Over 300 Useful and Valuable Helps Ab...
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Haven't you got enough to eat, and a bed to lie on, and an old stocking full of money somewhere?
An Old Man's Love
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Yet there is not one of them but hath an old stocking full of gold pieces hid away in a snug corner.
The White Company
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The peasant woman went on her way meditating in what old stocking or under what mattress she should hide her two gold pieces.
Honey-Bee / 1911
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Twenty-five years of pinochle and poker and the fat of the land haven't added up any bumps in the old stocking under the mattress.
Buttered Side Down: Stories
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Oh, you might as well keep the money going as to hoard it up in an old stocking, so long as it is honestly yours.
A Little Girl in Old Salem
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Betty looked down at her own old boots, old stockings, old dress.
An Australian Lassie
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