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"I think," replies Phil after pensively tracing out a cross-wrinkle
in his forehead with the brush-handle, "that mischeevious
consequences is always meant when money's asked for."
"Lookye, Phil," says the trooper, sitting on the table. "First and
last, I have paid, I may say,
half as much again as this principal
in interest and one thing and another."
Bleak House by Dickens, Charles - Chapter 34
http://www.literaturepost.com/chapter/2303.html
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where
again:
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again
4 a :
in addition : BESIDES <that's something else again> b :
by as
much more <his house is as big again as mine> <he has half again as
much land as I do>
M-W unabridged
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