fifty-fifty

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I want seventy-five—fifty, fifty, fifty, fif—fif-tee, tee, t-e-e—what, no one here willing to pay more than fifty dollars for this bee-u—utiful bit of antique mahogany?

From Polly in New York by Roy, Lillian Elizabeth

Add fifteen for tips and all that: a hundred and fifty; fifty to you, two-hundred.

From Joan Thursday by Vance, Louis Joseph

Keep the ball rolling, gentlemen, keep it rolling!—fifty!—thanks, noble Roman!—going at fifty, fifty, fifty!—seventy!—ninety!—splendid!—a hundred!—pile it up, pile it up!—hundred and twenty—forty!—just in time!—hundred and fifty!—Two hundred!—superb! 

From The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg by Twain, Mark

Three three six, six, fifty, six fifty, fifty, seven.

From Geography and Plays by Stein, Gertrude

Then making the pesos sound in his pocket, he passed the brothers, looking the other way and crying: “I pay fifty; fifty against twenty for the lásak!”

From An Eagle Flight A Filipino Novel Adapted from Noli Me Tangere by Rizal, José