Dollars gathered like autumn leaves wooden collection plates; dollars — John Updike, Beauty Lilies

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Dollars had once gathered like autumn leaves on the wooden collection plates; dollars were the flourishing sign of God's specifically American favor, made manifest in the uncountable millions of Carnegie and Mellon and Henry Ford and Catholina Lambert. But amid this fabled plenty the whiff of damnation had cleared of dollars and cents the parched ground around Clarence Wilmot.

John Updike, In the Beauty of the Lilies

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