Guineas

Examples

• I'll beat 'em, if it cost me a thousand guineas. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• A hundred and fifty guineas apiece. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• He laid two of Thomasin's guineas, and the reddleman his two pounds. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• Shall I leave you twenty guineas? Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• The price of an ox, reckoned at ten guineas, is about three score times the price of a lamb, reckoned at 3s. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• One thing is cheerful in it--the guineas are not lost. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• I wouldn't take ten thousand guineas for that bird. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Next day the mystery of the guineas was explained. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• Like other guineas, they were worth no more than ?46:14:6. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• There are five-and-twenty guineas in this bag. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• He struck his boot upon the ground, so that the guineas chinked within. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• If you do, and I were twenty years younger, I would give your father one thousand guineas for you. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• There might be medical doctors at the present hour, a picking up their guineas where a honest tradesman don't pick up his fardens--fardens! Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• Three, four, five, guineas, you would consider handsome, I dare say. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Two guineas a-piece, boys--don't let 'em gain on us--keep it up--keep it up. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• I--ha--I did so; and I found that it contained--ahem--two guineas. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• Being some time afterwards in such a predicament, and having promised to apply to him, I sent to him for a hundred guineas. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• This was to be submitted for the prize of fifty guineas and medal offered by the Royal Academy. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Valued at three hundred guineas. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• I will lay you fifty guineas that you do not repeat one line as Livius has written it, either in your song or your speech. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• On her giving me her purse to pay the driver, I found that all the guineas were gone, and only the loose silver remained. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• This incubator will hatch chicks, ducks, turkeys, or guineas, and we see no reason why it should not hatch the egg of the ostrich or anything else as well. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• You shall go to Cliff Bridge; and there are two guineas to buy a new frock. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• She went upstairs and took from a locked drawer a little box, out of which she poured a hoard of broad unworn guineas that had lain there many a year. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• I tell you plainly there's a reward out, of a hundred guineas, offered by Sir Leicester Dedlock, Baronet. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• The Steward's fee is limited to three Guineas. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Twenty-two guineas is rather heavy for a single costume. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• I'll bet you ten guineas to five, he cuts his throat,' said Wilkins Flasher, Esquire. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• One hundred guineas are yours, and as much Harriette's, if you can induce her to give me the meeting. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• Then perhaps you will explain this receipted bill for thirteen guineas, paid by Mr. Godfrey Staunton last month to Dr. Leslie Armstrong, of Cambridge. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.

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