Verily I say unto thee, Thou shalt by no means come out thence, till thou hast paid the uttermost farthing.

It is certainly honest to do every thing the law requires; but should we throw every poor debtor into prison till he has paid the utmost farthing, hang every malefactor without mercy, exact the penalty of every bond, and the forfeiture of every indenture, this would be downright cruelty, and not honesty: and it is contrary to that general rule, To do to another, that which you would have done unto you.

The fractional farthing is as dear to his heart as the thousands which stand before it.

" "Nay," said Robin, "my head against a leaden farthing, he is what I say.

Can the means of instructing them be furnished by the mere farthings and pence of the church?

I finished putting on my garments, and then I replied: "Not a farthing, colonel; not a damned farthing!

If my daughter marries you, she shall have neither my countenance in society nor one solitary farthing of the fortune I had destined for her.

Irus' self, The staff-propt Beggar, his thin-gotten pelf Brings out from pouch, where squalid farthings rest.

His enormous income has been exhausted to the ultimate farthing, and at latest accounts he had quit the city, leaving behind him, it is shrewdly suspected, a large hotel bill, though no such admission can be extorted from his last landlord, who is evidently a sycophantic adulator of British "aristocracy.

Those who are poorer buy hot maize cobs and cabbage pies; those who feel hot already themselves are fain to go to the ice and lemonade stall, and spend odd farthings there.

But don't you see, sir, how all poor-laws, old or new either, suck the independent spirit out of a man; how they make the poor wretch reckless; how they tempt him to spend every extra farthing in amusement?' 'How then?' 'Why, he is always tempted to say to himself, "Whatever happens to me, the parish must keep me.