Thus they continued in such error, blindness, decrees, sophisms, superstitions; idle ceremonies and traditions were the sum of their new-coined holiness and religion, and by these knaveries and stratagems they were able to involve multitudes, to deceive the most sanctified souls, and, if it were possible, the very elect.

But from especial causes our age peculiarly doth abound in this practice; for, besides the common dispositions inclining thereto, there are conceits newly coined, and greedily entertained by many, which seem purposely levelled at the disparagement of piety, charity, and justice, substituting interest in the room of conscience, authorising and commending for good and wise, all ways serving to private advantage.

The characters and events, though some of them masterly in conception, are coined expressly for the purpose of bringing out great effects.

It had been explained to them how they might, all at once, make a year's gain in the lottery; and it had become their custom always, at the end of every month, to put aside one silver coin apiece, to buy a lottery ticket withone ticket each, not for the great, but for the twenty-five-cent, prizes.

[Footnote 1: For this apt and cleverly coined word I am indebted to Mr. Frank O'Malley of the New York "Sun," who has been one of the most ardent and discriminating collectors of Bromidioms.

"Better say a Gerrymander!" growled the editor; and the outlandish, name, thus duly coined, soon came into general currency.

He had travelled, thought, seen, and felt so much, and had brought such wealth home with him, fitly coined into aptly chosen words; and she had gathered treasures as priceless from the literature of her own and foreign lands.

For the last four years of my life that preceded my marriage, I literally coined money; and never until this moment, I think, did I reflect on the great means of good, to myself and others, that I so gladly agreed to give up for ever, for a maintenance by the unpaid labour of slavespeople toiling not only unpaid, but under the bitter conditions the bare contemplation of which was then wringing my heart.

This gold piece upon my watch-chain was perchance coined from the sands of the Pactolus, and once bore Chaldaean characters.

Money was rarely coined, except on great occasions, such as a coronation, the birth of an heir to the throne, the marriage of a prince, or the commemoration of a decisive victory.

It contains, for you, upwards of 200 coins, among which is one Chinese, and the rest ancient.

Either favored by his isolated position, or availing himself of the embarrassment these men gave to each other, the despised fisherman was seen a little on their left, coining up abreast, with a stroke and velocity that promised further success.

The eyes of one speaking must, involuntarily, be drawn to her because she was listening, if I may coin a phrase, vividly.

He can spin a yarn pretty well, and coin a new word for a make-shift, amusingly, but save me from the foil-glitter of his poetry."

Four hundred thousand florins were annually coined.