19 Metaphors for feeing

The apprentice fee was only ten pounds; he slept in the room with the footboy, and was confined to the office from eight o'clock in the morning, with the usual interval for dinner, till the same hour at night.

For the drawing-classes this fee is five shillings.

When an Indian is sick and wants "the Doctor" as we say, or a medicine man, as they say,they call them also priests, doctors and jugglers,a messenger is sent for one, with a pipe filled in one hand, and payment in the other; which fee may be a gun, blanket, kettle or anything in the way of present.

" When he heard my fee was a hundred guineas to appear at the police court, I heard no more of truthful James.

"You know, of course," he finally volunteered, "that the estate when it was finally wound up had mostly been eaten up by court expenses and lawyers' feesthe robbers!" I could see he was in earnest in this last remark: but of course lawyers' fees and court expenses were all a mystery to me.

Sometimes the fee may be several horses, and sometimes a gun, saddle, or some article of wearing-apparel.

My sister will never call you in, whatever happens; she is a miser, and your fee is three roubles a visit."

"I think Mr. Tabb used to talk a lot to Mr. John Fee; Mr. Fee was a man who lived in Kentucky, but Lord!

"My fee is half a guinea a visit," he said, softly; "five shillings if you come to me.

The entrance fee for regular members shall be twenty-five dollars.

" For these offices he mentions that his fee is fifty guineas, but he will take ten pounds, adding: "I can cure the itchy pitchy, Palsy, and the gout; Pains within or pains without; A broken leg or a broken arm, Or a broken limb of any sort.

*** The admission fee to a concert recently held for the benefit of the Southwark Military Hospital was one egg.

The fees paid to Brahmanas assisting at sacrifices and religious rites, such as offering oblations to the dead, are Dakshinas, as also gifts to Brahmanas on other occasions particularly when they are fed, it being to this day the custom never to feed a Brahmana without paying him a pecuniary fee.

" No fee was Meetuck's best attempt at the words no fear.

The fact was that fees, and even certain perquisites, were no dishonour to receive, as they nearly always formed a recognized part, and often the whole, of a perfectly legal salary.

On the 11th of January, 1827, the Committee for the District of Columbia, (themselves slaveholders) introduced a bill providing that the jail fees should hereafter be a county charge.

The admission fee is 25 cents, or one shilling; but from us, being strangers, they will accept of nothing!

"I think Mr. Tabb used to talk a lot to Mr. John Fee; Mr. Fee was a man who lived in Kentucky, but Lord!

Abdullah is very clever and his fee is a mere trifle.

19 Metaphors for  feeing