There are light low tables and chairs, a family of guinea pigs in a large cage, and there is a cupboard which the children can reach.

The rooks in the elms cawed sermons at morning and evening; the peacocks walked demurely on the terraces; the guinea fowls looked more Quaker-like than those birds usually do.

This latter might have been meant to represent a goose, an ostrich or a guinea hen; but Myrtle was delighted with it and thanked the generous squaw, who responded merely with a grunt, not understanding English.

The rank is but the guinea stamp; The man's the gowd for a' that.

But our eyes were drawn off, at almost the second glance, from mountain-peaks and glens to the slopes of cultivated lowland, sheeted with bright green cane, and guinea-grass, and pigeon pea; and that not for their own sakes, but for the sake of objects so utterly unlike anything which we had ever seen, that it was not easy, at first, to discover what they were.

They had no floors, no separate apartments, except the guinea negroes had sometimes a small inclosure for their 'god house.'

His twenty-five-guinea dressing-case, elaborately fitted uptoo completely indeed, for he had no use for the razorsoon enabled him to trim and prepare for the dining-room.

This shows that Lamb's salary was half a guinea weekly, paid half-yearly.

And horrified at the idea of her vulgarised charms the meek matron would consent to encase herself in one of Seraphine's severest corsets, called in bitterest mockery à la santéat five guineasin order that the dressmaker might measure her for a forty-guinea gown.

Corn was cultivated between the rows in some of the cane fields on the plantation, and some guinea-corn was bought from neighbors.

Quarter ditto, 2 guinea piece, 5 guinea ditto ... George III ...

A cold day as this, you wretch, Eliza, why did you not bring my coals to the door this morning, then I could have had my fire without a draft; I want a ten guinea draft, not a foggy, frosty draught.

We had duck eggs, guinea eggs, goose eggs, and turkey eggs.

Now some small chat, and guinea expectation, Gets all the pretty creatures in the nation: In comedy your little selves you meet; 10 'Tis Covent Garden drawn in Bridges Street.

Dr. (now Sir John) Kirk, who accompanied him in later years, mentions guinea-fowlthat do not breed in confinement, and are merely kept as petsin the Shiré valley, and Mr. Oswell has furnished me with one similar anecdote.

It was an order for a hundred-guinea funeral.

" "Is dat ring of yours good guinea gole, honey?" asked the mercenary creature, leering at it.

"You mustn't let a five-guinea hat destroy your hopes altogether," he continued, with a mischievous twinkle in his eyes.

But the bobby kens me fineI've bailed John oot twice, for a guinea ilka time, and they recognize steady customers there like anywheres else!

Or a guinea keet?

Pa was stocky, guinea man.

The papers as they first appeared in the daily issue of a penny (and after the stamp was imposed two-penny) folio half-sheet, have been closely compared with the first issue in guinea octavos, for which they were revised, and with the last edition that appeared before the death of Steele.

"Do you mind letting me have this yard as a pattern?" He went off with it, and before the dress rehearsal had produced about twenty yards of silk, which on the stage looked better than the twelve-guinea original.

Quarter ditto, 2 guinea piece, 5 guinea ditto ... George III ...

Even now, though he had steadied himself wonderfully, he could not get on without a little mild gamblinghalf-crown pool, whist with half-guinea pointsbut when he condescended to such small stakes he felt that he had settled down into a respectable middle-aged player, and had a right to rebuke the follies of youth.