Whether we pass wampum, or nickels, or taels, or bank-checks, we are not yet paid for our trade.

The country to the south tipped up to the hills, so sharply in places that it might have made its living by collecting nickels for the slide.

Its walls were made of a red cambric of a flowered pattern that still lingers with me, and was bought with a clatter of pennies on the counter, together with nickels that had escaped my extravagance at the soda fountain.

I gave them nickels and dimes and my children's outgrown clothes, and new fleece lined gloves for their blue little hands.

To say a silver mine, always seemed just like taking money out of the ground; but then, nickels are money tooand enough of 'em is all a body needs.

He drew out a meager handful of nickels and pennies, his vacant smile grown wistful.

"Father" was shaking his head at Ishmael, at the proffered nickels and penniesshaking his head and choking.

News from home to the effect that somebody was threatening to do him out of a few nickels sent him hightailing back to put a stop to it.

By the time he had his dimes, quarters, and nickels in separate stacks, services in the village church were finished, and the congregation came filing up the street.

[Tip O'Neill]; money is the root of all evil; money isn't everything; as phony as a three-dollar bill; don't take any wooden nickels.

Mrs. Marshall listened in silence and went herself to get the little bank stuffed full of painfully earned pennies and nickels.

Another group of very poor Poles sent in regularly about two hundred dollars per week, sometimes the bulk of it in nickels and dimes.

" Anderson retired gracefully, jingling his scanty handful of nickels and dimes, and a half-hour later thrust himself boldly in upon another editor, but with no better result.

His week was up, his nickels and dimes were gone, nevertheless he spent the day on his customary rounds.

When an ancient treasure of precious vessels, overscored with glowing gems and wrought artistically into wondrous shapes, has, by a prodigious process, been converted through a vast community into the small change, the simple circulating medium of dollars and 'nickels,' we can only say that the consequent permeation will be of values of a new order.

Entirely befogged, Great Taylor fumbled in her patent-leather bag with its worsted fruit, discovered two nickels, and placed the leaky boiler beside the rusty scales on the junk-cart.

But hers was bills, and mine is nickels and dimes and quarters and all like thatthousands of dollars' worth of 'em, and they're kind of disagreeable.

A hand sank swiftly into a pocket and brought up a scant few nickels and pennies.

My father explained to me that immediately after the outbreak of the War, specie, including even the nickels and copper pennies, had disappeared from circulation, and the people had been utilising for the small change necessary for current operations the postage stamps, a use which, in connection with the large percentage of destruction, was profitable to the government, but extravagant for the community.

SEE Norwood, Edwin P. Where two nickels are no dime.

Ann Norwood (W); 26Mar58; R211665. Where two nickels are no dime.

Den we'se paid big money, no nickels.

Fractional coins are those of smaller denominations than the standard unit of money, as shillings and pence in England, and half dollars, quarter dollars, dimes, nickels, and cents in America.

For example, within certain elastic limits of convenience quarters may be used for halves, and dimes for nickels (and vice versa); but each person has a point of preference.

As business increased in 1898, the demand for nickels, dimes, and quarters became unprecedented, and the mints worked night and day to supply them.