He dealt in shekels and stocks, and bloomed and flourished, and soon became like unto a golden calf, and lo!

The owners hire performers to do stunts, and break their necks, while we manage them and take in the shekels from the Reubens who come into town on circus day.

May 14.This has been a week that would kill anybody, and pa and I talk of resigning, though pa feels as though he didn't want to break up the show by going away right in the middle of the harvesting of shekels from the country men, and I don't know what would happen if pa and I should both be taken sick at the same time.

After they had drunk, he gave her two rings to hang on her ears weighing two shekels, and as many armlets weighing ten shekels, and asked her whose daughter she was, and if there were any room in her father's house to be lodged.

After they had drunk, he gave her two rings to hang on her ears weighing two shekels, and as many armlets weighing ten shekels, and asked her whose daughter she was, and if there were any room in her father's house to be lodged.

The weight of his habergeon was of five thousand shekels of weight of metal.

His glaive was as a great colestaff, and there was thereon six shekels of iron, and his squire went tofore him and cried against them of Israel, and said they should choose a man to fight a singular battle against Goliath, and if he were overcome the Philistines should be servants to Israel, and if he prevailed and overcame his enemy, they of Israel should serve the Philistines, and thus he did cry forty days long.

This Absalom was the fairest man that ever was, for from the sole of his foot unto his head there was not a spot; he had so much hair on his head that it grieved him to bear, wherefore it was shorn off once a year, it weighed two hundred shekels of good weight.

In another fortnight I had sailed for Sydney with my shekels and my wife.

For my own part, I think there is nothing finer in all Shakspeare than the interview between Angelo and Isabella, in the Second Act, or that exquisite outburst of the latter, afterward, "Not with fond shekels of the tested gold," which is a line the sugar of which you can sensibly taste as you read it.

His estate consists much in shekels, and Roman coins; and he hath more pictures of Cæsar, than James or Elizabeth.

If the bird is an orphan, examine the books in the Surrogate's office until you find her father's will; if her papa is still alive and kicking, persuade her to take his bank-book into the back kitchen and there count the shekels.

Even so the prophet Jeremiah purchased a field in Anathoth, in the days when Judah was captive unto Babylon, paying down the money, seventeen shekels of silver, as a token of his faith that the land would some day be delivered from the enemy and restored to peaceful and orderly habitation.

I say unto you, not less than thirty shekels, which is the valuation of a servant, as declared in Ex. xxi.

19: "They shall amerce him in one hundred shekels," and in 2 Chron.

19: "They shall amerce him in one hundred shekels," and in 2 Chron.

I say unto you, not less than thirty shekels, which is the valuation of a servant, as declared in Exodus xxi.

They shall amerce him in one hundred shekels," and in 2 Chron.

I say unto you, not less than thirty shekels, which is the valuation of a servant, as declared in Ex. xxi.

19: "They shall amerce him in one hundred shekels," and in 2 Chron.

* SUSAN VAN DOOZEN I'll write, for I'm witty, a popular ditty, To bring to me shekels and fame, And the only right way one may write one to-day Is to give it some Irish girl's name.

The main part of the story is that of the authorized version, but after the account of the relinquishment of the coins by Judas, saying that he had betrayed innocent blood, and of their use in the purchase of the potter's field, occurs a passage translated by Barwood as follows: "Now the shekels were of the coinage of Simon, the high priest, which Antiochus authorized him to issue.

Poor Mr. Harvey, the editor of 1819, being hopelessly puzzled by "silverlings," the only dictionary meaning of which is "shekels," explained "crusions" to be some other kind of money, from [Greek: krousis].

Thirty shekels, about 3l. 10s.

I've saved no end of shekels, and I'm going to give old Cox a run for his money (the bit that's mine, I mean, that he's been keeping for me).