Which preposition to use with farthing

of Occurrences 36%

This is unfortunately decisive of the fact that he did not in spirit adhere to the resolution expressed to Moore never to touch a farthing of his wife's money, though we may accept his statement to Medwin, that he twice repaid the dowry of 10,000 l. brought to him at the marriage, as in so far diminishing the obligation.

in Occurrences 16%

and horsemen galloped forth, casting among them nuts enveloped in silver-leaf and apples and comfits and trinkets and brass farthings in incredible quantities.

for Occurrences 13%

How else are they to get a farthing for schools, or coal-subscriptions, or lying-in societies, or lending libraries, or penny clubs?

from Occurrences 7%

He was turned out into the world by his father with his hundred a year from the Fellowship, and never had a farthing from the old destroyer of country-seats afterwards.

on Occurrences 4%

Such, too, was his maniacal, sordid avarice that he no longer spent a farthing on himself apart from the money which he paid for his breadbread of the commonest kind, which he purchased every four days and ate when it was stale, in order that he might make it last the longer.

with Occurrences 3%

Guess at my expenses; but I owe in some measure the extension of my feeble life to her care through a long succession of years, and I would cheerfully divide my last farthing with her.

per Occurrences 3%

thirty-three cows and two bulls cost but eight pounds seven shillings, money of that age; five hundred sheep, twenty- two pounds ten shillings, or about ten pence three farthings per sheep; sixty-six oxen, eighteen pounds three shillings; fifteen breeding mares, two pounds twelve shillings and sixpence; and twenty-two hogs, one pound two shillings.

to Occurrences 3%

That child was not worth a farthing to him, because it was no longer his chattel; and while the law gives him power to rob the mother, it has no compulsion to make him support the child.

about Occurrences 3%

"When he was told," said the Duke of Northumberland on August 10th, "that the people of England were very anxious to abolish the House of Lords, his reply was that they did not understand the question, and did not care two brass farthings about it."

without Occurrences 2%

[His box and counters prove him to be a man of reckoning, yet] he is stricter in his accounts than a usurer, and delivers not a farthing without writing.

as Occurrences 2%

No man can say without lying that I ever took a farthing as a present or put anyone to expense.

out Occurrences 2%

Methinks it is more disgrace for one of our garb to wring hard-earned farthings out of the gripe of poor lean peasants.

above Occurrences 2%

Not one farthing above that shalt thou get."

into Occurrences 1%

The commons are stated to have thrown every man a farthing into the consul's house, that he might be buried with more splendid obsequies.

among Occurrences 1%

To tell you the plain Truth, I catched her once, at eleven Years old, at Chuck-Farthing among the Boys.

beside Occurrences 1%

For all the glowing wealth and beauty of this big round world must show as a new-minted farthing beside his treasure chests, as one slight shining unimportant coin whicheven this also!belongs to earth, but has been overlooked by him as yet.

beyond Occurrences 1%

Terrified by the ferocious manner and threatening attitude of the termagant, and beginning to feel that the getting safe out of the house ought to be considered as a most desirable object, I told her, in the most conciliatory manner I could assume, that I had not a farthing beyond two or three shillings, which she was welcome to; all my money having been in the pocket-book which I had lostI dared not say of which I had been robbed.

about Occurrences 1%

The English care not one farthing about slavery.

off Occurrences 1%

And I find you up, wandering homeless, and picking farthings off dead women by the wayside!

toward Occurrences 1%

Then his wages for over four years, at fifty dollars per month, left a balance against the board of several hundred dollars, which we had no funds to cancel, inasmuch as the reverend gentleman had paid us nothing of all he had collected in Europe, nor even paid a farthing toward liquidating the debts incurred for his outfit and expenses.

towards Occurrences 1%

The authors stood supinely by, not contributing a farthing towards the expenses.

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