84 Verbs to Use for the Word guinea

When John remarked that he was "summat ruff," the gentleman at whose house Mr. Whittaker was staying nearly had a fit; and after he had at length recovered his gravity he ejaculated, "Well, I would have given a guinea to have seen you before you did go".

"If they want to come," Lady Champignon (wife of Alderman Champignon) would say, "they do not mind paying the extra half-guinea.

Later, Fanny Burney wrote "Cecilia," for which she received two thousand guineas, and "Camilla," for which she received three thousand guineas.

The Subscription for this monument, which cost eleven hundred guineas, was begun by the LITERARY CLUB.

In 1817 he begins to dun Murray, declaring, with a frankness in which we can find no fault, "You offer 1500 guineas for the new canto (C. H., iv.).

'Sir, I imagine the delay of publication is owing to this;that, after publication, there will be no more subscribers, and few will send the additional guinea to get their books: in which they will be wrong; for there will be a great deal of instruction in the work.

Being told that the geographer near Charing Cross was Faden's son, he said, after a short pause:"I borrowed a guinea of his father near thirty years ago; be so good as to take this, and pay it for me.

Once when he had a bad head he shouted down to them not to make so much noise, and in the morning he found an old guinea left on the anvil as an apology.

He lent our author five guineas, and then asked him, "How do you mean to earn your livelihood in this town?"

It's to bring in sixty guineas.

I'll lay a guinea that Oswald goes to the hospital before this day week.

Only the other day I heard of patients he had sent to St. Elizabeth's, Great Ormond Street, where incurable patients are nursed and cared for until they die, and never left the hospital without leaving a guinea with one of the nuns.

I found the custom house officers, and their myrmidon porters, exactly as Smollet has described them; two of these gentlemen had the impudence to charge me half a guinea for bringing my trunk seventy yards.

The Emperor overheard her, and, turning round, advanced to her, and, pulling off his glove, gave her his hand, and, at the same time dropping a guinea into hers, said to her, 'Perhaps this will do as well.'

"Well, we must spin for it," said Nicholson, taking a guinea from his pocket.

It was betting guineas against pennies, and on a limited stock of guineas.

"Well, haven't I won the guinea, now?

To the widow he allowed half-a-guinea a week, the twelfth part, as Boswell observes, of his pension.

I ask 2500 guineas for it, which you will either give or not, as you think proper."

On the sixth of the next month, he informs her that "he gets four guineas a month by one Magazine, and that he shall engage to write a history of England and other pieces, which will more than double that sum."

"A few members of his Society, including some of the wealthier of his own family, raised £1200 among them for his benefit [not 2000 guineas, as Lamb says].

That on the delivery of the last MS. sheet you remit 100 guineas to Mrs. Coleridge, or Mr. Robert Southey, at a bill of five weeks.

'He asked Dr. Parrbut in vainto include in the epitaph Johnson's title of Professor of Ancient Literature to the Royal Academy; as it was on this pretext that he persuaded the Academicians to subscribe a hundred guineas.'

I swore that time, sure as ever I earned a guinea, that guinea should go to you.

Johnson mentions two and three guineas as the old and new prices; others give four and six.ED.

84 Verbs to Use for the Word  guinea