127 Verbs to Use for the Word guineas

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.).

Old Dobbin, his father, who now respected him for the first time, gave him two guineas publicly; most of which he spent in a general tuck-out for the school: and he came back in a tail-coat after the holidays.

I have seen the man who offered a hundred guineas for the young bull, while he was yet little better than a calf.

'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.

Why else should the man, who knows pictures as I know you, pay twenty thousand guineas for a footling copy of a Corot that wouldn't deceive aa Royal Academician!

' I mentioned the very liberal payment which had been received for reviewing; and, as evidence of this, that it had been proved in a trial, that Dr. Shebbeare had received six guineas a sheet for that kind of literary labour.

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.

It's to bring in sixty guineas.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

In May, 1738, appeared his "London," imitated from the Third Satire of Juvenal, for which he got ten guineas from Dodsley.

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.'

An English clergyman, formerly a teacher at Harrow, has an establishment for boys, well conducted, and the expense does not exceed fifty guineas a year.

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

The pictures being in good frames, which cost Hogarth four guineas a piece, his remuneration for painting this valuable series was but a few shillings more than one hundred pounds.

127 Verbs to Use for the Word  guineas