This town was the first Southampton, and there Athelstane is said to have established mints.

"Yes, I thought so too, and I spent a mint of money before finding out that the dog whose slaver that brazen impostor Panurgiades pretended to sell me was no more mad than he was."

When cold add same quantity vinegar, then 3 or 4 tablespoons freshly pulled mint, chopped small.

They must have cost a mint of money.

The ecclesiastics, the nobility, the bourgeois, all gave up their plate and their jewels to furnish the mint, which continued to coin money of every description, and, in consequence of the discovery of America, and the working of the gold and silver mines in that country, the precious metals poured into the hands of the money-changers.

A metal tray bearing a Britannia samovar and tea-pot was placed on the tiles of the court, and squatting beside it the newcomer gravely proceeded to infuse the mint.

Then he gave the waiter a couple of dollars out of his own pocket and wrote Van Bibber's name on the check, and walked in state into the café, where he ordered a green mint and a heavy, black, and expensive cigar, and seated himself at the window, where he felt that he should always have sat if the fates had been just.

On the whole, as Carthage coined only to a very limited extent,(21) there existed not a single important mint in addition to that of Rome in the region of the western Mediterranean, with the exception of that of Massilia and perhaps also those of the Illyrian Greeks in Apollonia and Dyrrhachium.

"I think we'll take you up on that proposition to trade mint for cigarettes," said Mr. Britt.

Or like handing out after-dinner mints to a mob of starving men.

He kept a table-book, in which he had written the characters of all the eminent men of the nation: he studied fortification, and understood the mint well.

John Bull, who has invested a mint of money in other lands, realises that it is high time that he put something into his ownin the shape of Corn Bounties.

The limit of tolerance is the variation either above or below the standard weight or fineness that a coin is allowed to have when it leaves the mint.

But I saw his face when he lifted that mint.

If we let him go we lose the mint.

He came to the master and offered the mint; and Donnegan, raising it to his face, inhaled the scent deeply.

Nevertheless, the proposal to open the mints to the free coinage of silver at the ratio of 16 to 1 in the year 1896 threatened a sudden and marked cheapening of money.

I want that mint!" For a moment Andy was too stunned to answer.

The Enemy planted the mint in its bed of chipped ice.

It was all wonderfully clean and sweet, and the cobbled pavement, the straw beds, the hay tumbling in sweet-scented bunches into the stalls from the loft overhead, made you forget that around this bucolic enclosure swarmed and rotted the foulest slums of the city, garrets where coiners plied their amateur mints, and cellars where murderers lay hidden in the dark.

The government, having declared what is the standard money unit, and having provided a mint to make coins, leaves it to citizens, acting from the ordinary competitive motives, to decide when they will reduce or increase the number of coins in circulation.

She was seeing the calm face of Donnegan as he raised the mint.

These smelter products were in gold retorts of such a size that they could be made away with as easily as though they had reached the mint and been coined.

We'll get a thousand dollarsfive thousand, if necessaryin hard gold coin, if we have to rob the mint for it.

Usually I got caught at it, for a man couldn't run the mint long with the kind of luck I have.