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Meanings of golden guineas in English
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Usage of golden guineas in English
1
A hundred goldenguineas on his head, and half for you.
2
Down he goes, offs with his stocking, and there was thirty goldenguineas.
3
Not for twenty goldenguineas, Andrew, would I face Mistress Janet.
4
He was happy, for he heard the jingling of goldenguineas in the near future.
5
She was much more likely to find it in her clothes-press filled with goldenguineas.
6
So here's the story, and with any luck it will cost John five goldenguineas.
7
They were as good goldenguineas as ever bore the effigies of the king of England.
8
Wing her if you can; knock away her foremast, and twenty goldenguineas shall be yours.
9
And when he brayed there dropped from his mouth silver sixpences, and half-crowns, and goldenguineas.
10
She had filled one hand with goldenguineas, and now poured a Danäe-stream into Olive's lap.
11
Constable ripened fast; he got his reward of goldenguineas, and society caught him in its silken mesh.
12
There were a handful of silver coins, two goldenguineas and three or four folded sheets of paper.
13
They say, Why not call it 'Trotty Veck,' and sell it for a round harmony of goldenguineas?
14
We had been paid, in consequence of our being about to sail foreign; and we had been paid in goldenguineas.
15
In the end he tried first there was silver, and in the other five goldenguineas in a little silken inner case.
16
In 1340, in consideration of a hundred goldenguineas contributed toward the armament against France, the king made over the Temple to the Hospitallers.