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Meanings of single farthing in English

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Usage of single farthing in English
1
I haven't had so much as a single farthing of it myself.
Young Mr. Barter's Repentance / From "Schwartz" by David Christi...
2
You shall not pay one single farthing for mine.
Married
3
Nobody had bought anything of her the whole livelong day; no one had given her a single farthing.
Andersen's Fairy Tales
4
A little while after, the providence of God called for that, so that not a single farthing remained.
A Narrative of Some of the Lord's Dealings with George Müller. P...
5
I thought I told you that I would not pay a single farthing, and I tell it you again.
The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Volume 1...
6
Let us examine each of these items, and we shall see that not a single farthing escapes the national labour.
Essays on Political Economy
7
I never was-andnever shall be-personallydesirous of paying a single farthing to any human creature on the habitable globe.
No Name
8
The governor told him he might get that as he could, for he would not advance him a single farthing.
A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume ...
9
Not a single farthing.
Purgatory: Doctrinal, Historical, and Poetical
10
So this is my opinion: every single farthing of your pay that you spend for such useless things is ill spent.
The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, V...
11
With him to advise us, we should have saved the sacred cause of Freedom without spending a single farthing on it!)
Poor Miss Finch
12
Never praise or talk of your children to other people; for, depend upon it, no person except yourself cares a single farthing about them.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 20,...
13
Not a single farthing have we left in our pockets if we were to turn them inside out, and here you are putting on airs!
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume ...
14
They hinted that the enterprise of the Gun Club was contrary to the "principle of non-intervention." And they did not subscribe a single farthing.
From the Earth to the Moon; and, Round the Moon
15
'Not a single farthing will I take!
The Yellow Fairy Book
16
"Sir, I do not wish for the friendship of robbers, and I will not play a single farthing."
The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Volume 1...
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