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Example sentences for "thousand guineas"

  • Up, up then," cried the Earl; "a thousand guineas if you bring it down!

  • I do not joke," said the Piper very quietly; "my thousand guineas, if you please.

  • I don't believe you can do it, but if you can, I'll give you a thousand guineas.

  • To make some sort of disappearance had been his precise intention, but to disappear in this fashion and make his return to the world with a thousand guineas in his pocket, had not exactly come within the scope of his imagination.

  • I, on the other hand, am giving a thousand guineas to keep you here as my guest.

  • If you have suffered your mind to dwell upon it for a single moment, try and remember the relative unimportance of such an amount when compared with a thousand guineas.

  • You wish me to discount at once that note of hand for a thousand guineas?

  • In a word, contrive that all those revelations shall appear in print, Mr. Green; and a thousand guineas shall be your recompense!

  • Murray after fuller consideration offered a thousand guineas, which Colonel Napier accepted, and the volume was accordingly published in the course of 1828.

  • Mr. Murray enclosed to Lord Byron two notes, amounting to a thousand guineas, for the copyright of the poems, but Lord Byron refused the notes, declaring that the sum was too great.

  • Murray offers me a thousand guineas for my intended poem in blank verse, and begs it may not be a line longer than "Thomson's Seasons"!

  • He wrote most industriously--in short, he wrote for a thousand guineas!

  • His eyes fell upon a review of a poem which had been lately published, and for which the author was said to have received a thousand guineas!

  • By these bills she appeared in debt to the amount of a thousand guineas.

  • There might be a thousand guineas in all.

  • When she had gone, Mrs. Wells told us that Kitty had eaten a bank-note for a thousand guineas, on a slice of bread and butter, that very day.

  • I did not wait to be pressed but placed a thousand guineas on the table, and as I had no counters of any kind I warned the company that I would only play gold against gold, and that I should stop playing whenever I thought fit.

  • In the course of the evening his Grace won three thousand guineas--two at ombre and one at dice--lost his coveted grey hunter and won him back again from Wilding, to whom he had fallen.

  • You do not deem losing a thousand guineas important?

  • Richard smiled a little cynically; he had already had to lend his Grace a thousand guineas to pay off some "trifling debt.

  • Rumour has it that the sum lost to the country in the manner already hinted exceeds fifty thousand guineas.

  • He learned that the one in question, with its house and garden and three hundred a year, had fetched a thousand guineas, and from that day Toft's aim was by hook or crook to gain a thousand guineas.

  • But a thousand guineas was a huge sum to the manservant.

  • He one night had a run of ill-luck at Arthur's, and lost about a thousand guineas.

  • None but women of quality are permitted to hold banks, and there are many whose faro-banks bring them in a clear income of a thousand guineas a year.

  • He lost a thousand guineas to a Shark, which he could not pay.


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