spade guinea
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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Ah! this will do—this half of a spade guinea that you wear at your neck.
From Yellow-Cap and Other Fairy-Stories For Children by Hawthorne, Julian
And Raymond never forgot this adventure; and as a kind of pledge of its reality he ever afterwards wore the spade guinea round his neck by a silken string.
From Yellow-Cap and Other Fairy-Stories For Children by Hawthorne, Julian
"I asked," he said, "because one of these happens to be a guinea-piece—a spade guinea, and scarcely worn at all."
From Nicky-Nan, Reservist by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir
Might not that half of the spade guinea give the dwarf some power over her?
From Yellow-Cap and Other Fairy-Stories For Children by Hawthorne, Julian
Then he took from the purse that hung at his belt a new spade guinea, gave it a fillip into the air, and down it fell in the little boy's lap.
From Yellow-Cap and Other Fairy-Stories For Children by Hawthorne, Julian
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