spade guinea
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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It did not seem different from any other spade guinea, yet there must have been something peculiar about it.
From Yellow-Cap and Other Fairy-Stories For Children by Hawthorne, Julian
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
He wore the whitest linen and blackest, glossiest broadcloth, a big black cravat, diamond stud in his shirt-front in the old fashion, and a heavy gold chain with a spade guinea attached.
From A Traveller in Little Things by Hudson, W. H. (William Henry)
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
"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
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