The distance will be shorter for you, and you will stop him at Mrs. Clare's cottage--a hundred guineas to any one who brings him in.
Mr. Mowle thinks himself above five or ten pounds; but the chink of a hundred guineas is a very pleasant sound.
It will be well worth my while to give him a hundred guineas to wink a bit.
He's concealed in my brother's house, for a hundred guineas!
Haydon received his fee of a hundred guineas, and the picture now hangs in St Andrew's Hall, Norwich.
He had been invited to paint the portrait of Robert Hawkes, an ex-mayor of Norwich, for a fee of a hundred guineas.
A hundred guineasto sixpence I do," says he: "bring me the handkerchief.
The gauger was cast, and my master won the bet, and thought he'd won a hundred guineas, but by the wording it was adjudged to be only a tester that was his due by the exciseman.
For the matter of that," said his companion, "I should like a hundred guineas as well as another.
I believe it is as good as a bank-note of a hundred guineas.
There is something like a hundred guineas among my effects--that will help.
He was not a hard man, and had meant to do his duty when he heard Bolger speak of Adair's intended escape; but a hundred guineas was a large sum to him.
I settled a hundred guineas on the old man when I got to Dublin, and made him an annuity which enabled him to pass his old days in comfort.
I slept that night twenty miles off Ballywhacket, at the house of a cottier, who gave me potatoes and milk, and to whom I gave a hundred guineas after, when I came to visit Ireland in my days of greatness.
I should have left you a hundred guineas, Redmond,' were his last words to me, 'but for a cursed run of ill luck last night at faro.
The surgeon consented, and on being asked what remuneration he would require, said that his fee was a hundred guineas.
He lived with her only for a fortnight, during which short space of time he thrashed her soundly twice or thrice, and then decamped with a hundred guineas of her earnings.
I have known Lord Delacour shirk, and look so shabby, and tell so many lies to people about a hundred guineas--a hundred guineas!
Mr. Prescott Hewett, the surgeon, gave a hundred guineas, and other liberal donations and subscriptions were announced, amounting to upwards of L2000.
The Prince had previously, immediately after fixing the stone, handed to the Treasurer, a check for a hundred guineas.
I never entered her house myself though she had the audacity to invite me,--I learned moreover, that she had promised a friend of mine a hundred guineas if she could persuade me to make one appearance in her rooms.
It will cost you,--say a hundred guineas--perhaps a trifle more.
I said indolently--"And pay him two hundred guineas!
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