He came to ask for a hundred pounds; he says he has an opportunity of doing better, if he can have that sum.
Are you afraid my nerves are growing delicate, or that I shall faint over the loss of a hundred pounds?
I have a hundred pounds' weight less upon my chest.
I cannot throw the loop through this partition nor move with a pack-thread a cask of wine which may perhaps weigh two hundred pounds.
In the year 1737, a bill of exchange on London, for a hundred pounds sterling, sold for seven hundred and fifty pounds Carolina currency.
Carolina money was given for a bill of an hundred pounds sterling on England; at which rate it afterwards continued, with little variation, for upwards of forty years.
Allow me to write you a cheque for a hundred pounds.
But Mr. Burnett was always a very headstrong man; he had quarrelled with this young man, as he said, irreparably, and could not be induced to leave him even a hundred pounds.
Five years ago he had written, asking him for the loan of a hundred pounds.
There's a man lives there whom I did out of a hundred pounds-- just a little variation of the confidence trick.
But for me you would have been on your way to South Africa by this time, with a hundred pounds in your pocket.
He gave you a hundred pounds, to procure which, he assured you with tears in his eyes, they had almost beggared themselves.
She was quite lately, as I dare say you remember, able to give me some very useful information; in fact it is through her that Mr. Stanley did not leave this country for South Africa with a hundred pounds in his pocket.
Not contented with having paid twelve hundred pounds on my account, in the space of one fortnight, he would have loaded me with present after present, had I not absolutely refused to accept such expensive marks of his munificence.
The match was fixed for one hundred pounds a game, the principals chose their instruments, and laid aside their coats, and one of the knights of the order proffered to lay another hundred on the head of his associate.
In the receipts and payments of the Exchequer the milled money did not exceed ten shillings in a hundred pounds.
Three eminent London goldsmiths were invited to send a hundred pounds each in current silver to be tried by the balance.
He, however, in the hope of perplexing the witnesses for the Crown, expended a hundred pounds in procuring a sumptuous embroidered suit against the day of trial.
We were also surprised at his wanting so much money, for he had taken a hundred pounds in gold, which from some fancy, he had stowed in a small silver jewel-box that he had given my mother not long before she died.
He had also taken a hundred pounds worth of gold nuggets, which he had intended to sell in Erewhon so as to provide himself with money when he got there.
This third letter I have given him with a promise of a hundred pounds in silver for his new Cathedral, to be paid as soon as I get an answer from you.
Buying these shares might lose me all that I have got, and could not do more than put a hundred pounds or so in my pocket.
I did what was very foolish, I dare say; but the idea never occurred to me till it was too late, that I might be suspected of making a false report on the subject, because I had embarked a hundred pounds in it.
In the first place we shall want, I should say, a couple of hundred pounds of dynamite; then we shall have to take some natives with us, a couple of Zulus and two or three Swazis.
Nothing has been drawn at present, and with a couple of hundred pounds between us we shall have enough and to spare for however long we may be away.
Our people are all going to pay for our outfit, and you know they have agreed to give us a hundred pounds each to last us through the war.
Haydon already owed his landlord two hundred pounds, but that seemed to him no reason for moving into cheaper rooms.
Peel asked how much Haydon charged for a whole length figure, and was told a hundred pounds, which was the price of an ordinary portrait.
I know a chap who made a Jubilee Perfume, and he's netting something like a hundred pounds a day.
It was a match for the Sprint Championship and a hundred pounds.
Vawdrey might be induced to lend him a hundred pounds or so.
The cheques he received varied greatly in amount,--from handsome remittances of a hundred pounds or so, down to minim gifts which made the young man feel uncomfortable when he received them.
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