On he went, apportioning every penny of that hard-earned increase of twenty pounds per annum.
This was the ordinary town courtesan, who, eschewing the penny and twopenny rabble of the pit and gallery, frequented the cheapest of the better-class seats, or main body of the house.
Heaven knows he has; but he will never grow rich with it, for he never takes a penny unless they can well spare it, which is not often the case, and frequently he gives them medicine besides.
They fled to Paris, where in less than a year John lost down to his last penny in speculations.
I defy him to spend the penny just tossed him, without the State stepping in between him and his poor bite and taking a portion of it away.
One young fellow threw me a penny as he went, but I could not have stooped for it had my life been on the issue.
I know, too, that many of the donors who contemptuously threw their penny as they passed were far poorer than the recipient of their bounty.
Arriving in the evening at Lausanne, I went into an ale-house, without a penny in my pocket to pay for my lodging, or knowing what would become of me.
Grandmother had used the last sheet of paper and the last envelope when she ordered the bolt of brown alpaca, and with stern suspicion held Rosemary to account for every penny with which she was entrusted.
Sometimes Alden wrote to her, but she was unable to answer, for stationery and stamps were unfamiliar possessions; Grandmother held the purse-strings tightly, and every penny had to be accounted for.
And Jill climbs on a penny 'bus, or steps into the family brougham, and dreams with regret of a lost garden, where there was just one man and just one woman, and clothes grew on a fig tree.
Thanks to his long practice, our host won everypenny to the annoyance of his colleagues.
Logan interviewed Miss Martin, who wrote tales for the penny fiction people, on her methods.
She came with Miss Martin, the penny novelist,' said Logan.
And there is Miss Martin, who does stories for the penny story papers at a shilling the thousand words.
Therefore, he had this afternoon gone to High Street, Clapham, to apply for seven pun' thirteen, and not take a penny less.
You know, my dear, if we have talked it over once, we have talked it over five hundred times, and no one is a penny the wiser.
But that would come to every penny of fifteen shillings, and would be a reg'lar poor job, and would show.
For Mr. Nixon being a penny short, her anxiety that he should observe his own rules of life had been reinforced by commercialism.
Uncle Moses allowed the position of bailee, but disposed of the penny as Solomon suggested in the case of the baby, giving one halfpenny to Michael, and putting the other in Dave's cat on the mantelshelf.
That is every penny," she said--"every penny I have in the house.
He won't be a penny the worse, and he'll know what o'clock it is.
I do know this, though, that I shall never believe that if I had been first seen by her in my character as a corpse, either she or I would ever have been a penny the wiser.
Not a penny of mine shall go your way, Wix, till I've put it on the fire, and seen it burn.
Yet, senor, in less than a year, fail it did for an amount which swept away every penny of my fortune, and left me stranded high and dry on the shores of adversity.
All the people seemed to do was to walk up and down in an endless stream, eat chestnuts and blow penny trumpets.
She has every confidence in me, and the idea that I would take a penny that did not belong to me would break her heart.
Let him put the penny in my white hand When he hears the gypsies cry: "Buy, buy laces, Veils to screen your faces.
I sell them at a penny the piece, but they're awfu' rubbish.
I found one, and, lifting a corner of her apron, she produced a penny which she laid upon the table, and with a finger already between the pages of the book disappeared into the inn.
Yer game leg is evidence eneuch o' that, and when ye come to a toon or a wee bit clachan, ye can aye turn an honest penny by singin' a sang.
The system of the Common Penny had failed, owing to the difficulty of collection.
The King's pardon, above mentioned, was published, and the abolition of the Council of Blood and the tax of the tenth penny promised.
France, although she had lost an army and her King, was still France, and was determined to resist invasion to the last penny in her purse, and the last drop of her blood.
The tax of the Common Penny they declared to be a scheme on the part of the princes to tax the peasants.
I wot, there has been nane stirred in the Waste since Sawney Culloch, the travelling-merchant, that Rowley Overdees and Jock Penny suffered for at Carlisle twa years since.
Baby's sleeping sound, And the wild plums grow in the jungle, only a penny a pound.
Footnote 52: Imposing a penny stamp upon bankers' cheques, if drawn within fifteen miles of the place where they were payable.
The measure, after strong opposition, passed the Commons by a majority of fifteen, and the Peers subsequently accepted the Budget, which took a penny off the income tax, while maintaining the existing tea and sugar Duties.
You beg a single penny more; come, you shall ha't; save your word.
Therefore, go speak- the Duke will hear thy voice; And let not Bardolph's vital thread be cut With edge of penny cord and vile reproach.
I never robb'd the soldiers of their pay Nor ever had one penny bribe from France.
I do believe Statist though I am none, nor like to be, That this will prove a war; and you shall hear The legions now in Gallia sooner landed In our not-fearing Britain than have tidings Of any penny tribute paid.
What penny hath Rome borne, What men provided, what munition sent, To underprop this action?
An I had but one penny in the world, thou shouldst have it to buy ginger-bread.
For I shall never hold that man my friend Whose tongue shall ask me for one penny cost To ransom home revolted Mortimer.
He kept him up conversing until midnight; and next morning would not touch a pennyof his money.
However it was but a small affair now--only a three penny excise on the pound of tea.
Having, for four years past, been carefully turning into books every penny he could spare, he had by this time made up a pretty little library.
English ports, and there give them the meanest prices; sometimes a penny, and even half a penny a pound for their brightest tobacco, which they would the next hour sell to the Dutch merchants for two shillings a pound.
A penny sav'd is two-pence clear, A pin a day's a groat a year.
But she told him to put it up, put it up, for she would not take a penny of it.
Now, on the bright face of that government, the first and fairest feature is this: that no king can touch a penny belonging to the poorest subject, without his own consent, by his representative in parliament.
The fixing and putting all their things to rights, having consumed every penny of their money, our young beginners were at their wit's end what to be at.
At some of these the charge is threepence for a bathe, and at one it is a penny for members of the club.
