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Example sentences for "twenty guineas"

  • We make the very best plain-finished article for five-and-twenty guineas in London.

  • A wager of twenty guineas will at any time overthrow and confute all the logic of the most able syllogist, who has not got a shilling in his pocket.

  • Thus the dispute began, and was maintained with great vehemence, until other arguments failing, the squire offered to lay a wager of twenty guineas.

  • Although the prizes offered amounted in all to the handsome sum of twenty guineas, there was a noticeable falling off in the attendance of wrestlers.

  • Twenty guineas to spend in rioting and drunkenness at his wedding feast!

  • And he thought it was John Garnet, whose life he had thirsted to take for a reward of twenty guineas.

  • This day week, at Devizes, he'll be worth ten, aye, twenty guineas in red gold.

  • That, till I had completed my number, he would allow me one hundred a year; and and when I had completed it, twenty guineas a year for each son.

  • I promised him, on the sale of the second edition of 500, twenty guineas.

  • And I bequeath to the same good gentlewomen, as a further token of my thankful acknowledgements of their kind love and compassionate concern for me, the sum of twenty guineas each.

  • I desire him likewise to accept of twenty guineas for a ring: and that he will reimburse himself for all the charges and expenses which he shall be at in the execution of this trust.

  • I beg of him, as a testimony of my gratitude, to accept of twenty guineas for a ring.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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