"Stone-broke" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the company of close on L100,000, and never a soul'd have bin the wiser if I'd helped myself to a thousand or two. But the reel digger don't act so—it's the loafers on the diggings gets us a bad name. I've dreamed of it, I've had reg'lar nightmares about it when I've bin stone-broke and without a sixpence ...
— The Tale of Timber Town • Alfred Grace
... near as no matter! I don't hunderstand more than arf Of his patter; he's preciously given to potry and classical charf. But the cheek on it, CHARLIE! A Stone-broke! I should like to give him wot for, Only DANNEL the Dosser's a dab orf of whom t'ain't so ...
— Punch, or The London Charivari, Vol. 101, August 15, 1891 • Various |
