"Old money" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... you don't know that they're saying I broke off the match Twixt old Money-grubber and Mary, by saying she called him "Crosspatch," When the only allusion I made him about sister Mary was, she Cared more for his cash than his temper, and you know, Jack, you said ...
— Complete Poetical Works of Bret Harte • Bret Harte
... and sixpences. Plump Mrs. Sewall bore down hard upon her side of the scales, but still the servants shovelled in the bright, fresh pine-tree shillings, until Mrs. Sewall began to rise. Then the mintmaster ordered them to forbear. 'There, you Sewall,' said the magnanimous old money maker, 'take these shillings for my daughter's portion. Use her kindly, and thank Heaven for her; for it is not every wife that is worth her weight in silver.' And Master Sewell took Mistress Sewall and thirty thousand pounds (not avoirdupois, ...
— The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No. 6, December 1864 - Devoted To Literature And National Policy • Various
... remorse—to proclaim his relations with his landlady and commercial partner, the shopkeeper's wife, before all their acquaintances, at one of her entertainments—and also to announce himself as the murderer of the old money-lender. Nor is it the guilty sense of Raskolnikov that impels this moujik to confession and reparation. It is his repugnance for the men in contrast with whom he stands out as an ...
— Maxim Gorki • Hans Ostwald
... old money chucked down your throat!" exclaimed Sandy. "I'm getting sick of the sound of ...
— The Call of the Beaver Patrol - or, A Break in the Glacier • V. T. Sherman
... let me explain to you just what my mother means. This house is not for sale," he said, in positive tones that made the old money-lender stare ...
— Dick the Bank Boy - Or, A Missing Fortune • Frank V. Webster |
