crown-piece

But saving ae crown-piece, he'd naething else beside,

Letter 234 2009

A sou, sometimes a crown-piece, a stone, a skeleton, a bleeding body, sometimes a spectre folded in four like a sheet of paper in a portfolio, sometimes nothing.

Les Miserables 2008

Moreover, Oliver Giles, a man of seventeen, one of the dancers, who was enamoured of his partner, a fair girl of thirty-three rolling years, had recklessly handed a new crown-piece to the musicians, as a bribe to keep going as long as they had muscle and wind.

Wessex Tales 2006

The former blubbered so, that Mr. Warrington was quite touched by his fidelity, and gave him a crown-piece to go to supper with the poor girl, who turned out to be his sweetheart.

The Virginians 2006

A speck was seen rapidly descending from the heavens; it grew to be as big as a crown-piece, then as a partridge, then as a tea-kettle, and flop! down fell a magnificent heron to the ground, flooring poor Max in its fall.

A Legend of the Rhine 2006

A speck was seen rapidly descending from the heavens; it grew to be as big as a crown-piece, then as a partridge, then as a tea-kettle, and flop! down fell a magnificent heron to the ground, flooring poor Max in its fall.

Burlesques 2006

Here is a crown-piece for them to drink my health, and thanks for their good-will.

Rob Roy 2005

‘Remarkable case of a person who swallowed a crown-piece, sir?’

Our Mutual Friend 2004

The white cloth now appeared the size of a crown-piece.

A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi and Its Tributaries 2004

Then, added my father, making use of the argument Ad Crumenam, — I will lay twenty guineas to a single crown-piece (which will serve to give away to Obadiah when he gets back) that this same Stevinus was some engineer or other — or has wrote something or other, either directly or indirectly, upon the science of fortification.

The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman 2003