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Usage examples of coin.

In spite of all these considerations, I felt a sort of pleasure in accepting for ready cash all the counterfeit coins that she had spread out before me.

His defence was firm, his submission was not inglorious, and the emperor was content with an easy tribute, the demolition of his fortresses, and the acknowledgment, on his coins, of a supreme lord.

Using a tossed coin to make sure she chose the piles randomly, she buried one acorn in the first and the other in the second.

Out front on the green cement lawn a tiptoed Cupid, wings aflutter, squirted from pouty lips an eternal stream of blue-colored water into a marble pool deep in good-luck coins and casino chips.

Pirem handed over a coin before Ager could dig out any coppers from his purse.

Athenian Agora, which housed not only shops and markets but government and law offices, the mint for coining money, and the prison.

Left-handed compliment that it was, Alec returned the grin as he snapped the coin up his sleeve a final time.

The following morning Alec tried the coin catches again but his cold fingers were too stiff.

Satisfied with the contents of the parcel and a second coin, the chief warder turned Alec over to another guard, who led him into the depths of the chilly edifice.

Our alfresco performance was an impromptu affair, since we had no props, but we did well enough with silks and coins and such sketchy materials-as you know, real magicians can work under any circumstances.

Lord King had recently issued a circular-letter to his tenants, that he would no longer receive bank-notes at par, but that his rents must for the future be paid either in English guineas, or in equivalent weight of Portuguese gold coin, or in bank notes amounting to a sum sufficient to purchase such an equivalent weight of gold.

The House declares an ancient interest in the land of Kellarin, by virtue of the investment in goods, coin and people made by Sieur Ancel Den Rannion in the days of Nemith the Last, even up to the cost of his own life.

It was a ceramic disc, an ancient coin exactly like the coin the anchorite had given him.

And he remembered that although he had lost the coin which the anchorite had given him, he had found a replacement.

He already showed the power, in which he was probably unequalled, of coining aphorisms out of commonplace.