He was standing on the pavement outside Nick Farthing's house, his face damp from the thick night mist.
He was standing on the pavement outside Nick Farthing's house, his face damp from the thick night mist.
I want peace; yes, I'd sell the whole world for a farthing, straight off, so long as I was left in peace. Is the world to go to pot, or am I to go without my tea? I say that the world may go to pot for me so long as I always get my tea. Did you know that, or not? Well, anyway, I know that I am a blackguard, a scoundrel, an egoist, a sluggard.
It is burning a farthing candle at Dover, to shew light at Calais.
How commentators each dark passage shun, And hold their farthing candle to the sun.
I have never received a Farthing of Prize Money either for Artillery Ammunition or Vessels.
Tis the maddest trick a man can ever play in his whole life, to let his breath sneak out of his body without any more ado, and without so much as a rap oer the pate, or a kick of the guts to go out like the snuff of a farthing candle, and die merely of the mulligrubs, or the sullens.
Let us live my Lesbia, and love, and value at one farthing all the talk of crabbed old men
A Judge may be a farmer but he is not to geld his own pigs. A Judge may play a little at cards for his own amusement but he is not to play at marbles, or chuck farthing in the Piazza.
Mr Lely, I desire you would use all your skill to paint my picture freely like me, and not flatter me at all but remark all these roughnesses, pimples, warts and everything as you see me, otherwise I will never pay a farthing for it
The world is an old woman, and mistakes any gilt farthing for a gold coin whereby being often cheated, she will thenceforth trust nothing but the common copper
Virtue knows to a farthing what it has lost by not having been vice.
Beef also was difficult to be procured and exceedingly poor; the price nearly sixpence farthing per pound.
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