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Savages who go naked, with their noddles dressed like a shuttlecock, with a club in their paws, are less of brutes than those bachelors of arts! The four-penny monkeys! And they set up for judges! Those creatures deliberate and ratiocinate! The end of the world is come! This is plainly the end of this miserable terraqueous globe! A final hiccough was required, and France has emitted it.
Take as many gallons of water as you please, and to every gallon of water put in a pound of four-penny sugar, boil it for half an hour and skim it all the time; when it is about blood warm put to it about three or four spoonfuls of light yeast, let it work in the tub a night and a day, put it into your vessel, close up the top with a paper, and set it as near the fire as you have convenience, and in two or three days it will be good vinegar.
Altered by poetical license from 'bran. Chaucer, in one instance, spells it 'bren, to rhyme with men. Ed. This evidently refers to a coin value four-penny half-penny, and, like a cracked groat, not so much prized as good coin.
Often enough when the first of the month came round and I applied to him for my wage, he would only blow through his nose at me and stare me down, but before the week was out he was sure to think better of it, bring me my four-penny piece, and repeat his orders to look out for "the seafaring man with one leg." How that personage haunted my dreams, I need scarcely tell you.
"'Well, I don't exactly know, said Brown; being uncertain whether it was a three-penny or four-penny bit under his tobacco jar. 'But, give me your daughter, and I promise she shall have endless gold. "'Come, don't exaggerate, Brown," said the tickled Twill. "'Scarcely in my case, said Brown; 'as be we ever so extravagant, we should never be able to set through it."
All this same time they will not let me be seeing him, nor yet him write; and we wait upon the King's street to catch him; and now we give him his snuff as he goes by, and now something else. And here is this son of trouble, Neil, son of Duncan, has lost my four-penny piece that was to buy that snuff, and James More must go wanting, and will think his daughter has forgotten him."
Inscription very recently added; leather, American tanned; brass, Birmingham; stitching, by the Blake shoe and harness machine; wizard, probably born in Tottenham Court Road, and his knowledge of Persia confined to Persian powder in four-penny tins." He laid the belt aside, and walked slowly round the room, inspecting its contents before turning his attention to the portmanteau.
Not quite a sixpence, but the next thing to it a four-penny piece! In one second it was in her cold, little red and blue hand. "Oh!" she gasped. "It is true!" And then, if you will believe me, she looked straight before her at the shop directly facing her.
Inscription very recently added; leather, American tanned; brass, Birmingham; stitching, by the Blake shoe and harness machine; wizard probably born in Tottenham Court Road, and his knowledge of Persia confined to Persian powder in four-penny tins." He laid the belt aside, and walked slowly round the room, inspecting its contents before turning his attention to the portmanteau.
"Oh! if you want to have a South Kensington drawing-room," said Letty, indignantly, "with four-penny muslin curtains and art pots, you can do that for nothing. But I'd rather go back to horsehair and a mahogany table in the middle at once!" "You needn't wear 'greenery-yallery' gowns, you know." said George, laughing; "that's the one unpardonable thing.
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