nine-thousand-dollar

Updated: April 30, 2025

"Oh, you be, be you?" said the man. "Then pray my son back to me! Pray back a nine-thousand-dollar boat an' a thousand quintal of fish. If you'd left me alone my widow could ha' gone on to the Provident an' worked fer her board, an' never known an' never known. Now I'll hev to tell her." "There ain't nothin' to say," said Disko. "Better lie down a piece, Jason Olley."

Rudyard Kipling - Captains Courageous

Incidentally, he had a swell cousin on Fifth Avenue who had invited the boss and his wife to dinner, by reason of which the soreheads who lost out went round asking what kind of a note it was when a silk-stocking crook could buy a nine-thousand-dollar job for a fifty-dollar dinner. Anyhow, he was clean and clean-looking, kindly, humorous and wise above his years which were thirty-one.

Arthur Cheney Train - By Advice of Counsel