quarter-eagles

Updated: May 27, 2025

The sterner sex forced upon us pocket-knives new and jagged, combs, soap, slippers, boxes of matches, cigars by the dozen and the hundred, pipes to smoke shag and pipes to smoke Latakia, fruit, eggs, and sandwiches. One fellow got a new purse with ten bright quarter-eagles.

Various - The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 44, June, 1861 Creator