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Letter "P" » pence
«Take care of the pence, for the pounds will take care of themselves»
«And there were some that had indignation within themselves, and said, Why was this waste of the ointment made? / For it might have been sold for more than three hundred pence, and have been given to the poor. And they murmured against her.»
«There was a certain creditor which had two debtors: the one owed five hundred pence, and the other fifty.»
«Then saith one of his disciples, Judas Iscariot, Simon's son, which should betray him, / Why was not this ointment sold for three hundred pence, and given to the poor? / This he said, not that he cared for the poor; but because he was a thief, and had the bag, and bare what was put therein.»
Author: Bible
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betray, his disciples, judas, Judas Iscariot, ointment, One Penny, pence, Simon, therein, three hundred
«But the same servant went out, and found one of his fellowservants, which owed him an hundred pence: and he laid hands on him, and took him by the throat, saying, Pay me that thou owest.»
«A penny saved is two pence clear, A pin a day's a groat a year»
«AVERNUS, n. The lake by which the ancients entered the infernal regions. The fact that access to the infernal regions was obtained by a lake is believed by the learned Marcus Ansello Scrutator to have suggested the Christian rite of baptism by immersion. This, however, has been shown by Lactantius to be an error._Facilis descensus Averni,_ The poet remarks; and the sense Of it is that when down-hill I turn I Will get more of punches than pence. --Jehal Dai Lupe»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
ancients, Avernus, baptism, descensus, immersion, infernal, Lactantius, lake, pence, punches, rite
«''Write that down,'' the King said to the jury, and the jury eagerly wrote down all three dates on their slates, and then added them up, and reduced the answer to shillings and pence.»
Author: Lewis Carroll
(Logician, Mathematician, Novelist, Photographer)
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added, dates, eagerly, jury, pence, reduced, shilling, shillings, slate, slates, The Jury, the king, Three Kings
«I knew once a very covetous, sordid fellow [perhaps William Lowndes], who used to say, `Take care of the pence, for the pounds will take care of themselves.'»
Author: Lord Chesterfield
(Diplomat, Statesman, Wit)
| Keywords:
covetous, pence, pounds, sordid, William Lowndes
«For loss of time, / Although it grieved him sore, / Yet loss of pence, full well he knew, / Would trouble him much more.»
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