"Tenner" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the trimmings. The trimmings are mostly concerned with art bargain-hunting, and are excellent fun. Most of us have the treasure-trove instinct sufficiently developed to like reading about a young man who picks up Gainsboroughs for a tenner, or unearths lost masterpieces of TURNER on a clue supplied by an old letter. The young man in question was Hugh Limner, and in his off moments he fulfilled perfunctorily the duties of hero of the story. But I can't help thinking that Mr. M. MCD. BODKIN, his creator, ...
— Punch or the London Charivari, September 9, 1914 • Various
... said Cripps, contemptuously, "wouldn't pay not the interest. You'll have to make it a tenner, young gentleman." ...
— The Fifth Form at Saint Dominic's - A School Story • Talbot Baines Reed
... the unresisting child he took a gold watch and three sovereigns. These he said he would put in a safe place for him, till he was going home again. He expected to get at least a tenner ready money for bringing Algy back, and hoped that he might be allowed to keep the ...
— Three Elephant Power • Andrew Barton 'Banjo' Paterson
... was going on in his stock, and consequently came forward to scrutinize the mysterious purchaser. I heard a voice muttering "Confound that old fellow!" as the dutiful daughter modestly gave place to papa; a Bank of England tenner passed from my friend's smallclothes to the cutler's small till, and a half-crown vice versa. When we got to the door it was pitch dark; and thus ended our lionizing of the ...
— Lands of the Slave and the Free - Cuba, The United States, and Canada • Henry A. Murray
... be short of money, maybe. Look, what's this? A tenner? Well, there's a piece for the pocket; go ...
— O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1920 • Various |
