hundred-guinea

As the humble seven-and-sixpenny "Waterbury" requires its springs and levers equally with the hundred-guinea "repeater," so the twenty minutes 'sermon, to be effective, must have a fixed plan and definite sequence as well as the more ambitious effort.

The Young Priest's Keepsake Michael Phelan

He jerked his head erect to meet his judges 'eyes, but the judges in their panoply of blue and gold were veiled in a mist which obscured the whole cabin, so that nothing was visible to Hornblower's eyes save for one little space in the centre — the cleared area in the middle of the table before the President's seat, where lay his sword, the hundred-guinea sword presented by the Patriotic Fund.

Flying Colours Forester, C. S. 1938

Somebody was buckling the hundred-guinea sword to his waist; someone else was patting his shoulder.

Flying Colours Forester, C. S. 1938

"Thy father gave me this," he told him, producing a gold watch and chain of the hundred-guinea kind that nowadays are only found among the heirlooms.

Rung Ho Mundy, Talbot, 1879-1940 1914

St. Theresa, for instance, saw a clearer glory by such means, than your Sir Moses Montefiore through his hundred-guinea telescope.

The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett Browning, Robert, 1812-1889 1898

If I could eat a hundred-guinea dinner myself every night, and enjoy it four hundred times as much as I used to enjoy a five-shilling dinner, there would be some sense in it.

Second Thoughts of an Idle Fellow 1893

The verger looked at the watch too; it was a hundred-guinea chronometer,

Henry Dunbar A Novel 1875

This was enough for her, as it is enough for the lady that she is going to be put into a hundred-guinea ball gown.

Bimbi 1839-1908 Ouida 1873

I'll give you a hundred-guinea brooch; — I will, indeed.

The Eustace Diamonds Trollope, Anthony, 1815-1882 1872

The Royal Agricultural Society offered last year a hundred-guinea prize for the best managed farm in the central districts of England.

Decade Speech: On The Progress Of Education And Industrial Avocations For Women 1870