yellow-boys

Before the year is out I'll put an even hundred of those little yellow-boys into your hand.

Chapter 31 2010

Before the year is out I'll put an even hundred of those little yellow-boys into your hand.

Chapter 31 1908

The 'yellow gold' is a favourite phrase in certain forms of poetry; and 'yellow-boys' is a term of natural affection among sailors.

Prose Fancies (Second Series) Richard Le Gallienne 1906

Ever triumphant, with yellow-boys ever jingling in his pocket, Cartouche lived a life of luxurious merriment.

A Book of Scoundrels 1896

Ever triumphant, with yellow-boys ever jingling in his pocket, Cartouche lived a life of luxurious merriment.

A Book of Scoundrels Charles Whibley 1894

Dropping his voice to a cautious low tone, he continued, 'She's all there -- a round ten thousand dollars in yellow-boys; now this is my little idea: What I don't know about raising cattle, ain't worth knowing.

Life on the Mississippi Mark Twain 1872

Dropping his voice to a cautious low tone, he continued, 'She's all there -- a round ten thousand dollars in yellow-boys; now this is my little idea: What I don't know about raising cattle, ain't worth knowing.

Life on the Mississippi 1870

Oh, the sorry lot his who hath yellow-boys none, * Though his genius and virtues shine bright as the sun!

Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855

Mrs. Rowe, I'm not here for a couple of yellow-boys.

The Cockaynes in Paris Or 'Gone abroad' W. Blanchard Jerrold 1855

The delight of picking up the money -- the bright, shining yellow-boys -- and sweeping 'em into one's pocket!

The Old Curiosity Shop Charles Dickens 1841