Farthing

(noun.) a former British bronze coin worth a quarter of a penny.

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• The times are as tight as can be; everybody is being ruined; and I don't believe Lydgate has got a farthing. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• Mr. Ablewhite, senior, refused to lend his son a farthing. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• If I didn't support a aged pairint, and a lovely sister,'--here the waiter was greatly agitated--'I wouldn't take a farthing. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• And yet they hang about my uncle like vultures, and are afraid of a farthing going away from their side of the family. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• Since that imprudent transaction, they have received from it--not one farthing! 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• Not lost,' said Jingle hastily, 'Pay it all--stick to business--cash up--every farthing. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• Yet of course, her cynicism knew well enough that, in a world where spurious coin was current, a bad sovereign was better than a bad farthing. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• No, said her father; Wickham's a fool if he takes her with a farthing less than ten thousand pounds. 简·奥斯汀. 傲慢与偏见.
• There was something quite diabolical in not leaving him a farthing after all. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• Not a farthing more,' was the firm reply of Mr. Limbkins. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
• I believe Mrs. Bardell specially said, however,' observed Fogg, glancing at Dodson, 'that she would not compromise for a farthing less. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• She shall never leave me, until we are ruined utterly ourselves, which does not seem far off, or until I can pay her the utmost farthing. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• She hasn't a farthing. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• Not a copper farthing's worth of it! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
• That is to say, not one farthing of the twenty thousand pounds was to go to Miss Halcombe, or to any other relative or friend of Lady Glyde's. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• Two half-pence is all the same, and four farthings is received with joy. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
• Take care of your farthings, old Tinker, and your guineas will come quite nat'ral. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• You may be sure it's Sir Pitt Crawley, young woman, said Mrs. Tinker, surlily; because he looks to his farthings. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.

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