"Coin" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... invent tergiversations or to answer 'Yes, we have?' Accordingly in such circumstances that 'No' which you utter [see Card. Pallav. lib. iii. c. xi. n. 23, de Fide, Spe, etc.] remains deprived of its proper meaning, and is like a piece of coin, from which by the command of the government the current value has been withdrawn, so that by using it you become in no sense ...
— Apologia pro Vita Sua • John Henry Newman
... of service due from every man to his country, proportioned to the bounties which nature and fortune have measured to him. Counters will pay this from the poor of spirit; but from you, my friend, coin was due. There is no bankrupt-law in heaven, by which you may get off with shillings in the pound; with rendering to a single State what you owed to the whole confederacy. I think it was by the Roman law that a father was denied sepulture, unless his son would pay his debts. Happy for you ...
— Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson - Volume I • Thomas Jefferson
... converted his master and the whole family to the faith, and induced him to quit the stage, he was made free by him, but could not be {639} prevailed upon to keep for his own use, or even to distribute to the poor, the twenty pieces of coin he had received as the price of his liberty. Soon after this he sold himself a second time, to relieve a distressed widow. Having spent some time with his new master, in recompense of signal spiritual services, ...
— The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints - January, February, March • Alban Butler
... before the verb was reached. He tossed the coin to the tailor, and speedily returned to the waiting room where he signaled Van ...
— The Voice on the Wire • Eustace Hale Ball
... hands on another, To coin his labor and sweat, He goes in pawn to his victim For ...
— Women Wage-Earners - Their Past, Their Present, and Their Future • Helen Campbell
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