"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
... 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
... 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
... for a tenner the first time I ever saw him," drawled Mark to me, "and I coughed it up and have been coughing them up, whenever he's ...
— Marse Henry, Complete - An Autobiography • Henry Watterson
... is ridiculous," Crawshay interrupted. "Look here, you haven't any time to lose. Send to the engineer and let him give it to them straight down below. I'll give a tenner apiece to the stokers, if we get clear, and if my advice turns out wrong, I'll see you ...
— The Box with Broken Seals • E. Phillips Oppenheim |
