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  • Forty Guineas is just forty guineas better than nothing, don't forget that: and I must endeavour to help you until you can walk alone.

    Letter 323 2009

  • &c. I received Ten Guineas from the hand of my most zealous friend Sir C, which, with a handsome complimentary letter, came to his house for me, from H.R.H. the Duke of York. the letter I have now enclosed to Mr. Lofft; it will come back to your hand; send it to me again soon; don't deface it, &c.

    Letter 32 2009

  • The Guineas was a bang-out meeting, with big crowds, but even that doesn't seem to be as well attended any more.

    Britain's best-known bookie Barry Dennis quits after 40 years on track 2011

  • In May 2006, the Goldbergs auctioned a 1706 Queen Anne Five Guineas, which is NGC graded AU-58, for a reported $20,700.

    Queen of British Gold is a Star of The Millennia : Coin Collecting News 2008

  • The beach is excellent, pleasantly diversified with crags; and there is a small outlying mass of rock known as the Guineas or

    The Cornwall Coast

  • "There is no other three-year-old in the race, and I think the Guineas might be the hardest race to win on Super Saturday."

    AustralianIT.com.au | Top Stories 2010

  • 'They always say fifth in the Guineas is the ideal trial for the Derby and he wasn't far away in finishing sixth,' Kinane told Press Association Sport.

    RTÉ News 2010

  • "He's perfectly entitled to be there and I know the Guineas was a bit of a disaster for us, but that's gone now and the horse is in great form," said Burke.

    ireland.com Breaking News 2009

  • a tribe of negroes known as the Guineas, who would divulge any secret for a little whiskey or wheat bread; therefore I was afraid I would be betrayed.

    From log cabin to the pulpit, or, fifteen years in slavery, b. 1848 1913

  • "Guineas"; they served to increase the reputation and prestige of the company.

    The Journal of Negro History, Volume 4, 1919 Various

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