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• A line engraving of the portrait was published in England the year after at a guinea, and widely purchased, the profit going to the mission. —  Life of William Carey
• Hogg bought Sirrah of a drover for a guinea, observing, notwithstanding his dejected and forlorn appearance, a sort of sullen intelligence in his countenance. —  Stories of Animal Sagacity
• The name 'Collins' is almost established as the description of a letter of thanks after a visit; and we have heard of a highly intelligent family among whom a guinea is always alluded to as 'something considerable' in memory of the sum believed (on the authority of the Memoir_) to have been given to William Price by Aunt Norris. —  Jane Austen, Her Life and Letters A Family Record
• Again I got my guinea, and again I was asked to appear on the following night, and at the end of that week, the defaulting member of the staff not having again put in an appearance, I was formally enrolled for the rest of the session. —  Recollections With Photogravure Portrait of the Author and a number of Original Letters, of which one by George Meredith and another by Robert Louis Stevenson are reproduced in facsimile
• There are no guinea or five-guinea fees here. —  Travels in the Great Desert of Sahara, in the Years of 1845 and 1846

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