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Examples
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'Why you don't think, sir, I meant that half a guinea's a trifle?
Camilla 2008
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It is clear that William was British, he had guinea's in his pocket.
The WELL: Peggy-O Traditional 2007
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I've had half a guinea's worth already, Sean laughed.
When the Lion Feeds Smith, Wilbur 1964
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It has been so often repeated that: "The rank is but the guinea's stamp," and that "A man's a man for a 'that," that all the ash-ladies and wash-ladies of the land have hastily concluded that the term "lady" stands for nothing substantial.
Girls and Women Harriet E. (AKA E. Chester} Paine
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Exterior Lodge: the Rank, however, in his opinion, was but the guinea's stamp.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 31, October, 1873 Various
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Anyhow, I shan't allow you to destroy your guinea's worth.
April's Lady A Novel Margaret Wolfe Hungerford
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Crispus Attucks, the lineaments of whose personality have been chiseled in marble and will stand a monument upon Boston Common, to show a "Man's a man for a 'that and a' that," and that the rank is but the guinea's stamp.
Twentieth Century Negro Literature Or, A Cyclopedia of Thought on the Vital Topics Relating to the American Negro Daniel Wallace [Editor] Culp
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"The rank is but the guinea's stamp; a spade's a spade, for all that."
Recollections and reflections : an auto of half a century and more, 1906
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"Of course not," she assented, "'the rank is but the guinea's stamp,' I know -- but I wasn't meaning to be married for quite a time yet, anyway, -- it's such fun just being engaged."
The Spenders A Tale of the Third Generation Harry Leon Wilson 1903
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"If they put down a guinea on the counter -- which they do if they 'ave been drinkin' very 'eavy -- I give them what I think is about a guinea's worth and take the money."
Rodney Stone Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1896
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