"Old money" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... let me explain to you just what my mother means. This house is not for sale," he said, in positive tones that made the old money-lender stare ...
— Dick the Bank Boy - Or, A Missing Fortune • Frank V. Webster
... and sixpences. Plump Mrs. Sewall bore down hard upon her side of the scales, but still the servants shovelled in the bright, fresh pine-tree shillings, until Mrs. Sewall began to rise. Then the mintmaster ordered them to forbear. 'There, you Sewall,' said the magnanimous old money maker, 'take these shillings for my daughter's portion. Use her kindly, and thank Heaven for her; for it is not every wife that is worth her weight in silver.' And Master Sewell took Mistress Sewall and thirty thousand pounds (not avoirdupois, ...
— The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No. 6, December 1864 - Devoted To Literature And National Policy • Various
... the old farmer made China Aster take part of his loan in three old dried-up cows and one lame horse, not improved by the glanders. These were thrown in at a pretty high figure, the old money-lender having a singular prejudice in regard to the high value of any sort of stock raised on his farm. With a great deal of difficulty, and at more loss, China Aster disposed of his cattle at public auction, no private purchaser ...
— The Confidence-Man • Herman Melville
... that I wish to talk about state economies with that old money-sack, or to listen to boastings of deeds he never did in war from a half-bred ...
— Moon of Israel • H. Rider Haggard |
