monish
Example Sentences
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Mr Newland—it was all lent in monish, not in goods; you will not make me lose so much as dat?”
From Japhet in Search of a Father by Frederick Marryat
Somebody has taken te monish, and, py Cot!
From The Trials of the Soldier's Wife A Tale of the Second American Revolution by Alex St. Clair Abrams
Me lack-a de monish pour de feene—very feene—French knack, de feene gold button, de brave bugla lace, a de feene gold ring-a.
From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 6 by William Carew Hazlitt
Vel, den, I have de monish in my pocket.
From Japhet, in Search of a Father by Frederick Marryat
"Nix, Doctor; I pays no monish till I knows where am I sick," and she abruptly left the room.
From Twenty Years of Hus'ling by W. W. (William Wallace) Denslow
