hard coin

They were paid for their true Christian charity in a very hard coin, indeed.

But he's of an age to apprentice out, and that takes hard coin.

"I did hear Quinn sailed 'cause he was desperate for a little hard coin."

My friends can be short-tempered when the talk turns to hard coin."

Two wandering minstrels would never offer to pay for a room in hard coin, and it was too late now to change their story.

Pay it over, every terce in cold hard coin!

"I'd give a thousand dollars, hard coin, to get my hands on them Wagners.

"Now cravens like you want hard coin for a bite of wormy apple."

No, the corn must be taken to market in Salem; that was the closest place where hard coin might be obtained.

He paid in hard coin.

Four round, hard coins he laid on the old man's desk and stepped outside, where Shorhun's freckled son lounged by his horse.

I want to know how much out of the military budget can be spared in hard coin and how much in goods.

Conan's recompense for his arduous Turanian service to date had been many empty words of honor and precious little hard coin.

"Twenty-six men went with a wagon of hides-there was no hard coin anymore by then, o' course, and 'twas the best they could do.

For ten years these old people, over a thousand of them, made napkins and drew hard coin from Kyla's Treasury for their work.

"I don't doubt your wealth, Wayne, after you paid me in hard coin a few days ago instead of bartering with me, as most buccaneers would.

No pirate attack, just a few galleys coming out to sniff their trail off the Sea Islands, so she had not even earned any hard coin.

When Clark arrived with Continental promissary notes of paper, Vigo exchanged them evenly for hard coin.

Where hard coin rested on the security of the past, the expense of mining and refining the precious metals, paper money was a credit against the future.

The better condottas of Freefighters commenced to trickle away to seek the employ of lords who paid in hard coin rather than empty promises.

He leaned forward at last, and stretched forth his hand; but instead of the hard coin with the familiar resisting outline, his fingers encountered soft warm curls.

Each felt that he must see his treasure separate with the eye of flesh, handle it in the hard coin, mark it for his own, and stand forth to himself the approved owner.

This time of year, fortunately, they had the compound pretty much to themselves, and Jill, rather to Nevyn's surprise, had an amazing amount of hard coin to give the innkeep to ensure that they would continue to do so.

He scratched a finger on the worn tabletop, dented with swords and pistols hastily cast down, with bags of hard coin and stranger currencies, stained with drinks slopped in good cheer, rarely, but sometimes, spilled in anger.

Exposure to a Schwarzkopf or a Segovia offers them, perhaps more forcefully than ever before in their musical experience, a foretaste of what it means to be an artist and a hint of what price must be paid in the hard coin of discipline.