The magistrates soon began to suspect that themint master would have the best of the bargain.

My husband had this excellence, that he valued nothing of expense; and as his history, you may be sure, has very little weight in it, 'tis enough to tell you that in about two years and a quarter he broke, and was not so happy to get over into theMint, but got into a sponging-house, being arrested in an action too heavy from him to give bail to, so he sent for me to come to him.

Sage and thyme, andmint and two onions, and some parsley.

Whatever we paid for in Barkingham was paid for in the genuineMint coinage.

Its price had been a napoleon, and a napoleon, just then, was amint of money in her eyes.

If my start from Camelot could have been delayed a very few days I could have paid these people in beautiful new coins from our ownmint, and that would have pleased me; and them, too, not less.

for ye pay tithe ofmint, and anise, and cumin, and have omit- ted the weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith; these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone.

They have authority to appoint and receive ambassadors; to execute treaties and alliances already formed; to provide for the collection of duties on imports and exports; to regulate themint, with a saving to the provincial rights; to govern as sovereigns the dependent territories.

The war with Spain, many years' generousmint and watermelon crops, a few long-shot winners at the New Orleans race-track, and the brilliant banquets given by the Indiana and Kansas citizens who compose the North Carolina Society have made the South rather a "fad" in Manhattan.

It strikes off money faster than the dies of the RoyalMint itself.

There were rosy bleeding-hearts and great splendid crimson peonies; white, fragrant narcissi and thorny, sweet Scotch roses; pink and blue and white columbines and lilac-tinted Bouncing Bets; clumps of southernwood and ribbon grass andmint; purple Adam-and-Eve, daffodils, and masses of sweet clover white with its delicate, fragrant, feathery sprays; scarlet lightning that shot its fiery lances over prim white musk-flowers; a garden it was where sunshine lingered and bees hummed, and winds, beguiled into loitering, purred and rustled.

Says I to the exciseman, says I, I think you oft to favour us; I am sure we are very good friends to the government: and so we are for sartain, for we pay amint of money to 'um.