"Gelt" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... crumenal^, fiscal, financial, sumptuary, numismatic, numismatical^; sterling; nummary^. Phr. barbarus ipse placet dummodo sit dives [Lat.] [Ovid]; but the jingling of the guinea helps the hurt that honor feels [Tennyson]; Gelt regiert die Welt [G.], money rules the world, money makes the world go round; nervos belli pecuniam infinitam [Lat.] [Cicero]; redet Geld so schweigt die Welt [G.]; money is the mother's milk of politics [Tip ...
— Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases: Body • Roget
... Ent, Dr. Wren, and many others; and by and by the musique, that is to say, Signor Vincentio, who is the master-composer, and six more, whereof two eunuches, so tall, that Sir T. Harvey said well that he believes they do grow large by being gelt as our oxen do, and one woman very well dressed and handsome enough, but would not be kissed, as Mr. Killigrew, who brought the company in, did acquaint us. They sent two harpsicons before; and by and by, after tuning them, they begun; and, I confess, very good musique ...
— Diary of Samuel Pepys, Complete • Samuel Pepys
... py shoodshment und glearly ascertained, Dat Breitmann hafe lossed money py a valse und schwindlin' friendt- So dey roon it droo de newsbapers, und shbeech to make pegan, Dat Breitmann shtole de gelt himself und rop ...
— The Breitmann Ballads • Charles G. Leland |
