All 8 Uses of
sovereign
in
Bleak House
- It appeared to us that some of them must pass their whole lives in dealing out subscription-cards to the whole post-office directory— shilling cards, half-crown cards, half-sovereign cards, penny cards.†
Chpt 7-9
- "You don't expect anybody to believe this, about the lady and the sovereign, do you?" says the constable, eyeing him aside with ineffable disdain.†
Chpt 19-21 *
- Now, Jo's improbable story concerning the lady and the sovereign has awakened more or less the curiosity of all the company.†
Chpt 19-21
- Eight and six in half a sovereign, Polly, and eighteenpence out!†
Chpt 19-21
- When this young heathen now among us—who is now, my friends, asleep, the seal of indifference and perdition being set upon his eyelids; but do not wake him, for it is right that I should have to wrestle, and to combat and to struggle, and to conquer, for his sake—when this young hardened heathen told us a story of a cock, and of a bull, and of a lady, and of a sovereign, was THAT the Terewth?†
Chpt 25-27
- Doodle has found that he must throw himself upon the country, chiefly in the form of sovereigns and beer.†
Chpt 40-42
- Britannia being much occupied in pocketing Doodle in the form of sovereigns, and swallowing Doodle in the form of beer, and in swearing herself black in the face that she does neither— plainly to the advancement of her glory and morality—the London season comes to a sudden end, through all the Doodleites and Coodleites dispersing to assist Britannia in those religious exercises.†
Chpt 40-42
- Two sovereign!†
Chpt 40-42
Definition:
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(sovereign) of a person: a nation's ruler or head of state
of a political body: not controlled by outside forces