'What amount of
small change, Missis,' he said, with an abstracted air, after a little meditation, 'might you call a morsel of money?'
He had little of the
small change of conversation, and his stock of ready-made formulas and phrases was the scantiest.
A few of the worshippers belonged to families hard by, who had got permission to attend, and who brought in various choice scraps of information, about the sayings and doings at the house and on the place, which circulated as freely as the same sort of
small change does in higher circles.
But let us put our hands in our trousers pockets, and let there be some
small change in the right-hand one and a bunch of keys in the left, and we will face a female post-office clerk.
But even a
small change in the disposition of the weight will produce violent changes in the behaviour of a coracle.
"If there be troutlets enough," said Don Quixote, "they will be the same thing as a trout; for it is all one to me whether I am given eight reals in
small change or a piece of eight; moreover, it may be that these troutlets are like veal, which is better than beef, or kid, which is better than goat.
It was almost like a lot of boys scramblin' on the sidewalk for a handful of
small change. Not that some didn't have far-seein'.
I thought of it all the more, too, when the bouman brought out a green purse with four guineas in gold, and the best part of another in
small change. True, it was more than I had.
"I'll bet you a horn of brandy," said the first, "that the chap has either a pocket-book, or a snug little hoard of
small change, stowed away amongst his shirts.
He looked it out from a handful of
small change, folded it in some crumpled paper, and gave it to me.
He took off his hat, and moved mechanically toward the stand; and there he found a
small change that was a great one to him.
The
small change was made, we stepped on board, and the ropes were cast off.