And he was baith civil and just in his dealings; and if he thought his chapman had made a hard bargain, he wad gie him a luck-penny to the mends. ❋ Unknown (2005)
The horse soon found a purchaser, and while the two were inside drinking the luck-penny the wizard came along and saw the horse. ❋ Unknown (2003)
After a bad October Tryst, where my father had sixteen score of Aberdeenshire cattle, and when he lost £4 a-head upon every beast, Mr Geddes returned him £70 as a luck-penny upon a large lot he had bought from him. ❋ William M'Combie (N/A)
"Eight pounds five and ten shillings back for a luck-penny?" ❋ Brian Oswald Donn-Byrne (1908)
From behind the mound of mutton chops a buyer shoved a roll of dirty one-pound notes round the potato dish, and after due haggling received back one, according to the mystic Irish custom of "luck-penny". ❋ Martin Ross (1903)
On the sofa two farmers carried on a transaction in which the swap of a colt, boot money, and luck-penny were blended into one trackless maze of astuteness and arithmetic. ❋ Martin Ross (1903)
"I beg your pardon, miss," said the ostler, at her elbow, "would ye be willing to give twenty pounds for the mare, and he to give back a pound luck-penny?" ❋ Martin Ross (1903)
A peasant who has brought in a bullock to sell is offered 90 copper "uten" (as the rings are called) for it; but he loudly protests that this is robbery, and after a long argument he screws the merchant up to 111 "uten," with 8 more as a luck-penny, and the bargain is clinched. ❋ James Baikie (1898)
One of his customs is to filch a little gold from his mother and sister on the last day of Shrawan (July) and make it into a luck-penny. ❋ Robert Vane Russell (1894)
Now again he was confused, being sure that this beast had never been given back as a luck-penny, since it would have fetched more than the fifty angels on the market; moreover, it was harnessed with a woman's saddle and bridle of the most beautifully worked red Cordova leather, to which were attached a silver bit and stirrup. ❋ Henry Rider Haggard (1890)
Perhaps they were a present, and she had given a luck-penny for them, lest they should cut love. ❋ Unknown (1869)
Passing through the door he found in its recess a sapper and a cook exchanging the luck-penny of love. ❋ Henry Murger (1841)
All the savings of a month, the hoarded halfpence, the new farthings, the very luck-penny, go off in fumo on that night. ❋ Mary Russell Mitford (1821)
There's a luck-penny for the child to begin with, 'added he, throwing the child a penny. ❋ Maria Edgeworth (1808)
I'll pay her the day, but you maun mind the luck-penny; there's muckle need for 't' -- or something to that purpose. ❋ James Hogg (1802)
a stated part of the price by way of a blessing, or a "luck-penny" as it would be called in England. ❋ William Henry Giles Kingston (1847)
But, if thou canst not, then thou goest hence from Straumey with never a luck-penny in thy purse, and never a sup to stay thy stomach with. " ❋ Henry Rider Haggard (1890)
