extra money
Example Sentences
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She remembers how the lido custodian both took the entry money and worked as the lifeguard, using a stick with a ring on in it to teach people how to swim.
From BBC • Aug. 28, 2023
In a just-try-not-to-cry scene at the center of the movie, Mrs. Brown takes Velvet up to the attic to fetch the entry money for the race.
From Slate • Apr. 11, 2014
John Palmer is put in seisin of his father's tenement and gives the lord 53s.4d. as entry money.
From Our Legal Heritage June 2011 (Sixth) Edition by Reilly, S. A.
Mabely is put in seisin of a farthing land which her mother held, and gives the lord 33s.4d. for entry money.
From Our Legal Heritage, 5th Ed. by Reilly, S. A.
After that, with his sulks and swerves, Dread of the crowd and fits of nerves, Like a wastrel bee who makes no honey He had hardly earned his entry money.
From Right Royal by Masefield, John
