1 He rings every coin to find a counterfeit.
2 But, alas, it was again the case of the honest merchant, who finds that the genuine and unadulterated article is driven to the wall by the artistic counterfeit.
3 At this favorable moment the counterfeit conjurers disappeared.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 25 4 A wretched man, being at the end of his resources, had coined counterfeit money, out of love for a woman, and for the child which he had had by her.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV—WORKS CORRESPONDING TO WORDS 5 That the prioress had told him to bring his brother on the following evening, after the counterfeit interment in the cemetery.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER IV—IN WHICH JEAN VALJEAN HAS QUITE THE AIR OF HAV... 6 "It may be counterfeit," said Athos.
7 Gatsby, his hands still in his pockets, was reclining against the mantelpiece in a strained counterfeit of perfect ease, even of boredom.
8 All the known incidents of their love were enlarged, distorted, touched up, and modified, till the original reality bore but a slight resemblance to the counterfeit presentation by surrounding tongues.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 6: 1 The Inevitable Movement Onward 9 'All of a shiver,' said Mr. Dick, counterfeiting that affection and making his teeth chatter.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContext Highlight In CHAPTER 17. SOMEBODY TURNS UP 10 The Mohican started on his feet, and shook his shaggy covering, as though the animal he counterfeited was about to make some desperate effort.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 26 11 This fellow Hayes had shod his horses with shoes which counterfeited the tracks of cows.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In V. THE ADVENTURE OF THE PRIORY SCHOOL 12 The counterfeits of the past assume false names, and gladly call themselves the future.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 6: CHAPTER XI—END OF THE PETIT-PICPUS 13 Sometimes the populace counterfeits fidelity to itself.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 10: CHAPTER II—THE ROOT OF THE MATTER 14 They were bandits, counterfeiters, poisoners, incendiaries, murderers, parricides.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER IX—CLOISTERED 15 Nothing can be more melancholy than these reprisals in painting, by a pack of cards, in the presence of stakes for the roasting of smugglers and of the cauldron for the boiling of counterfeiters.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER III—SLANG WHICH WEEPS AND SLANG WHICH LAUGHS