How To Use Groat In A Sentence
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Material possessions and the means of measuring them by reference to groats, shillings or florins were forbidden in the Holy Parish.
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* Robert Greene, A groatsworth of Wit bought with a million of repentance.
English Literature for Boys and Girls
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Hermione, &c. &c. &c. were brought up on baked flour, groat-gruel, rusks, tops and bottoms, or revalenta food!
The Fairy Godmothers and Other Tales
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We didn't save the groat, the guinea or the farthing, and thrive without them.
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Why, look ye," said the latter, as the coin jingled in his bag, "I was ever held in good repute as a guide, and can make my way blindfold over the bogs and mosses hereabout; and I would pilot thee to the place yonder, if my fealty to the prior -- that is -- if -- I mean -- though I was never a groat the richer for his bounty; yet he may not like strangers to pry into his garners and store-houses, especially in these evil times, when every cur begins to yelp at the heels of our bountiful mother; and every beast to bray out its reproaches at her great wealth and possessions.
Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1 (of 2)
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Ay -- an Edward shovelboard [Note 5], and a new shilling o 'King James, and three groats o' Queen Bess -- that's not fairy silver, I 'count.
It Might Have Been The Story of the Gunpowder Plot
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We thanked our formidable-looking friend for her company and, presenting her with a John o 'Groat's buckie, bade her farewell.
From John O'Groats to Land's End
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Sprinkling the starter diet or a small quantity of oat groats on the mat close to the feeder allows the pigs to become acquainted with the feeder.
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Into it he pushed five fourpenny pieces, then called groats, and very commonly current.
All's Well Alice's Victory
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To the Abbey not a groatsworth of damage will I do.
The Lay of the Cid
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She alternates amaranth, brown rice, buckwheat groats, kamut, and millet.
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Certain Council regulations provided that production refunds should be payable for maize starch, but that they should be abolished in the case of maize groats and meal, which were used in the production of beer.
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I 'm thinkin'," returned Joseph, the more easily nettled that his horizon also was full of trouble, "your word upo 'the maitter winna gang sae far 's John o' Groat's.
Malcolm
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So did probation/social serve … didnt get a groat for that … on February 4, 2010 at 1: 03 pm Howard
The Truth Behind The £100 Phonecalls « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
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He would horsewhip a fellow one day with his own royal hand, and then fling him an handful of silver groats, with his own broad face on them, to 'noint the sore withal.
Kenilworth
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The 29 cyclists joined Keighley & District Travel's three busmen, who are cycling from John O'Groats to Land's End, on the five-mile challenge to race the train between Keighley and Oxenhope stations on Sunday.
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I can't remember exactly how much I was paid, probably no more than a groat - but I do remember I got free sherbet dips!
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Then they gave him a groat, which he put in his pocket; a crust of bread, which he ate; and a full bowl of ale, which he drank off at a draught.
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Coast starts from the famous landmark of John O'Groats - the most north-easterly point of the British mainland.
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He would horsewhip a fellow one day with his own royal hand, and then fling him an handful of silver groats, with his own broad face on them, to ‘noint the sore withal.”
Kenilworth
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The school offered classes on lithography, etching, drypoint, mezzotint and wood engraving until the Groat Depression forced it to close its doors after only a year.
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Mine is in weight two groates, a halfe pennie less of silver, which commeth to twelve sols and one liard.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 563, August 25, 1832
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Intact seeds with the hull removed are called groats.
On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen
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Last year, she cycled over 1,300 miles from John O'Groats to Land's End on a tandem bicycle with her brother, Luke.
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Since the nego was a unit of English currency worth about three to the farthing, we can determine that the seller is asking for roughly two groat, one quarter ryal, and ha'penny, which in modern-day US$ is approximately sixteen cents.
Passing Judgment: Platitudes, Pictures, and Patches
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In its whole grain form, buckwheat is sold as groats, which are greenish-tan in color, or as "kasha," which are groats that have been roasted before packaging.
Courierpress.com Stories
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With its medieval history, Lacock and its Abbey may have leased in lugs long before the demise of the groat in the 17th century, although the groat was deemed to be worth four pennies.
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Sprinkling the starter diet or a small quantity of oat groats on the mat close to the feeder allows the pigs to become acquainted with the feeder.
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To repeat a word so much infests a coil or troll a mete or fender a groat or inner fey a flick or tremble hone east tea where I touched yr shoulder spoke into the bone
Sarah Dowling reads Erin Moure
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But if nothing else he gave Chris McGroaty something to think about, forcing him into more of a defensive full-back role and nullifying the threat he had posed down the flank in the first half.
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And Salabaetto being come to see her one evening, she greeted him gaily and gamesomely, and fell a kissing and hugging him, and made as if she were so afire for love of him that she was like to die thereof in his arms; and offered to give him two most goodly silver cups that she had, which Salabaetto would not accept, having already had from her (taking one time with another) fully thirty florins of gold, while he had not been able to induce her to touch so much as a groat of his money.
The Decameron, Volume II
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I particularly got a kick out of him working the word "groatsworth" into the narrative, I can only imagine how small a portion of the audience gets that reference.
Shakespeare Geek
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What better man will speer your price? or think ye that I've groats laid by to buy a puggy or a puss baudrons for my maiden lady?
Girlhood and Womanhood The Story of some Fortunes and Misfortunes
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Material possessions and the means of measuring them by reference to groats, shillings or florins were forbidden in the Holy Parish.
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(as witness Colonel Towneley, Mr. Dawson, and many more unfortunate gentlemen on Kennington Common), to say nothing of the burning alive of women for petty treason, -- and to kill a husband or coin a groat were alike Treasonable, -- the Scourging of the same wretched creatures in
The Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous, Vol. 1 of 3 Who was a sailor, a soldier, a merchant, a spy, a slave among the moors...
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Then one day a little tentacle of the octopus, just to amuse itself, ingurgitated Dawe's capital, and he moved to the Gramercy Park neighborhood where one, for a few groats per week, may sit upon one's trunk under eight-branched chandeliers and opposite Carrara marble mantels and watch the mice play upon the floor.
Strictly business: more stories of the four million
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Eating your groatsworth of _mou en civet_, fleshpots of Egypt, elbowed by belching cabmen.
Ulysses
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And then she told that she was born in a farmhouse like that on the hill, and would like to know if they roasted groats and played at shovelboard there still; and ended by showing them her little silver tankard, which her godfather the jolly miller had given her, and out of which her elder sister, who had never taken kindly to tea, had drunk her ale and her aniseed water.
Girlhood and Womanhood The Story of some Fortunes and Misfortunes
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Ranging unstoppably across disciplines and topics, Fisher here sends up the "earnest addicts of stone-ground, hand-trampled, nature-cured and inevitably mildewed and weevilly buckwheat groats," a passage found in the chapter "J is for Juvenile dining.
The Romantical She
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In 1377, everyone over the age of 14 and not exempt had to pay a groat (2p) to the Crown.
The Volokh Conspiracy » More on the Chances Courts Would Strike Down the Individual Mandate
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He had a good groatsworth of wit, Stephen said, and no truant memory.
Ulysses
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Dietitian says: A groat is the full oat kernel before it's smashed flat to make oatmeal.
The Seattle Times
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The other of one that got a way of coyning money as good and passable and large as the true money is, and yet saved fifty per cent. to himself, which was by getting moulds made to stamp groats like old groats, which is done so well, and I did beg two of them which
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete
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-- He had a good groatsworth of wit, Stephen said, and no truant memory.
Ulysses
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Soba may be the ultimate Japanese noodle: moistly crunchy groats temporarily transformed, as if by magic, into pasta; fragile, earthy strands of buckwheat that cohere just long enough to travel on chopsticks to your mouth.
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Coast starts from the famous landmark of John O'Groats - the most north-easterly point of the British mainland.
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Edward I carried out a grand recoinage in 1279-80, minting new coins, silver halfpennies and farthings, to remove the need to cut, and a fourpence groat, which was not at first successful.
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From John o 'Groat's to the Land's End a cry was raised of _The bill, the whole bill, and nothing but the bill_.
The Political History of England - Vol XI From Addington's Administration to the close of William IV.'s Reign (1801-1837)
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One man who has a politically neutral perspective, is Charles Groat, who teaches at the University of Texas and served as director of the U.
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Last year, she cycled over 1,300 miles from John O'Groats to Land's End on a tandem bicycle with her brother.
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One cup of groats has 6 grams of fiber and is also rich in copper, niacin, folate, iron, magnesium, manganese, phosphorus and zinc.
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[9] A groat is a small coin worth four British pennies.
Letter from Robert Carter to John Pemberton, September 15, 1727
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A halfpenny was of course half a penny; a groat was worth fourpence; and a sixpence (popularly called a ‘tester’) was worth six pennies, or 6 d.
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-- All this king's coins are very rare, except the groat, which is less rare than the others, some groats having lately been discovered.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 569, October 6, 1832
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COOK NOTE: Buckwheat, also called groats or kasha, is a member of the grass family, not a part of wheat.
Make It Easy Make It Light
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(I am sure that both Sigurd and Hugh are now laughing and wondering just kind of groat clusters I have been smoking.)
I am not scared of.... Hugh :)
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The town of Wick is just a few miles south of John O'Groats.
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I bet Edward III's subjects thought that the silver groat was a fine coin too but I haven't seen many of those around recently.
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I'm afraid your ignorance of Skye, John O'Groats, Orkney and Shetland is matched by mine of Argyll so not sure what will happen down there.
Highlands and Islands Region
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In the four years since her diagnosis Jane has, among other notable athletic endeavours, cycled from Land's End to John O'Groats, completed the Half Ironman triathlon and numerous marathons and half-marathons, raising more £600,000.
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Though the groats had been well covered with gravy, I ate without tasting their flavor.
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In 1377, everyone over the age of 14 and not exempt had to pay a groat 2p to the Crown.
The Volokh Conspiracy » More on the Chances Courts Would Strike Down the Individual Mandate
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There is now not a sign of merriment from the Land's End to John o' Groats; nor a merryman to be found, but in some miserable pretence at Bartholomew Fair.
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Surrey Street Market has been at the heart of Croydon's daily life for more than 700 years, with cries of ‘who'll give me a pound, penny or groat?’
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Troubadours and minstrels used to be homeless buskers, driven from city to city (by baying mobs I hope) with the odd groat and a good bumming from Richard I being their only reward.
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Three busmen, who are cycling from John O’ Groats to Land's End, have launched an interactive map on the eve of their marathon effort.
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The Groattie Hoose, also known as Gow's Folly, was built in 1730 using ballast from Pirate Gow's ship, the Revenge.
