"Changer" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... again. Have you ever in your career as a city man stood outside a money-changer's and looked at the fine collection of genuine banknotes in the window? Supposing I told you that you could look at them and enjoy the sight of them, and nobody could do more?... No, my boy, to enjoy a thing properly you've got to own it. And anybody who says the contrary is ...
— Mr. Prohack • E. Arnold Bennett
... heard the news, of the bey's stupefaction when he was taken to look at his bust; and suddenly, at the thought that he was no longer a mere adventurer gorged with gold, arousing the senseless admiration of the vulgar like an enormous nugget in a money-changer's window, but that he was entitled to be looked upon as one of the chosen exponents of the national will, his good-natured, mobile face assumed an expression of ponderous gravity suited to the occasion, his mind was filled with plans for the future, ...
— The Nabob, Vol. 2 (of 2) • Alphonse Daudet
... through all that flat green expanse. A little shiver ran over her. She looked back, down the wide gravelled way, through the gate, where the gate-keeper sat, tipped back against the wall on his stool, to the shop of the money-changer's opposite. A boy leaned half across the polished wood counter and shook his fist in the face of the money-changer. "Thou thief!" he cried. "Give me my two cash!" Dong-Yung was reassured. Around her lay all the dear familiar things; ...
— O Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1919 • Various
... Les couches des montagnes a notre gauche, qui depuis la cite avoient constamment couru a l'est et monte au nord, paroissent changer a un quart de lieue du village de Chambaise, qui est a une lieue et un quart de Nux. Elles montent d'abord au sud-est, et peu plus loin droit au sud, tandis que l'autre cote de la vallee elles paroissent monter ...
— Theory of the Earth, Volume 2 (of 4) • James Hutton
... place, before us has come, agreeably to the citation served upon him, Joseph, called Leschalopier, a money-changer, living on the bridge at the sign of the Besant d'Or, who, after having pledged his Catholic faith to say no other thing than the truth, and that known to him, touching the process before the ecclesiastical tribunal, ...
— Droll Stories, Volume 2 • Honore de Balzac
... apartment, divided on one side by a massive wooden counter, surmounted by a partition pierced at intervals with pigeon-holes, as if for communication between persons on opposite sides of the division. It may have been a bank or money-changer's office. It is not, however, on account of the place itself, but of its contents, that I describe it. The floor was covered with the corpses of men, women, and children, mingled indiscriminately together, fugitives who had ...
— Under the Dragon Flag - My Experiences in the Chino-Japanese War • James Allan |
