"Fiver" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... give you a check though—Yes, I will. I'll give you an uncrossed check, and then you can get it at the bank here, quite close by.... You'd better not have all the money on you; you had better open a small account in the post-office and draw it out a fiver at a time. That won't involve references, as a bank account would—and all that sort of thing. The money will last longer, and—it won't ...
— Ann Veronica • H. G. Wells
... saddest-looking men I had seen for years. I used to know him well in the old days when we were journalists together. I asked him, in a sympathetic tone, how things were going with him. I expected his response would be a flood of tears, and that in the end I should have to fork out a fiver. To my astonishment, his answer was that things were going exceedingly well with him. I did not want ...
— Idle Ideas in 1905 • Jerome K. Jerome
... forty cents shy of a fiver. Well, if necessary, I'll make that up. I'm going to risk ten ...
— Rival Pitchers of Oakdale • Morgan Scott
... the dibbs—a homely fiver. How, and why, do you continue to exist? I do so ill, but for a variety of reasons. First, I wait an angel to come down and trouble the waters; second, more angels; third—well, more angels. The waters ...
— The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 23 (of 25) • Robert Louis Stevenson
... with a short laugh, "I meant to give you a fiver, but it don't make much odds. Only see that you buy some ...
— A Millionaire of Yesterday • E. Phillips Oppenheim
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