pocket money

EDUCATION.öAt Mr Wackford Squeers's Academy, Dotheboys Hall, at the delightful village of Dotheboys, near Greta Bridge inYorkshire.Youth are boarded, clothed, booked, furnished with pocket-money, providedwith all necessaries, instructed inall languages, living and dead, mathematics, orthography, geometry, astronomy, trigonometry, the use of the globes, algebra, single stick (if required), writing, arithmetic, fortification, and every other branch of classical literature. Terms, twenty guineas per annum. No extras, no vacations, and diet unparalleled.

—Dickens, CharlesJohn Huffam

There is no art which one government sooner learns of another than that of draining money from the pockets of the people.

—Smith, Adam

And I dream of the days when work was scrappy, And rare in our pockets the mark of the mint, When we were angryand poor and happy, And proud of seeing our names in print.

—Chesterton, G(ilbert) K(eith)

They lounge at corners of the street And greet friends with a shrug of shoulder And turn their pockets out, The cynical gestures of the poor.

—Spender, Sir Stephen Harold

The candles burn their sockets, The blinds let through the day, The young man feels his pockets And wonders what's to pay.

—Housman, A(lfred) E(dward)