A coin is a disc of metal.

The supermarket, its turnstiles and trundlers, gave substance to hopes as desirable and distant as heaven.

'Vot game now she play?' he asked himself, as he distinguished his wife near one of the pig-scalding coppers.

Nor seek to get his patron's favour, by embarking himself in the factions of the family; to enquire after domestic simulties, their sports or affections.