"I'll put a tenner on him, any Sunday morning"-a figure of speech we cannot explain.
"Somehow Good"
William de Morgan
"'July 8. Mister Carrul, tenner, 1 doller.
"Amarilly of Clothes-line Alley"
Belle K. Maniates
The "tenner" and the young ladies who had given the tableaux had been interviewed, but in neither case had the mysterious pocket been discovered.
"Amarilly of Clothes-line Alley"
Belle K. Maniates