Sentence examples for groat from inspiring English sources

Henry VII altered the types of the smaller silver coins by replacing the three-centuries-old cross and pellets by a long cross and shield, while the inscription POSVI DEVM ADIVTOREM MEVM ("I have made God my helper") took the place of the mint legend; the stereotyped bust was replaced on the groat by an excellent profile portrait and on the penny by the king seated.

At the start he lodged with a jobbing painter from Sicily named Lorenzo Siciliano, in whose workshop, says Bellori, "Caravaggio painted heads for a groat apiece and produced three a day".

He also introduced a groat, or fourpenny piece, but this larger coin did not establish itself until Edward III's reign.

Royal maundy money (since the 18th century) is maintained with the issue of silver pieces of onepenny, twopence, threepence, and fourpence: the silver penny and groat thus survive.

Dublin, Waterford, Cork, Limerick, and Trim were striking silver (increasingly base) from groat to farthing from the 13th to the 15th century.

Western influence continued in the 15th century, especially under John VIII Palaeologus, whose visit to Italy in 1438 (when Pisanello made his splendid portrait medal) doubtless familiarized him with the designs of the grosso and gros, which were imitated unmistakably on John's silver and from which derived the English groat.

"The immediate concern about shale gas development and hydraulic fracturing is that fracturing several thousand feet below the surface would put chemicals into the groundwater that people drank and that would be very bad for health," said Charles Groat, associate director of the Energy Institute at the University of Texas in Austin, who led the inquiry.

Back when the dumping was going on, forty years ago, the De Groat boys used to scavenge the freshly discarded piles of junk for carburetors and copper snakes to sell on the side of the road.

De Groat is a tall, genial, sixty-year-old man with silver hair and a prominent nose.

The subplot involves a bare-knuckle fight club led by Harrelson's irredeemable character, whose surname — De Groat — happens to be one of the most common among the real-life Ramapough Mountain Indians.

Now, on the remediation contractors' maps, it was SR-6, as in Sludge-Removal Site No. 6. "We got our situation here with the paint sludge and stuff, and they got their problem over there with Emil, De Groatt said, nodding east toward Stag Hill, where his father grew up.