Adjective : a halfpenny matter. From Dictionary.com.
He produced two florins, a sixpence, and a halfpenny. From Wordnik.com. [Antony Gray,—Gardener] Reference
The grand total she found was one and fourpence halfpenny. From Wordnik.com. [An Australian Lassie] Reference
Oh, that IS modest (becomes halfpenny giddy halfpennyébouler). From Wordnik.com. [Kog Zadare, only living person...] Reference
"It is one shilling and a halfpenny a yard," the assistant replied. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of Stories for the Story-teller] Reference
"I get ninepence; some of the women only get sevenpence halfpenny.". From Wordnik.com. [Littlebourne Lock] Reference
Dot had two shillings and sixpence halfpenny in her small worn purse. From Wordnik.com. [An Australian Lassie] Reference
As it was, he flirted hugely, and cared not for her one copper halfpenny. From Wordnik.com. [An Old Meerschaum From Coals Of Fire And Other Stories, Volume II. (of III.)] Reference
He had not gone twenty yards when he found a halfpenny lying on the grass. From Wordnik.com. [Despair's Last Journey] Reference
Here she only made a penny halfpenny by her song, but as she said to John. From Wordnik.com. [An Australian Lassie] Reference
'It's sixpence-halfpenny if you have it here, sixpence if you go out for it.'. From Wordnik.com. [Despair's Last Journey] Reference
"What do you mean?" said I. "It needn't cost you a halfpenny," he went on, smiling. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, April 29, 1914] Reference
The buckets were made of leather and the water was sold at a halfpenny per Hessian. From Wordnik.com. [Recollections of Old Liverpool] Reference
Yet not to be beaten, Arkwright altered his sign to "A clean shave for a halfpenny.". From Wordnik.com. [An Australian Lassie] Reference
The other token of the same merchant is rather larger and thicker than our halfpenny. From Wordnik.com. [A Trip to Paris in July and August 1792] Reference
"I've sixpence-halfpenny," said Betty, and unclosed her little brown hand for a second. From Wordnik.com. [An Australian Lassie] Reference
The men started with a halfpenny pool, and the first thrower cast three plain surfaces. From Wordnik.com. [Despair's Last Journey] Reference
I opened the brown parcel, and counted four shillings and eleven-pence halfpenny in coppers. From Wordnik.com. [My New Curate] Reference
The last quarter I have just eaten at the tavern, and I have spent the last halfpenny in drink. From Wordnik.com. [Folk-lore and Legends: German] Reference
Burton found that excellent cigars, better than many "Havannas," were retailed at a halfpenny each. From Wordnik.com. [Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce] Reference
"No, sir, nor supper last night, do pray give me a halfpenny, I am so very faint for want of food.". From Wordnik.com. [A Week of Instruction and Amusement, or, Mrs. Harley's birthday present to her daughter : interspersed with short stories, outlines of sacred and prophane history, geography &c.] Reference
There he realised half-a-crown, one halfpenny of which was confiscated in payment for the pawn-ticket. From Wordnik.com. [Cruel Barbara Allen From Coals Of Fire And Other Stories, Volume II. (of III.)] Reference
Ingredients, two pounds of flour, a halfpenny worth of yeast, a pinch of salt, one pint of milk or water. From Wordnik.com. [A Plain Cookery Book for the Working Classes] Reference
This halfpenny he carries to the nearest shop, lays it on the counter, and receives his biscuit in return. From Wordnik.com. [Chatterbox Stories of Natural History] Reference
Boyne, ordered that the crown piece and half-crown should be taken as one penny and one halfpenny respectively. From Wordnik.com. [Notes and Queries, No. 209, October 29 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Geneologists, etc.] Reference
The landlord therefore was ordered to bring in a quarter of a pound, which he did in scales, at four-pence halfpenny. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume III.] Reference
Canongate with the notes of our particular music, and surrounded by an eager crowd demanding the halfpenny broadsheet. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 379, May, 1847] Reference
We sent for some unbleached calico the other day, worth twopence-halfpenny; was charged twelve cents or sixpence a yard. From Wordnik.com. [A Lady's Life on a Farm in Manitoba] Reference
"Oh," said Julia, thoughtfully; "I'd like yer to come to-morrer," and then as she passed she dropped a halfpenny into my box. From Wordnik.com. [The Idler Magazine, Volume III, June 1893 An Illustrated Monthly] Reference
And I can declare, most solemnly, that hitherto I have not received so much as a halfpenny from any of those whom I have saved. From Wordnik.com. [The Hero of the Humber or the History of the Late Mr. John Ellerthorpe] Reference
Joan once worked out that by shopping in this manner we saved ninepence-halfpenny every time we spent one pound four and fivepence. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, August 5th, 1914] Reference
The odd halfpenny presumably represents the cost of an evening edition bought by the official contradictor in the exercise of his duties. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, November 4, 1914] Reference
Next morning, being very hungry, he got up and walked about, and asked everybody he met to give him a halfpenny to keep him from starving. From Wordnik.com. [Favorite Fairy Tales] Reference
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