"They like things to be neat and new, and that sixpence is bent.". From Wordnik.com. [Mopsa the Fairy] Reference
I only know a few words; they call a sixpence a tanner, don't they? '. From Wordnik.com. [Lavengro; the Scholar, the Gypsy, the Priest] Reference
"A sixpence is a tanner, and a shilling a bob; but what a pony is I don't know.". From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 14] Reference
We can't raise sixpence, that is legally, on Pennington. From Wordnik.com. [The Birthright] Reference
"They break a sixpence wi 'the lad they love, and they each keep a half o' it.". From Wordnik.com. [A Daughter of Fife] Reference
Thus we have three pounds one shilling sixpence, which is quite enough for this day. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Trust: Being a Narrative of the Lord's Dealings With George Müller] Reference
“A sixpence is a tanner, and a shilling a bob; but what a pony is I don’t know.”. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 14] Reference
The man haggling over the sixpence is the great artist!”. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of My Life]
"The Fife lads break a sixpence in twa wi 'their troth lass; and I hae my half sixpence. From Wordnik.com. [A Daughter of Fife] Reference
I suppose we can call it square if we each hands in sixpence, which is the price o 'your paper, and then you can tell us what's on. ". From Wordnik.com. [The Firm of Girdlestone] Reference
I slipped the boy a sixpence and climbed the stairs. From Wordnik.com. [The Case Of The Limehouse Golem] Reference
He found a crooked sixpence against a crooked stile. From Wordnik.com. [How to Tell Stories to Children, And Some Stories to Tell] Reference
I sing a song of sixpence, with a pocket full of rye. From Wordnik.com. [Dorothy's Mystical Adventures in Oz] Reference
We sing a song of sixpence with a pocket full of rye. From Wordnik.com. [Dorothy's Mystical Adventures in Oz] Reference
He produced two florins, a sixpence, and a halfpenny. From Wordnik.com. [Antony Gray,—Gardener] Reference
"Two half-crowns and a sixpence," said Tom, promptly. From Wordnik.com. [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 7] Reference
Her small purse was in the bottom holding her silver sixpence. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of Stories for the Story-teller] Reference
"Everything is sixpence in this shop," said Molly, in despair. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of Stories for the Story-teller] Reference
Highness 'picture and arms in a piece of sixpence current money. From Wordnik.com. [A Book of Discovery The History of the World's Exploration, From the Earliest Times to the Finding of the South Pole] Reference
"Have you a sixpence -- or only a penny or two left of the money?". From Wordnik.com. [The Old Homestead] Reference
Gertie announced that the total cost was two shillings and sixpence. From Wordnik.com. [Love at Paddington] Reference
Dot had two shillings and sixpence halfpenny in her small worn purse. From Wordnik.com. [An Australian Lassie] Reference
Was Hobbes really self-seeking when he gave the sixpence to the old beggar?. From Wordnik.com. [A Handbook of Ethical Theory] Reference
"I will let you have it for sixpence seeing that it is you," the girl said. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of Stories for the Story-teller] Reference
There were nine half-pennies, three pennies, a threepenny bit and a sixpence. From Wordnik.com. [An Australian Lassie] Reference
She had given her purse to the beggar and carried the sixpence off in triumph. From Wordnik.com. [Ideala] Reference
Isabel rose up in terror, and taking their last sixpence, went forth for the ice. From Wordnik.com. [The Old Homestead] Reference
As I have spent your sixpence, I want you to spend mine, and then we shall be even. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of Stories for the Story-teller] Reference
"I've sixpence-halfpenny," said Betty, and unclosed her little brown hand for a second. From Wordnik.com. [An Australian Lassie] Reference
Here's the rope-dancing and juggling, with lots of gilt gingerbread, -- and all for sixpence!. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 106, August, 1866] Reference
This proclaims the sad fact that you must endeavour to make sixpence do the work of a shilling. From Wordnik.com. [Telling Fortunes By Tea Leaves] Reference
Pa saw through these tricks and, to arrive at the truth, discounted the six shillings down to sixpence. From Wordnik.com. [The Bill-Toppers] Reference
In the original, what is here translated a pound, is in Latin, mina, in value of our coin, three pounds two shillings and sixpence. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 49: Luke The Challoner Revision] Reference
Frederick Bulpert, having obtained two professional engagements at seven shillings and sixpence each, resigned his situation in the Post. From Wordnik.com. [Love at Paddington] Reference
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