I would have a halfpenny worth or a pennyworth — you may guess my surprize — but twopence is all I can have — many a worthier person wants that — why then should. From Wordnik.com. [Letter 40] Reference
I was awarded one shilling twopence per day pension. From Wordnik.com. [A Soldier's Life Being the Personal Reminiscences of Edwin G. Rundle] Reference
It can be had from the druggist at twopence per quart. From Wordnik.com. [Papers on Health] Reference
This was a covered Jersey wagon, -- fare, twopence per mile. From Wordnik.com. [The Olden Time Series: Vol. 2: The Days of the Spinning-Wheel in New England Gleanings Chiefly from old Newspapers of Boston and Salem, Massachusetts] Reference
'One and twopence,' I answered, and he looked solemn at that. From Wordnik.com. [Chatterbox, 1905.] Reference
Shrapnel we have had -- but we do not care twopence for shrapnel. From Wordnik.com. [The Incomparable 29th and the "River Clyde"] Reference
Tiny Tim drank it last of all, but he didn't care twopence for it. From Wordnik.com. [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 6] Reference
"It is very evident that you did not pay the extra twopence for manners.". From Wordnik.com. [Adventures in Toyland What the Marionette Told Molly] Reference
"Saved" is a money box, containing twopence halfpenny, mostly in farthings. From Wordnik.com. [Entertainments for Home, Church and School] Reference
"Can't I be raised to twopence a week now I'm going on for thirteen," he said. From Wordnik.com. [An Australian Lassie] Reference
"Because the loaf's only twopence-three-farthings," was the unlooked-for answer. From Wordnik.com. [Children's Rhymes, Children's Games, Children's Songs, Children's Stories A Book for Bairns and Big Folk] Reference
Then he drove me off and said I was a cheeky little devil, but he gave me twopence. From Wordnik.com. [The Tale of Lal A Fantasy] Reference
He finishes the story by saying that they bought some for dinner at twopence apiece. From Wordnik.com. [Devon, Its Moorlands, Streams and Coasts] Reference
He wouldn't give twopence for all the poets in England, and still less for their wives. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 357, June, 1845] Reference
Extra payment has to be made for luggage (twopence per piece outside), for extra passengers. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"] Reference
'Here!' says the subtle tempter, 'I'll give you twopence if you'll put your baby on the fire!'. From Wordnik.com. [My Contemporaries In Fiction] Reference
He caught a street Arab, and promised him twopence if he would come and blow for him while he practised. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, September, 1878] Reference
Judge for yourself: fowls cost twopence each, and everything else is to be had at correspondingly low prices. From Wordnik.com. [French and Oriental Love in a Harem] Reference
Collectivist Revolution, instead of saying "twopence worth of soap," we shall say "five minutes 'worth of soap.". From Wordnik.com. [The Conquest of Bread] Reference
This is courage -- the real article -- and the market price of this kind of British pluck is one and twopence a day!. From Wordnik.com. [Impressions of a War Correspondent] 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
The duty on importation had been only twopence per pound, a moderate sum in view of the prices realized by the sale of it. From Wordnik.com. [Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce] Reference
Beef is tenpence to thirteenpence a pound, mutton about the same, bacon tenpence, pork tenpence, chickens four and twopence each. From Wordnik.com. [A Lady's Life on a Farm in Manitoba] Reference
If we did work, which as I have said was a rarity, our ordinary pay of two schillinge, scarcely twopence per hour, was increased to three. From Wordnik.com. [A Tramp's Wallet stored by an English goldsmith during his wanderings in Germany and France] Reference
After a little more talk and a little more persuasion, William said he would take two pennyworth of buns, and gave Kate twopence as he spoke. From Wordnik.com. [Kate's Ordeal] Reference
Look here, at Caracas people used to offer me twopence to let them black my eye, sometimes, when my brother was locked up at the police-station. From Wordnik.com. [The Bill-Toppers] Reference
"That's a case," said an Irishman on hearing it, "of twopence-halfpenny looking down on twopence," or by another comparison, it is a case of one. From Wordnik.com. [A History of Nursery Rhymes] Reference
We paid twopence a week for being taught reading, and threepence a week for "righting and siphering," as the town clerk entered it on his books. From Wordnik.com. [Ben Comee A Tale of Rogers's Rangers, 1758-59] Reference
What would that penny-plain - and-twopence-coloured bogey, the Nonconformist Conscience, make of such a story if it were blazoned through the land. From Wordnik.com. [The Beetle] Reference
Away they drove, and finally drew up at a very nice house, where he paid the twopence halfpenny fare for his cab, rang the bell, and was admitted by. From Wordnik.com. [Through Finland in Carts] Reference
Well, he ate a good deal of pastry off the plates, and then gave me twopence for some buns, expecting half a dozen, I suppose, for he was very much surprised that. From Wordnik.com. [Kate's Ordeal] Reference
It was a lovely evening, and we munched wild strawberries by the way, which we bought for twopence in a birch-bark basket from a shoeless little urchin on the road. From Wordnik.com. [Through Finland in Carts] Reference
Every epistle, not delivered by private hand, costs twopence for transmission; rather a high rate for home postage, considering that foreign letters only cost a fourth more. From Wordnik.com. [Through Finland in Carts] Reference
At the College of Breuil at Angers, a fine of twopence, was imposed for speaking or singing "verba inhonesta tam alte," especially in public places of the College; in Germany, the. From Wordnik.com. [Life in the Medieval University] Reference
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