"Twenty pounds eightpence," said Nicholas faintly.    From Wordnik.com.  [In the Garden of Iden] Reference

One and eightpence too much, Mr Dedalus said drily.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ulysses] Reference

A hen, which used to be eightpence, is now twenty-four!.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Pillars of the Earth]

“For total loss of reputation, six and eightpence.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Wrong Box] Reference

He had amassed eightpence — a penny short of his kip.    From Wordnik.com.  [Down and Out in Paris and London] Reference

Victoria Station, where I obtained eightpence in exchange.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chatterbox, 1905.] Reference

Dounce eat half – a – dozen more of those at eightpence.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sketches by Boz] Reference

Among the farmers one pound nine and eightpence had been collected.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Claverings] Reference

Five shillings in the pound, six and – eightpence, ten shillings?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nicholas Nickleby] Reference

They give an excellent run for the money -- a mile for eightpence or so.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, February 28, 1917] Reference

I pull out the twenty-four shillings and eightpence with a trembling hand.    From Wordnik.com.  [Roundabout Papers] Reference

When I first settled down there, labourers were working at eightpence or tenpence a day.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Reminiscences of an Irish Land Agent] Reference

The penalty is only twelvepence for an ox or a cow, and eightpence for any smaller animal.    From Wordnik.com.  [Notes and Queries, Number 42, August 17, 1850] Reference

Guster replied that “he insistes on one and eightpence or on summonsizzing the party.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bleak House] Reference

It cost twenty-two thousand four hundred and nineteen pounds four shillings and eightpence.    From Wordnik.com.  [Doctor Thorne] Reference

October 22nd, 2006 at 11: 20 am eightpence » Scrybe - obnoxiously high fidelity - Phil Crosby.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scrybe Could Set a New Standard In Office Apps] Reference

Next best, in point of cleanliness, are the Salvation Army hostels, at sevenpence or eightpence.    From Wordnik.com.  [Down and Out in Paris and London] Reference

The quantity necessary for each horse per day costs about eightpence, and his maize as much more.    From Wordnik.com.  [Journal of a Voyage to Brazil And Residence There During Part of the Years 1821, 1822, 1823] Reference

Francis, my third (nine), one and sixpence halfpenny; Felix, my fourth (seven), eightpence to the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bleak House] Reference

Eight shillings for a bed and eightpence for a glass of sherry pointed to one of the most expensive hotels.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes]

Now, I have more than once said how expensive eggs were; and this day they happened to be eightpence apiece.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands] Reference

'Three shillings and eightpence, your worship - I could not abate a penny and set forth the value honestly.'.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vietnam: Solutions] Reference

Of expenses incurred there were: for Guild and police, eightpence; and clothing and washing, fourteen shillings.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Tramp's Wallet stored by an English goldsmith during his wanderings in Germany and France] Reference

He bought the pamphlet for eightpence, and it gave to him and us the great, unique achievement of this wonderful poem.    From Wordnik.com.  [Browning's Heroines] Reference

Wm. Graham did the same -- it was then selling from one shilling and sixpence to one shilling and eightpence a stone; Lord.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of the Great Irish Famine of 1847 (3rd ed.) (1902) With Notices of Earlier Irish Famines] Reference

Immediately after this eightpence is given "to a pore lame sowldior hurted in the quenes servyce in yrland having a lisens.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Cornwall Coast] Reference

Clerk of the Ordnance, with a stipend of eightpence per diem, and it is in that character that he figures on his title page.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1] Reference

Paddy and I pooled our tickets, and received food which we could have got for sevenpence or eightpence at most coffee-shops.    From Wordnik.com.  [Down and Out in Paris and London] Reference

The booty he took was very inconsiderable, being only a penknife, an ordinary seal, and five shillings and eightpence in money.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lives of the Most Remarkable Criminals Who have been Condemned and Executed for Murder, the Highway, Housebreaking, Street Robberies, Coining or other offences] Reference

When my money was down to one and fourpence I went for a night to a lodging-house in Bow, where the charge was only eightpence.    From Wordnik.com.  [Down and Out in Paris and London] Reference

It is against the law to enter the spike with more than eightpence, and any sum less than this one is supposed to hand over at the gate.    From Wordnik.com.  [Down and Out in Paris and London] Reference

Meat is eightpence a pound, but it is so thin and bony, and of such indifferent quality, that there is very little saving in that respect.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 100, April, 1876] Reference

Postoffice near Reuben J's one and eightpence too.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ulysses] Reference

One and eightpence too much, Mr Dedalus said drily.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ulysses] Reference

Treating Tony, and then he wouldn't shoot, so I did, one and eightpence.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jackanapes, Daddy Darwin's Dovecot and Other Stories] Reference

Boots and clothes is extra, and fires in winter-time is eightpence a day. '.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Old Curiosity Shop] Reference

I tell you he was worth four and eightpence, and the man was right when he said there wasn't his match in.    From Wordnik.com.  [Love, the Fiddler] Reference