It was when you told me to put the eightpenny scuttle in Miss.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Splendid Folly] Reference

Finally she slapped on the table two ‘large teas’ and four slices of bread and dripping — that is, eightpenny-worth of food.    From Wordnik.com.  [Down and Out in Paris and London] Reference

In the eightpenny dormitories the beds are comfortable, but there are so many of them (as a rule at least forty to a room), and so close together, that it is impossible to get a quiet night.    From Wordnik.com.  [Down and Out in Paris and London] Reference

His lordship is meekly going to dine at an eightpenny ordinary, his giants in pawn, his men in armor dwindled to “one poor knight,” his carriage to be sold, his stalwart aldermen vanished, his sheriffs, alas! and alas! in gaol!.    From Wordnik.com.  [George Cruikshank] Reference

"Go get a claw hammer and three pounds of eightpenny nails.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Home Lights and Shadows] Reference

An eight-shilling meal stands out, among eightpenny teas, as a rare extravagance.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anthony Lyveden] Reference

"This, I presume," he remarked, "is not where you serve the eightpenny table d'hote?".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Yellow Crayon] Reference

Finally she slapped on the table two ‘large teas’ and four slices of bread and drippingthat is, eightpenny-worth of food.    From Wordnik.com.  [Down and Out in Paris and London] Reference

Even on ordinary days those low-ceiled dining-rooms, stretching far back from the street in a complicated vista of interiors, were apt to be crowded; for the quality of the eightpenny dinner could be relied upon.    From Wordnik.com.  [Clayhanger] Reference

My dinner consists in rotation of one third of a pound of bacon, cooked over the gas (twopence halfpenny), or two saveloys (twopence), or two pieces of fried fish (twopence), or a quarter of an eightpenny tin of Chicago beef.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Stark Munro Letters] Reference

His lordship is meekly going to dine at an eightpenny ordinary, his giants in pawn, his men in armor dwindled to "one poor knight," his carriage to be sold, his stalwart aldermen vanished, his sheriffs, alas! and alas! in gaol!.    From Wordnik.com.  [George Cruikshank] Reference

My dinner consists in rotation of one third of a pound of bacon, cooked over the gas (twopence halfpenny), or two saveloys (twopence), or two pieces of fried fish (twopence), or a quarter of an eightpenny tin of Chicago beef (twopence).    From Wordnik.com.  [The Stark Munro Letters] Reference

Something or a Sir Somebody; he knows the noble landlord at heart gives the bard, or whatever he is, a share of his good wishes, beyond, perhaps, any one at the table; yet how will it mortify him to see a fellow whose abilities would scarcely have made an eightpenny tailor, and whose heart is not worth three farthings, meet with attention, and notice that are withheld from the son of genius and poverty!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Robert Burns] Reference

For the eightpenny dinners were the scorn of the neighbourhood, and strangers were rare in the wine shop of Emil Sachs. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Yellow Crayon] Reference

"Do you go down to Leslie's and tell him to send me a good claw hammer and three pounds of eightpenny nails.    From Wordnik.com.  [Home Lights and Shadows] Reference

An eightpenny in the Burton.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ulysses] Reference