On one side was the familiar wreath with the word "fivepence" in the midst, with its Esperanto equivalent beneath, and on the other the profile of a man, with an inscription.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lord of the World] Reference

It is rather a costly article, being fivepence per bushel.    From Wordnik.com.  [International Weekly Miscellany - Volume 1, No. 8, August 19, 1850] Reference

Bossuet, as a sort of purchased slave, at the rate of fivepence a line.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Magic Skin] Reference

"I've won two and fivepence," announced Miss Caroline in satisfied tones.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Vision of Desire] Reference

“I want to dig in Number Seven,” Eglantine said, shoving fivepence at me.    From Wordnik.com.  [To Say Nothing of the Dog]

I've broken my radio silence to throw in fivepence worth on the Alleycat gig.    From Wordnik.com.  [FallNet - a pack of gnomes, trolls & gargoyles] Reference

He had sixpence to last him through Monday, but if he left fivepence of that for the.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Girls of St. Olave's] Reference

Considering that the paper cost fivepence a copy, this was not a very liberal allowance.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Magnificent Montez From Courtesan to Convert] Reference

I would demand less than any one else for my work; sixpence was ample, or perhaps fivepence.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hunger] Reference

I bought him years and years ago, price fivepence, in a little parchment-covered Cologne-printed volume, at.    From Wordnik.com.  [Roundabout Papers] Reference

Here was stock at nineteen shillings being offered at fivepence, and no rush to take it up even at that price.    From Wordnik.com.  [Men of Affairs] Reference

Do you know that the sheet of advertisements alone, at fivepence a line, brought in five hundred francs last month?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Two Poets] Reference

But we were allowed only to "sub" fivepence of the total sum, though the tally-keeper, short of change, gave us sixpence.    From Wordnik.com.  [HOPS AND HOPPERS] 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

Would some other officer look at the ledger and wonder who had written -fivepence, one shoe-brush-, against the name Thomas Cresacre?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sharpe's Eagle]

“The price for digging is tuppence a square or three for fivepence,” she said, unveiling the parcel, “and here is our Grand Prize.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [To Say Nothing of the Dog]

From the first formation of a Carlist force in Navarre, the men had been in the habit of receiving two reals, about fivepence sterling, a-day.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 358, August 1845] Reference

She had never seen her mother give more than fourpence or fivepence a dozen; and she thought she would ask, when she got home, whether it could really be as Tom said.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Eskdale Herd-boy A Scottish Tale for the Instruction and Amusement of Young People] Reference

And I paid for it with that and the fivepence I had.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of the Treasure Seekers] Reference

"He showed me what he 'd got -- only fivepence halfpenny.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Island Pharisees] Reference

When a bushel of corn sold for fivepence, a barrel of anchovies from the Black.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ancient States and Empires] Reference

Here, "he continued, standing by a bed," is a gentleman who owes me fivepence.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Island Pharisees] Reference

Shooting-gallery again, one and fourpence; Fat Woman a penny, one and fivepence.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jackanapes] Reference

Shooting-gallery again, one and four-pence; Fat Woman a penny, one and fivepence.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jackanapes, Daddy Darwin's Dovecot and Other Stories] Reference

Three shillings fivepence, which one of the laborers was able to give, was all we had.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life of Trust: Being a Narrative of the Lord's Dealings With George Müller] Reference

When she said they were fivepence he said that was too expensive, and he couldn't run to it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bird of Paradise] Reference

Almost before he knew where he was, John Douglas found himself at work in the docks, at fivepence an hour.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Beautiful Wretch; The Pupil of Aurelius; and The Four Macnicols] Reference

One or the other of my readers may be ready to exclaim, six hundred and ninety-seven pounds eleven shillings fivepence!.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life of Trust: Being a Narrative of the Lord's Dealings With George Müller] Reference

Now to-day my heart has been greatly refreshed by a donation of nine hundred and ninety-nine pounds thirteen shillings fivepence.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life of Trust: Being a Narrative of the Lord's Dealings With George Müller] Reference

Well, I'll bet a bull to fivepence, that the grinner gets upon it, and the snarler doesn't; at any rate, that he gets there first.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Romany Rye] Reference

I had prayed, brother T---- came and brought four pounds one shilling and fivepence, which had come in in several small donations.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life of Trust: Being a Narrative of the Lord's Dealings With George Müller] Reference

Then he had given her fivepence, so that his first patient had absorbed altogether not less than one sixth of his available capital.    From Wordnik.com.  [Round the Red Lamp] Reference

I bought him years and years ago, price fivepence, in a little parchment-covered Cologne-printed volume, at a stall in Gray's Inn Lane.    From Wordnik.com.  [Roundabout Papers] Reference