He has a pennyworth of cold boiled (unsalted) beef, a pennyworth of bread, a halfpennyworth of cheese and a pennyworth of currant jam.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Tramp's Wallet stored by an English goldsmith during his wanderings in Germany and France] Reference

Newman Noggs did not say that he had hunted up the old furniture they saw, from attic and cellar; or that he had taken in the halfpennyworth of milk for tea that stood upon a shelf, or filled the rusty kettle on the hob, or collected the woodchips from the wharf, or begged the coals.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nicholas Nickleby] Reference

Falstaff's gallon of sack to his halfpennyworth of bread.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rides on Railways] Reference

France; I had not a halfpennyworth more of news in my wallet.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 4] Reference

Not one halfpennyworth of property was lost, stolen, or strayed.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Letters of Charles Dickens Vol. 1 (of 3), 1833-1856] Reference

I never professed to have a halfpennyworth of pity at that gentleman's command.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Newcomes] Reference

But these are but the halfpennyworth of bread compared to the vast quantity of sack.    From Wordnik.com.  [Art in England Notes and Studies] Reference

Has anyone thrown away a halfpennyworth of sympathy upon any person mentioned in this history?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Catherine: a Story] Reference

But in my present undertaking it passes as the halfpennyworth of bread to many gallons of sack.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume II (of II)] Reference

Then one of the children runs to the chandler's and gets a halfpennyworth of tea, a scrap of bread, and perhaps a penny slice of sausage.    From Wordnik.com.  [Side Lights] Reference

No 4.5d. a day per mouth for food is coming in; no halfpennyworth of bread per meal; and, at the end of the week, no six shillings for rent.    From Wordnik.com.  [The People of the Abyss] Reference

I now give a halfpennyworth of bread to all this sack, an instance of the paradox of benevolence, in which an individual runs counter to all the ideas of his time, and sees his way into the next century.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume II (of II)] Reference

The hams and tongues seem, indeed, rather a poor halfpennyworth to this intolerable deal of sack; but this instance of Surinam privation in those days may open some glimpse at the colonial standards of comfort.    From Wordnik.com.  [Black Rebellion Five Slave Revolts] Reference

Having inspected the upper floors I descended to the basement, where what are called the 'Shelter men' are received at a separate entrance at 5.30 in the afternoon, and buying their penny or halfpennyworth of food, seat themselves on benches to eat.    From Wordnik.com.  [Regeneration] Reference

A halfpennyworth of snuff in a cornet or 'screw' of paper.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Mind That Found Itself An Autobiography] Reference

I never professed to have a halfpennyworth of pity at that gentleman’s command.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Newcomes] Reference