They have now been reduced to ninepence a word to Australia or eighteen cents.    From Wordnik.com.  [A State-Owned Atlantic Cable] Reference

"Shilling shockers" are sold at ninepence, which is as comical as selling "tenpenny nails" at sixpence.    From Wordnik.com.  [Without Prejudice] Reference

"ninepence," -- twelve and a half cents, and the "four pence ha'penny," -- six cents and a quarter.    From Wordnik.com.  [A New England girlhood, outlined from memory (Beverly, MA)] Reference

A nobleman's life depended upon a question of ninepence.    From Wordnik.com.  [Half-Hours with Great Story-Tellers] Reference

Mr. Dolloby, not without some grumbling, gave ninepence.    From Wordnik.com.  [David Copperfield] Reference

I desired them to make me, I was obliged to pay ninepence.    From Wordnik.com.  [Travels in England in 1782] Reference

This rate at the present time is about ninepence per gallon.    From Wordnik.com.  [Acetylene, the Principles of Its Generation and Use] Reference

Six shillings and ninepence halfpenny on the very first day!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Oliver Twist] Reference

They are paid ninepence a day, and the work they do is a joke.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Yankee in the Trenches] Reference

And with you and me leaning back inside, as grand as ninepence!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Our Mutual Friend] Reference

William so well on exactly ten shillings and ninepence all round!.    From Wordnik.com.  [McClure's Magazine, Vol 31, No 2, June 1908] Reference

Or they wouldn't catch me on the ready, or nail me for ninepence.    From Wordnik.com.  [Musa Pedestris - Three Centuries of Canting Songs and Slang Rhymes [1536 - 1896]] Reference

"I get ninepence; some of the women only get sevenpence halfpenny.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Littlebourne Lock] Reference

One and ninepence and three and sixpence — total, five and three.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Moonstone] Reference

'This will keep them at bay all right, so, you see, I'm as safe as ninepence.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chatterbox, 1905.] Reference

‘I should rob my family,’ he said, ‘if I was to offer ninepence for it.’.    From Wordnik.com.  [David Copperfield] Reference

The said payment or six pounds and ninepence per £100 shall be payable half-yearly, in.    From Wordnik.com.  [South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 1 (of 6) From the Foundation of Cape Colony to the Boer Ultimatum of 9th Oct. 1899] Reference

He had a clean and comfortable bed for ninepence, and a good breakfast for a few coppers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chatterbox, 1905.] Reference

Day, of baked pork and fried potatoes, with bread, wine, and apple puffs, cost ninepence.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Tramp's Wallet stored by an English goldsmith during his wanderings in Germany and France] Reference

‘Ah, well, here’s a wee jotter, ninepence, and I can sell you an envelope for a penny.    From Wordnik.com.  [My Bones Will Keep]

I've had as much as ninepence in a day out o 'that yarn on the very road as we're a travellin' now. '.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Making Of A Novelist An Experiment In Autobiography] Reference

The retail price of this English set is ninepence -- the price of the American is less than sixpence.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American, Volume 40, No. 13, March 29, 1879 A Weekly Journal of Practical Information, Art, Science, Mechanics, Chemistry, and Manufactures] Reference

My circumstances being so very pressing, however, I said I would take ninepence for it, if he pleased.    From Wordnik.com.  [David Copperfield] Reference

My accent did not make him stare, I noticed; he merely demanded ninepence and then showed me the way to.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Road to Wigan Pier] Reference

Hugh Stanbury could not understand why he was charged a shilling a mile, instead of ninepence, for the gig to.    From Wordnik.com.  [He Knew He Was Right] Reference

Accordingly at 7 p.m. we found ourselves paying the sum of ninepence each at the entrance to the Calton Rooms.    From Wordnik.com.  [From John O'Groats to Land's End] Reference

It was, however, a great comfort to get the passport, and the pocket-book, which must be worth about ninepence.    From Wordnik.com.  [Little Travels and Roadside Sketches] Reference

Paris I commenced work at the modest remuneration of four francs and a half, three shillings and ninepence, a day.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Tramp's Wallet stored by an English goldsmith during his wanderings in Germany and France] Reference

We ain't had no new paper on it for ten year, an 'then I put it on myself, an' it didn't cost but ninepence a roll.    From Wordnik.com.  [Short Stories for English Courses] Reference

He's been stickin 'in like a hatter ever sin' syne, an 'has a'thing as neat's ninepence; so I canna say a single wird.    From Wordnik.com.  [My Man Sandy] Reference

We meet 'em ourselves -- religious beggars who're always passing round the hat for ninepence to make up another shilling.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Kangaroo Marines] 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

The tusks form an article of considerable trade, the ivory selling from a shilling to one and ninepence a pound, according to the perfection of the tusks.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380, June, 1847] Reference