There is no reason why every ninepenny lodging-house should not come up to this standard. From Wordnik.com. [Down and Out in Paris and London] Reference
Thanks to Ellen, morning-demon, ninepenny, The rabbit and Game of Thrones UK for the links. From Wordnik.com. [More critics discuss Thrones] Reference
Well! I don't believe you men know, half the time, whether a lady wears a ninepenny collar or a thread-lace cape worth a thousand dollars. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 33, July, 1860] Reference
I heard the clink of approaching glasses -- the ninepenny creams. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of a Bad Boy] Reference
I see a real good ninepenny paper once, all covered over with green brakes. From Wordnik.com. [Meadow Grass Tales of New England Life] Reference
Mr. Wrenn could hardly keep his feet on the pavement as they scampered to it and got ninepenny seats. From Wordnik.com. [Our Mr. Wrenn, the Romantic Adventures of a Gentle Man] Reference
"You can't expect to get much for the contents of a ninepenny puzzle, not even the price of a cab fare, Pugh.". From Wordnik.com. [The Lock and Key Library Classic Mystery and Detective Stories: Modern English] Reference
Occasionally he treated himself to threepenny or ninepenny classics, and they usually represented a suppression of potatoes or chops. From Wordnik.com. [The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories] Reference
'At Warborne, -- a place where they draw up young gam'sters' brains like rhubarb under a ninepenny pan, my lady, excusing my common way. From Wordnik.com. [Two on a Tower] Reference
Failing that, my dear Pugh, I had some faint, vague, very vague idea of taking the contents of your ninepenny puzzle to a certain firm in. From Wordnik.com. [The Lock and Key Library Classic Mystery and Detective Stories: Modern English] Reference
Indoors he made baskets of assortments: threepenny, sixpenny, ninepenny and shilling baskets, rather like a bran pie in which everything was a plum. From Wordnik.com. [The Lost Girl] Reference
Does it seem reasonable that we should find a diamond, which, if it is a diamond, is the finest stone I ever saw and handled, in a ninepenny puzzle?. From Wordnik.com. [The Lock and Key Library Classic Mystery and Detective Stories: Modern English] Reference
ANOTHER ninepenny acquisition: Chronological Tablets, exhibiting every Remarkable Occurrence from the Creation of the World down to the Present Time. From Wordnik.com. [As I Please] Reference
"Well, that only makes my case the stronger; I don't believe that the maddest man that ever lived would throw away a diamond worth more than a thousand pounds with such utter wantonness as seems to have characterized the action of the original owner of the stone which I found in your ninepenny puzzle, Pugh.". From Wordnik.com. [The Lock and Key Library Classic Mystery and Detective Stories: Modern English] Reference
Lizzie, his wife, had adorned the front room with a bright ninepenny paper, of which a little piece was enclosed, -- which he kept as a sort of charm about him and exhibited to his friends; how she and her little brother had lathed the entry and the kitchen, and how they had set out blackberry vines from the woods. From Wordnik.com. [Eli First published in the "Century Magazine"] Reference
"Samuel's repainted ninepenny may whiz past us at any moment. From Wordnik.com. [Once a Week] Reference
A one and twopenny tea with a fine two and ninepenny flavour. From Wordnik.com. [A Tale of One City: the New Birmingham Papers Reprinted from the "Midland Counties Herald"] Reference
‘At Warborne, — a place where they draw up young gam’sters’ brains like rhubarb under a ninepenny pan, my lady, excusing my common way. From Wordnik.com. [Two on a Tower] Reference
Something tells me, perhaps it is the unusually strong vein of common sense which I possess, that the contents of your ninepenny puzzle will be found to be a magnificent do -- an ingenious practical joke, my friend. ". From Wordnik.com. [The Lock and Key Library Classic Mystery and Detective Stories: Modern English] Reference
Thanks to ninepenny for the link!. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-12-01] Reference
Posted on January 4, 2010 4:18 PM ninepenny. From Wordnik.com. [More critics discuss Thrones] Reference
Posted on January 2, 2010 7:09 PM ninepenny. From Wordnik.com. [Entertainment Weekly mentions Thrones] Reference
Posted on January 6, 2010 10:06 AM ninepenny. From Wordnik.com. [Episode 2: What comes next?] Reference
Posted on December 29, 2009 8:47 AM ninepenny. From Wordnik.com. [WiC on Television Zombies podcast] Reference
Posted on December 29, 2009 3:15 PM ninepenny. From Wordnik.com. [WiC on Television Zombies podcast] Reference
I'm always ashamed, as it is, to ask for ninepenny sailor's knots and one - and-twopenny kid gloves at the shop. ". From Wordnik.com. [My Friend Smith A Story of School and City Life] Reference
Posted on November 17, 2009 10:43 AM ninepenny http://insideblip.com/node/196 - But will the pilot get a hearty thumbs up from HBO when McCarthy turns it in?. From Wordnik.com. [Day 24: Filming a Dothraki wedding] Reference
Posted on January 4, 2010 3:35 PM ninepenny http://www.innovativeartists.com/upload/Riegel.web.resume.pdf lists HBO's Holly Schiffer as being involved in Game of Thrones Pilot. From Wordnik.com. [More critics discuss Thrones] Reference
"Can't you get the ninepenny ones now?". From Wordnik.com. [Once a Week] Reference
1940s, the ordinary chap in the Odeon's ninepenny stalls is baffled, even annoyed. From Wordnik.com. [Film | guardian.co.uk] Reference
Posted on January 1, 2010 10:02 PM ninepenny http://awritersguide.blogspot.com/2010/01/is-game-of-thrones-best-choice-for-new.html. From Wordnik.com. [Entertainment Weekly mentions Thrones] Reference
Posted on January 6, 2010 12:52 PM ninepenny http://tunedin.blogs.time.com/2010/01/06/hbo-adds-to-stable-with-milch-mann-horse-drama/. From Wordnik.com. [Episode 2: What comes next?] Reference
Posted on November 17, 2009 8:43 PM ninepenny http://airlockalpha.com/feature/6894/commentary-hbo-should-find-gold-with-game-of-thrones.html. From Wordnik.com. [Jamie Campbell Bower talks Thrones] Reference
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