"pennyworth," occurs as the rendering of the Roman denarius.    From Wordnik.com.  [Smith's Bible Dictionary] Reference

Do you think you could go and buy three pennyworth?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, July 15, 1914] Reference

Sir, your pennyworth is good, an your goose be fat.    From Wordnik.com.  [Love’s Labour ’s Lost] Reference

Harper, his pennyworth contributed, turned back to the stove.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sharpe's Siege]

Two hundred pennyworth of bread, said he, would not be enough.    From Wordnik.com.  [Barnes New Testament Notes] Reference

Imperial General, who accepted a pennyworth of beer on the road.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vanity Fair] Reference

He deserted the telescope; he reckoned he had had his pennyworth.    From Wordnik.com.  [Crime On the Coast]

So he called for three pennyworth of wine and a pennyworth of bread.    From Wordnik.com.  [Folk-lore and Legends: German] Reference

She stopped at the first shop she passed and bought a pennyworth of cheese.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. XVI., December, 1880.] Reference

But it is the pennyworth of sack to an intolerably large quantity of bread.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, October 17, 1891] Reference

"Shall we go and buy two hundred pennyworth of bread, and give them to eat?".    From Wordnik.com.  [Jesus of Nazareth, A Biography, by John Mark] Reference

When the rice is nearly cooked, add a pennyworth of saffron, stirring it in evenly.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Belgian Cookbook] Reference

May this pen never write a pennyworth again, if it ever casts ridicule upon either!.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of Snobs] Reference

Many a night no less than ten persons subsisted on no more than a pennyworth of dates.    From Wordnik.com.  [Statement on Bahá’u’lláh] Reference

The parts that did not seem a pennyworth different from Enaila or Lamelle at their worst.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fires of Heaven]

Until a pennyworth of acrid green apples turned the current that threatened to carry him away.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Wheels of Chance: a bicycling idyll] Reference

And they say unto him, Shall we go and buy two hundred pennyworth of bread, and give them to eat?.    From Wordnik.com.  [From the Talmud and Hebraica] Reference

"I have not yet seen it," says the Baron, "but wish the adventurous pennyworth every possible success.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, March 7, 1891] Reference

Even in the two-tone drab buttoned up to the neck she made the others look like two pennyworth of muck.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Rainbow and the Rose]

It appears that she went to Matthew Gibson, a servant to John Chapman, and asked for a pennyworth of straw.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mysteries of All Nations Rise and Progress of Superstition, Laws Against and Trials of Witches, Ancient and Modern Delusions Together With Strange Customs, Fables, and Tales] Reference

The applications grew longer and longer until they ran to four sheets of note-paper — a pennyworth in fact.    From Wordnik.com.  [Love and Mr Lewisham] Reference

Philip answered him: Two hundred pennyworth of bread is not sufficient for them that every one may take a little.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 50: John The Challoner Revision] Reference

Searching in a drawer of the round table she found a large envelope on which was written, "Giant pennyworth of note.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Women of the Country] Reference

Such zests as his particular little phial of cayenne pepper and his pennyworth of pickles in a saucer, were not wanting.    From Wordnik.com.  [Little Dorrit] Reference

Merchandizes in my Magazine (the time of generall utterance being not yet come) I shall not make a pennyworth for a penny.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Decameron] Reference

Should you wish to brighten up the old mahogany, use polish dyed with Bismarck brown as follows: -- Get three pennyworth of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Burroughs' Encyclopaedia of Astounding Facts and Useful Information, 1889] Reference

And it was the same to Medb as if she owned not a pennyworth, forasmuch as she had not a bull of his size amongst her cattle.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ancient Irish Epic Tale Táin Bó Cúalnge] Reference

Paddy had meanwhile been making inquiries, and found that the real cause of the quarrel was, as usual, a few pennyworth of food.    From Wordnik.com.  [Down and Out in Paris and London] Reference

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

He brought my little ones a pennyworth of gingerbread each, which my wife undertook to keep for them, and give them by letters at a time.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Vicar of Wakefield] Reference

Soon thereafter Gibson became like an insane man, and ran three miles along the highway, asking every one he met for a pennyworth of straw.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mysteries of All Nations Rise and Progress of Superstition, Laws Against and Trials of Witches, Ancient and Modern Delusions Together With Strange Customs, Fables, and Tales] Reference

And now, at midnight, in the middle of the streets, she was praying for a pennyworth of gin, as the only comfort she knew, or could expect!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Can You Forgive Her?] Reference