And as they came in sixpenny numbers weekly, he had about as many hours to read as other boys spend in play. From Wordnik.com. [Letter 20] Reference
Mauser rifle was offered for a sixpenny packet of cigarettes. From Wordnik.com. [With Methuen's Column on an Ambulance Train] Reference
How I loved those little sixpenny numbers, containing whole poets!. From Wordnik.com. [International Weekly Miscellany - Volume 1, No. 5, July 29, 1850] Reference
I found a book in a sixpenny rack called The Buskin and the Boards. From Wordnik.com. [Killer Dolphin]
At last, among other "sixpenny miracles," he arrives at the Zoological. From Wordnik.com. [Lands of the Slave and the Free Cuba, the United States, and Canada] Reference
Wells and Shaw and the serious sixpenny weeklies will sit on its head. From Wordnik.com. [Jacob's Room] Reference
Nine Nations, 'or wherever we could get a sixpenny rag to lay down upon. From Wordnik.com. [An Outcast or, Virtue and Faith] Reference
Isters and champagne, no doubt, and liquoor brandy, and sixpenny smokes!. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 102, May 28, 1892] Reference
To see Venice the Bride of the Sea, as set forth in them sixpenny books. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, August 27, 1892] Reference
But I'd like to know what the sixpenny option is, in case I like that, too. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
The servant in black was fishing in a pocket, probably for a sixpenny piece. From Wordnik.com. [One Night for Love]
The next morning he took a sixpenny breakfast, and started out to look for work. From Wordnik.com. [Four Famous American Writers: Washington Irving, Edgar Allan Poe, James Russell Lowell, Bayard Taylor A Book for Young Americans] Reference
I kept those two boys on my sixpenny worth of barley sugar for about three weeks. From Wordnik.com. [Clotel; or, The President's Daughter: A Narrative of Slave Life in the United States. By William Wells Brown, A Fugitive Slave, Author of "Three Years in Europe." With a Sketch of the Author's Life] Reference
Item the vanity of Mr.H. the writer, scraping in the dunghill for sixpenny fame. From Wordnik.com. [Between the Acts] Reference
Switching on the light, he took from the sideboard a sixpenny notebook, and opened it. From Wordnik.com. [A Murder of Quality]
'I want two shillings and sixpence or sixpenny-worth of coppers for a half-crown piece.'. From Wordnik.com. [Chatterbox, 1905.] Reference
He spends half his time among the sixpenny and shilling bins in Long Acre and the Charing Cross Road. From Wordnik.com. [Killer Dolphin]
Half a crown you shall have, all for yourself, and the sixpenny boat that you longed for in the shops. From Wordnik.com. [Mary Anerley] Reference
Lady Kew coming to London attended on the party, and presented her granddaughter with a sixpenny pincushion. From Wordnik.com. [The Newcomes] Reference
A sixpenny bit spun on its edge across the carpet, reached a pair of silver shoes on the floor and fell flat. From Wordnik.com. [The Years] Reference
His traveling library consisted of a chap-book life of Wallace, and some sixpenny parts of the Old Bailey Sessions. From Wordnik.com. [The Bibliotaph and Other People] Reference
It was served up for the masses in sixpenny editions, dramatized and acted on the stage, and coined into poetry and song. From Wordnik.com. [Political Recollections 1840 to 1872] Reference
He passed down the narrow little passage, which she called a hall, of the seven and sixpenny house which was his first home. From Wordnik.com. [The Prussian Officer and Other Stories] Reference
She brought with her a present of a sixpenny packet of cigarettes; the man in the bed smoked one gravely and in perfect silence. From Wordnik.com. [Ruined City]
However, without any hesitation, he accepted the invitation, and yielded to the proposition that they should play sixpenny points. From Wordnik.com. [Life in London or, the Pitfalls of a Great City] Reference
Mozart, to the little rooms where sixpenny tickets procure lager-beer as well as music for the purchaser, the drama is worshipped. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 32, June, 1860] Reference
She for whom "sympathisers" and "well-wishers" had collected their sixpenny-pieces that she and hers might be saved from starving. From Wordnik.com. [Mrs. Day's Daughters] Reference
Cardboard crowns, swords made of silver paper, turbans that were sixpenny dish cloths, lay on the grass or were flung on the bushes. From Wordnik.com. [Between the Acts] Reference
There were, of course, thunders of applause from the sixpenny seats when the Thought Reading part of the entertainment came to an end. From Wordnik.com. [The Argosy Vol. 51, No. 2, February, 1891] Reference
That splendid capability was never more fully realised by the laws of a sixpenny club, than by the great charter of American liberties. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 385. November, 1847.] Reference
In large towns it is easy to purchase sixpenny-worth of fowls 'necks, gizzards, and feet, which, prepared as indicated in the foregoing. From Wordnik.com. [A Plain Cookery Book for the Working Classes] Reference
And finally, to crown the loss of so many thousands, he lost the sixpenny-bit with a hole in it which had always brought him good luck. From Wordnik.com. [The Common Reader, Second Series] Reference
Well, on second thoughts, perhaps this size is rather -- I think I'll take five of the sixpenny ones instead -- they're every bit as good. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 102, February 27, 1892] Reference
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