At last a boy came to him and offered tenpence for me. From Wordnik.com. [The Adventures of a Squirrel, Supposed to be Related by Himself] Reference
There's brandy in Quebec at just tenpence a quart, boys. From Wordnik.com. [The Green Fields of America (2)] Reference
Blues a tenpence on a telegram, an 'my clothes owin' for. From Wordnik.com. [Oh! Susannah! A Farcical Comedy in Three Acts] Reference
One gulden-schein — about tenpence — is the regulated fee. From Wordnik.com. [A Tramp's Wallet stored by an English goldsmith during his wanderings in Germany and France] Reference
Tooni paid Sheik Uddin tenpence, and admired her purchase very much. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of Sonny Sahib] Reference
I was left with just forty-seven francs — that is, seven and tenpence. From Wordnik.com. [Down and Out in Paris and London] Reference
FOR THREE-AND-TWENTY WEEKS RUNNING, making two shillings and tenpence-halfpenny. From Wordnik.com. [The Fatal Boots] Reference
That is right, and so it shall this next Tuesday, although it costs you tenpence. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal to Stella] Reference
After all, I have spent tenpence on him and the stamp represents another threepence. From Wordnik.com. [My Bones Will Keep]
When I first settled down there, labourers were working at eightpence or tenpence a day. From Wordnik.com. [The Reminiscences of an Irish Land Agent] Reference
This is explained as meaning that "tenpenny" nails, for example, cost tenpence a hundred. From Wordnik.com. [Handwork in Wood] Reference
He owned a paperback copy of the book, bought at a car-boot sale on The Meadows for tenpence. From Wordnik.com. [Strip Jack]
We get 4 dollars 80 cents only for the sovereign here, being tenpence short of the five dollars. From Wordnik.com. [A Lady's Life on a Farm in Manitoba] Reference
Day dawned she had but tenpence for all her store -- and the riband would cost as many shillings. From Wordnik.com. [The White Riband A Young Female's Folly] Reference
The cabbage, for example, cost tenpence in the normal course of things, and a cauliflower a shilling. From Wordnik.com. [Kangaroo] Reference
This would give, in English money, seven shillings and tenpence, being less than two shillings a week. From Wordnik.com. [A Tramp's Wallet stored by an English goldsmith during his wanderings in Germany and France] Reference
Food in the beleaguered town was still moderate in price, meat being tenpence a pound and bread threepence. From Wordnik.com. [South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 2 (of 6) From the Commencement of the War to the Battle of Colenso, 15th Dec. 1899] Reference
Women, and plenty to spare, are found to toil under the sweat-shop masters for tenpence a day of fourteen hours. From Wordnik.com. [A VISION OF THE NIGHT] Reference
After thinking over Archie's letter, I counted what I put by and I have one pound, seven shillings, and tenpence. From Wordnik.com. [The Narrative of Gordon Sellar Who Emigrated to Canada in 1825] Reference
Received a letter in rhyme from a John Pooley, who ran me tenpence further in debt, as I had not money to pay the postage. From Wordnik.com. [Life and Remains of John Clare "The Northamptonshire Peasant Poet"] Reference
Beef is tenpence to thirteenpence a pound, mutton about the same, bacon tenpence, pork tenpence, chickens four and twopence each. From Wordnik.com. [A Lady's Life on a Farm in Manitoba] Reference
"A peseta," said he, (about tenpence sterling,) "for every man who presents himself this evening with a sound pair of alpargatas.". From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 358, August 1845] Reference
He sold those flowers in penny bunches and got tenpence. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of the Treasure Seekers] Reference
"The fare to London is one pound five and tenpence ha'penny.". From Wordnik.com. [The Holiday Round] Reference
They save up three and tenpence in a red tin letterbox moneybox. From Wordnik.com. [Ulysses] Reference
There was in it one pound eight shillings and tenpence halfpenny. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Trust: Being a Narrative of the Lord's Dealings With George Müller] Reference
There was exactly twenty-eight shillings and tenpence in her purse. From Wordnik.com. [Blind Love] Reference
Mermaid (but when we got inside she was dead), a penny, one and tenpence. From Wordnik.com. [Jackanapes] Reference
I'll wager tenpence to California that you get six very unsatisfactory answers. From Wordnik.com. [My Novel — Complete] Reference
Mutton that before cost ninepence would cost tenpence a pound, and the mouths to be fed would demand more meat. From Wordnik.com. [The Eustace Diamonds] Reference
She made a little calculation -- she had twenty-eight and tenpence; exactly thirty-five francs -- enough for seven days. From Wordnik.com. [Blind Love] Reference
One hundred and seventeen shillings at tenpence a thousand is one hundred and forty thousand words at fourteen hundred words an hour. From Wordnik.com. [Complete Plays of John Galsworthy] Reference
"Yu don 'mean to say yu've a-catched all they lovely fish!" she said with a rheumy twinkle, in the hope of getting them for tenpence. From Wordnik.com. [A Poor Man's House] Reference
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