Kristen www.inkthinker.blogspot.com threepenny said. From Wordnik.com. [Finding an editor] Reference
Along with the threepenny bit it was my favourite coin. From Wordnik.com. [London, 4 | clusterflock] Reference
She lost Gs like some people lose silver threepenny bits. From Wordnik.com. [Bottled Spider]
Purdy had not cared a threepenny-bit one way or the other. From Wordnik.com. [The Way Home] Reference
I bought a threepenny piece from them and phoned the office. From Wordnik.com. [Funeral In Berlin]
But catch him asking the loan of a threepenny bit of any man!. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly , Vol. 2 No. 5, November 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference
'What ha' ye dune wi 'the threepenny-bit ye stole this morning?'. From Wordnik.com. [Despair's Last Journey] Reference
With my threepenny provision I've maintained and cherished long. From Wordnik.com. [Mosaics of Grecian History] Reference
Papa gave them each a threepenny bit, too, to spend as they liked. From Wordnik.com. [Ultima Thule] Reference
The lenses are whittled-down spectacle lenses from a threepenny stall. From Wordnik.com. [The Vatican Rip]
There were nine half-pennies, three pennies, a threepenny bit and a sixpence. From Wordnik.com. [An Australian Lassie] Reference
'A poor parish! two threepenny bits and five and twenty farthings -- the whole show!. From Wordnik.com. [Selected Polish Tales] Reference
He had arrived in Barchester with only a long-treasured threepenny piece in his pocket. From Wordnik.com. [Two Little Travellers A Story for Girls] Reference
Annie and Wee Jean waited in the queue clutching their threepenny bits for an ice cream. From Wordnik.com. [A Small Death in the Great Glen] Reference
"I keep the threepenny bits I collect in that, " she said, putting the money into her pocket. From Wordnik.com. [Five On A Hike Together]
In the bottom right, hand corner was an inky finger, print about the size of a threepenny, piece. From Wordnik.com. [The Sound of Thunder]
Hester produced a bright threepenny piece for each child, one of which was irretrievably buried in. From Wordnik.com. [Red Pottage] Reference
'The threepenny-bit your mother put on the clock-ledge, ye pelferin' vag'bond! 'said his father sternly. From Wordnik.com. [Despair's Last Journey] Reference
A threepenny piece is there called "a tickey," and till the troops arrived that was the lowest coin in use. From Wordnik.com. [With the Guards' Brigade from Bloemfontein to Koomati Poort and Back] Reference
At first they were about as large as a threepenny-piece, but ended by measuring more than two inches across. From Wordnik.com. [Wild Nature Won By Kindness] Reference
'Don't be afraid,' she growled with malice: 'he won't give you a threepenny bit, not so much as a farthing.'. From Wordnik.com. [Selected Polish Tales] Reference
The poorer classes besiege the stores on Saturday with anxious inquiries for 'stickeys,' i.e., threepenny-pieces. From Wordnik.com. [The Boer in Peace and War] Reference
A gentleman told us he once found a threepenny bit on the road near a village where he happened to be staying at the inn. From Wordnik.com. [From John O'Groats to Land's End] Reference
Ten thousand handbills were circulated, and six thousand copies of the threepenny pamphlet, in various editions, were sold. From Wordnik.com. [The History of "Punch"] Reference
Mr. Brooks was dickering with a local over a threepenny Virginia green from 1851, a rare and famous stamp in this alternate. From Wordnik.com. [The Disunited States of America] Reference
Their position is quite reasonable; nay, in a sense it is infinitely reasonable, just as a threepenny bit is infinitely circular. From Wordnik.com. [Orthodoxy] Reference
The generous lady, having searched several pockets before finding the necessary coin, bestowed on him a threepenny piece for his trouble!. From Wordnik.com. [Lazy Thoughts of a Lazy Girl Sister of that "Idle Fellow."] Reference
But after breakfast they started at once, Dick's jacket pockets stuffed full of provisions and the threepenny bit jingling merrily against. From Wordnik.com. [Dick Lionheart] Reference
Tim apologised for his moist finger and the threepenny bit. From Wordnik.com. [The Extra Day] Reference
Do you know how much that comes to, five hundred threepenny bits?. From Wordnik.com. [Demos] Reference
"I did give him a threepenny bit last week," Constance put in guiltily. From Wordnik.com. [The Old Wives' Tale] Reference
A kind heart might have put a threepenny-bit in his clenched little fist, and sighed. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of the Fields] Reference
There were prayer-books and things to find, threepenny bits and sixpences for the collection. From Wordnik.com. [The Extra Day] Reference
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