You must buy a small twopenny pamphlet, called Law is a. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal to Stella] Reference
"A twopenny-ha'penny report of a twopenny-ha'penny meeting," replied. From Wordnik.com. [Grey Town An Australian Story] Reference
The daily press informs us that we are "in sight of the twopenny egg.". From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, March 12, 1919] Reference
‘And pray, Sam, what is the twopenny rope?’ inquired Mr. Pickwick. From Wordnik.com. [The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club] Reference
Loaves the size of the twopenny loaves will want 1-1/2 hours in a hot oven. From Wordnik.com. [Dr. Allinson's cookery book Comprising many valuable vegetarian recipes] Reference
When I was a child I went to the twopenny travelling theatre to see Hamlet. From Wordnik.com. [Twilight in Italy] Reference
If I offer him a cigar, he smokes it as if it were a twopenny German thing. From Wordnik.com. [The Man of Property] Reference
A dozen of bread was also divided into six twopenny, or twelve penny loaves. From Wordnik.com. [Notes and Queries, Number 49, October 5, 1850] Reference
At the best it was a twopenny affair, and never occupied my mind five minutes. From Wordnik.com. [Vailima Letters] Reference
Government office; to which duty he trudges daily, refusing even twopenny omnibuses. From Wordnik.com. [Our Street] Reference
He then put it again into the bottle, together with a silver twopenny piece of 1772. From Wordnik.com. [Narrative of the Voyages Round The World, Performed by Captain James Cook] Reference
In real wars, mind you, not your twopenny ha'penny Bombardment of Alexandria business!. From Wordnik.com. [Young Tom Bowling The Boys of the British Navy] Reference
We have long been used to twopenny meals, but of course much more was charged for them. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, October 24, 1917] Reference
Among other matters he had looked into penny stamps, twopenny stamps, and other stamps. From Wordnik.com. [John Caldigate] Reference
Dodger — the Artful Dodger — going abroad for a common twopenny – halfpenny sneeze – box!. From Wordnik.com. [Oliver Twist] Reference
Furruckabad, alias Futtyghur — it is, as every twopenny postman knows, at the apex of the Dooab. From Wordnik.com. [Burlesques] Reference
AMELIA should take her "twopenny mulready envelope" to a shop where stamps are sold for collections. From Wordnik.com. [The Girl's Own Paper, Vol. VIII: No. 353, October 2, 1886.] Reference
"The tittle-tattle in these twopenny-halfpenny villages is almost past believing!" he exclaimed angrily. From Wordnik.com. [The Vision of Desire] Reference
At a smart walk he made for the tube station, bought a ticket at the twopenny machine and entered the lift. From Wordnik.com. [Men of Affairs] Reference
The First Commissioner of Oaths states that "twopenny damns" will, until further notice, be eight-pence each. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, April 16, 1919] Reference
He drank from the measure of "mild beer" (twopenny), for which he will call in preference to any other liquid. From Wordnik.com. [Edward FitzGerald and "Posh" "Herring Merchants"] Reference
I mean, you won't let any twopenny-halfpenny little chorus-girl, or ... or girl out of a shop come in, will you?. From Wordnik.com. [The Making of a Soul] Reference
Slits into the soul; through which you peered, as in a twopenny peepshow, at clandestine and unedifying happenings. From Wordnik.com. [Ultima Thule] Reference
"The big coal-scuttle really doesn't hold twopenny-worth more coal than the others," observed Miss Bunting tentatively. From Wordnik.com. [The Splendid Folly] Reference
I have taken possession of my bedroom, unpacked my bandbox, sent Miss P. 's two letters to the twopenny post, been visited by. From Wordnik.com. [Jane Austen, Her Life and Letters A Family Record] Reference
"At more leisur'd times he makes disticks on noblemen which are put under their twopenny pictures that hang in the bookbinders 'shops.". From Wordnik.com. [Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters] Reference
These worthy fellows (and they are too fine a lot of men to be disbanded by any twopenny Radical Government) traced the boat to Harwich. From Wordnik.com. [Edward FitzGerald and "Posh" "Herring Merchants"] Reference
"Ah, take care, take care, Hadria; that is a mood in which one may mistake any twopenny-halfpenny little luminary for the impossible moon.". From Wordnik.com. [The Daughters of Danaus] Reference
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