"The tittle-tattle in these twopenny-halfpenny villages is almost past believing!" he exclaimed angrily.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Vision of Desire] 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

"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

To call that grand if barren promontory after a twopenny-halfpenny Dutch cockle-shell is a gross insult to the thousands of miles of sea between that point and any other land.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Confessions of a Caricaturist, Vol 2 (of 2)] Reference

The smallest clerkships, twopenny-halfpenny postmasterships in unheard-of villages -- all, all that can be dispensed with, must make way for the friends of the incomers to power.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lands of the Slave and the Free Cuba, the United States, and Canada] Reference

She obtained nothing there, however, which was of the smallest use to her, except a dozen twopenny-halfpenny stamps, which she put into her handbag before going northwards towards the main road.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Dancing Druids]

If you love him enough to trust him with the whole of the rest of your life, you can surely trust him over a twopenny-halfpenny little secret which, after all, has nothing in the world to do with you.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Splendid Folly] Reference

Some changes have been forced upon us; little things which they had forgotten — quite minor matters; and they now say that they will be obliged to divide against us on these twopenny-halfpenny, hair-splitting points.    From Wordnik.com.  [Framley Parsonage] Reference

Don't let any twopenny-halfpenny considerations of worldly advantage influence you, or the tittle-tattle of other folks, and even if it seems that something unsurmountable lies between you and the fulfillment of love, go over it, or round it, or through it!.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hermit of Far End] Reference

Don't let any twopenny-halfpenny considerations of worldly advantage influence you, nor the tittle-tattle of other folks, and even if it seems that something insurmountable lies between you and the fulfillment of love, go over it, or round it, or through it!.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hermit of Far End] Reference

'All that is twopenny-halfpenny pride, which should be thrown to the winds.    From Wordnik.com.  [He Knew He Was Right] Reference

Can you fancy a twopenny-halfpenny baroness of King Francis's time patronising.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Newcomes] Reference

"You are always full of twopenny-halfpenny mysteries," and he continued his walk.    From Wordnik.com.  [Colonel Quaritch, V.C. A Tale of Country Life] Reference

No man in his senses would place a diamond inside a twopenny-halfpenny puzzle box.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lock and Key Library Classic Mystery and Detective Stories: Modern English] Reference

How is any one to believe in her fortune if she dresses in that twopenny-halfpenny fashion?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hopes and Fears or, scenes from the life of a spinster] Reference

(ordinarily ornamented with willow-pattern crockery) with twopenny-halfpenny Birmingham plate.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of Snobs] Reference

The fact was he was giving it hot to the twopenny-halfpenny painters, the men with the usurped reputations!.    From Wordnik.com.  [His Masterpiece] Reference

He's got some twopenny-halfpenny job in the medical at Alexandria -- sanitary officer or something like that.    From Wordnik.com.  [Moon and Sixpence] Reference

"Pay Griffiths's twopenny-halfpenny account to-morrow," I said, "and tell him that he has lost our patronage for ever.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Eliza] Reference

T.ese are the wrongs which Mr.W. T. Stead has described as 'the twopenny-halfpenny grievances of a handful of Englishmen.'.    From Wordnik.com.  [The War in South Africa Its Cause and Conduct] Reference

"I've found my razors," he said, looking up, "and every twopenny-halfpenny thing out of my traveling bag; but the papers, of course, are nowhere.".    From Wordnik.com.  [We Two, a novel] Reference

Here's every common, twopenny-halfpenny Malay looking down upon my fellows, while there isn't one among my lads who isn't a better man than their Rajah.    From Wordnik.com.  [Trapped by Malays A Tale of Bayonet and Kris] Reference

I was nobbled one day, without a moment's warning, on a twopenny-halfpenny charge of burglary -- never you mind whether it was true, or whether it was false -- that ain't worth going into.    From Wordnik.com.  [Run to Earth A Novel] Reference

They have produced greater minds when, the mass of their countrymen were steeped in brutality, and Elizabethan surfeit of beef and ale, than they will ever produce with a twopenny-halfpenny universal education.    From Wordnik.com.  [Doctor Claudius, A True Story] Reference

Some changes have been forced upon us; little things which they had forgotten -- quite minor matters; and they now say that they will be obliged to divide against us on these twopenny-halfpenny, hair-splitting points.    From Wordnik.com.  [Framley Parsonage] Reference

He spoke in the privacy of his family with a half-affable, half-contemptuous concern for those unfortunate beggars of uppish Redcross townspeople who had all come to smash by the failure of one paltry twopenny-halfpenny local bank.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Houseful of Girls] Reference

‘All that is twopenny-halfpenny pride, which should be thrown to the winds.    From Wordnik.com.  [He Knew He Was Right] Reference

Can you fancy a twopenny-halfpenny baroness of King Francis’s time patronising Bayard?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Newcomes] Reference

But it might have been worse, "he added;" why, the fugitive might have been the Prince himself, instead of this twopenny-halfpenny spy! ".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Slowcoach] Reference

However, I suppose you would, and so we're all to be offered up on the altar of this twopenny-halfpenny promise you've made to Dr. Selwyn? ".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hermit of Far End] Reference

Just a twopenny-halfpenny handkercher that her Tom would be ashamed to wear! ".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Carbonels] Reference

He's only a twopenny-halfpenny doctor, and hasn't got a decent patient in all his practice. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fortune of the Rougons] Reference

It is only little clerks and twopenny-halfpenny swells that deceive girls with promises of marriage, and these you must avoid; but a real gentleman always begins by giving something, and him you may listen to. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [A Hungarian Nabob] Reference

A twopenny-halfpenny affair between man and man?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Literary Taste: How to Form It With Detailed Instructions for Collecting a Complete Library of English Literature] Reference

"As if that twopenny-halfpenny pendant of.    From Wordnik.com.  [In Brief Authority] Reference