How To Use eightpenny In A Sentence
- Finally she slapped on the table two ‘large teas’ and four slices of bread and dripping — that is, eightpenny-worth of food. Down and Out in Paris and London
- I asked Papi why they are called tenpenny, eightpenny, an' sixpenny darters, an' he said it was 'cause they looked like nails an' that nails used to be sold by the pennyweight. The Celebrated Jumping Flippit of Tau-Ceti IV
- Even on ordinary days those low-ceiled dining-rooms, stretching far back from the street in a complicated vista of interiors, were apt to be crowded; for the quality of the eightpenny dinner could be relied upon. Clayhanger
- His lordship is meekly going to dine at an eightpenny ordinary, his giants in pawn, his men in armor dwindled to “one poor knight,” his carriage to be sold, his stalwart aldermen vanished, his sheriffs, alas! and alas! in gaol! George Cruikshank
- This, I presume," he remarked, "is not where you serve the eightpenny table d'hote? The Yellow Crayon
- Finally she slapped on the table two large teas and four slices of bread and drippingthat is, eightpenny-worth of food. Down and Out in Paris and London
- An eight-shilling meal stands out, among eightpenny teas, as a rare extravagance .... Anthony Lyveden
- In the eightpenny dormitories the beds are comfortable, but there are so many of them (as a rule at least forty to a room), and so close together, that it is impossible to get a quiet night. Down and Out in Paris and London
- It was when you told me to put the eightpenny scuttle in Miss The Splendid Folly