How To Use Farthing In A Sentence
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She could feel underclothes, linen drawers, silken chemise, a farthingale with its stiffened hoops.
Ill Met By Moonlight
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With its two commons, Steeple Fritton was shaped much like a penny-farthing bicycle, Posy had decided in childhood.
TICKLED PINK
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For one farthing, given to a poor man in alms, a man is made partaker of the beatifical vision.
From the Talmud and Hebraica
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Izumi was standing in the middle of vast darkness, so dark that not even a farthing of dust or any particle could be seen.
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Penny-farthings, tricycles and scooters can be seen in this section.
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For example, the black veil and the farthingale, or guardainfante (the rigid framework of iron hoops to support large, stiff skirts), worn by the sitter were typical of but not exclusive to Spanish fashion.
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Court for being four days without dining with him; so I dined there to-day, and he has at last fallen in with my project (as he calls it) of coining halfpence and farthings, with devices, like medals, in honour of the Queen, every year changing the device.
The Journal to Stella
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But they did not care a farthing about defeat, to which they became accustomed.
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The farthing was a small coin used in Judea, equal to two mites.
Barnes New Testament Notes
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Teuton" or the "Slav" he will give his last farthing and shed his heart's blood.
The New World of Islam
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The half-penny and farthing would gradually be replaced by a half-cent and quarter-cent.
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We didn't save the groat, the guinea or the farthing, and thrive without them.
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The ancestor of the modern bicycle is called a penny farthing.
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By next February, the punt and the penny will be going the way of the farthing and half crown, becoming curios and museum pieces.
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Back in 1698, the mill was used to forge copper blacks for the Royal Mint to strike farthings and halfpennies.
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They don't care a farthing about other peoples' feelings.
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There were farthings, pennies, oxfords, crowns, florins, shillings, guineas, and pounds, among other divisions.
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Once Robert is practicing, he'll be able to support a wife, and then Mr. Farthingale will capitulate because he won't have any choice.
ALL ABOUT LOVE
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“Would you have your fair greyhound, dear lady, grow up a tall and true Cotswold dog, that can pull down a stag of ten, or one of those smooth-skinned poppets which the Florence ladies lead about with a ring of bells round its neck, and a flannel farthingale over its loins?”
Westward Ho!
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The ancestor of the modern bicycle was called a penny farthing.
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There is now not the slightest ground for hoping we ever shall obtain a farthing from the cottage at Honington.
Letter 378
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With a range of furnishings, from chiffonier, davenport and farthingale chairs to fauteuil and ottomans, aesthetes can choose from wide range at the exhibition.
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You don't give a farthing for any of the characters, and so the work, whatever its commercial value, is artistically nil.
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With a range of furnishings, from chiffonier, davenport and farthingale chairs to fauteuil and ottomans, aesthetes can choose from a wide range at the exhibition.
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She ran her best race to date at Galway six days ago when powering through late to finish two lengths second behind Penny Farthing in a competitive handicap.
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A plain white chemise slithered over her form, draping to her ankles, with the multiple petticoats and the flexibly hooped farthingale over it.
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Then he fetched a pot of milk and plenty of white bread, gave him a bright newly-coined farthing in his hand, and said, “Hans, hold that farthing fast, crumble the white bread into the milk, and stay where you are, and do not stir from that spot till I come back.”
Household Tales
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I even remember counting farthings, four to a penny, as well as ha'pennies and half crowns.
Broken Music, A Memoir
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The programme of sports included a popular penny-farthing race, which was won by a man from Bawtry for the third year in succession.
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The industrious application of the smallest copper coin procurable, the humble farthing or the halfpenny, speedily converted the most insignificant abrasion of the skin into a festering sore.
The Press-Gang Afloat and Ashore
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And Gertrude retaliates in kind when she punningly and pithily retorts: ‘We shall as soon get a fart from a dead man as a farthing of courtesy here.’
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In the 1860s a front-wheel-drive machine was manufactured - the bone-shaker - and in subsequent decades the front wheel became larger until the penny-farthing had developed.
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He takes us from the French pushbike of 1816 through boneshakers and penny-farthings to the English velocipedes and the Humbers of the 1880s.
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He takes us from the French pushbike or draisine of 1816 through boneshakers and penny-farthings to the English velocipedes and the Humbers of the 1880s.
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The ambassador was not dissatisfied with the impression he had made on one of the foreign correspondents of the "Chuck-Farthing," and the minister flattered himself that both the literary and the graphic representations of himself in "Scaramouch" might possibly for the future be mitigated.
Endymion
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He takes us from the French pushbike or draisine of 1816 through boneshakers and penny-farthings to the English velocipedes of the 1880s.
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The famous bankruptcy sale in Tite Street after the Ruskin trial and a farthing damages.
WHISTLER IN THE DARK
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“I believe on my word,” said the page, approaching the window also, “it was in that very farthingale that she captivated the heart of gentle King Jamie, which procured our poor Queen her precious bargain of a brother.”
The Abbot
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Pennies were cut in half and quartered into farthings, but were never to become numerous enough or of low enough value to function as ‘small change’ during this period.
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However, there were also crowns, farthings, guineas and sovereigns, all in varying amounts and none really compatible with any of the others.
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I threw the last of my farthings at some very grateful peasants and while they squabbled over them, I headed off alongside the unenclosed fields towards the sun's afternoon aurora.
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Gladstone will be the better pleased, and take another farthing off 'divi-divi,' or some other commodity in general use and of universal appreciation.
Cornelius O'Dowd Upon Men And Women And Other Things In General
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As soon as Mr Norton found I had this legacy, and six months before I received one farthing from it, he wrote that he could no longer pay me the sum secured (as I imagined) by the deed of agreement we both had signed; and he begged to inquire what deduction I myself would propose in my allowance, – "such deduction to commence from the time that I should receive any money under my mother's will.
English Laws for Women in the Nineteenth Century
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During that period, he said, there was a national shortage of small-denomination half penny and farthing coins - so many local towns and even tradesmen took to minting their own tokens.
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At the same time, to clear his way, and the better to enable him to take a good mark, he gave James Batter a shove, that made him stoiter against the wall, and snacked the good new farthing tobacco-pipe, that James was taking his first whiff out of; crying, at the same blessed moment -- "Hold out o 'my road, ye long withered wabster.
The Life of Mansie Wauch Tailor in Dalkeith, written by himself
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In Spain, the farthingale and excessive décolletage were proscribed for all but licensed prostitutes in 1639.
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Catherine Seyton presently exclaimed, “They were bearing the dishes across the court, marshalled by the Lady Lochleven herself, dressed out in her highest and stiffest ruff, with her partlet and sleeves of cyprus, and her huge old-fashioned farthingale of crimson velvet.”
The Abbot
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I stare at them as I am laced into my corset and hoop-skirted farthingale.
Secret History of Elizabeth Tudor, Vampire Slayer
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They were struggling with a Spanish farthingale and trying to attach it to an uncooperative novice.
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It is the smallest Egyptian coin, made of very base metal and, there being forty to the piastre, it is worth nearly a quarter of a farthing.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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Persons of fashion had, by the way, the advantage formerly of being better distinguished from the vulgar than at present; for, what the ancient farthingale and more modern hoop were to court ladies, the sword was to the gentleman; an article of dress, which only rendered those ridiculous who assumed it for the nonce, without being in the habit of wearing it.
The Fortunes of Nigel
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In the end, I had to put a farthing on the lid to keep it decently shut.
IRONCROWN MOON: PART TWO OF THE BOREAL MOON TALE
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Since the nego was a unit of English currency worth about three to the farthing, we can determine that the seller is asking for roughly two groat, one quarter ryal, and ha'penny, which in modern-day US$ is approximately sixteen cents.
Passing Judgment: Platitudes, Pictures, and Patches
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There were also the lovely old bikes, penny farthings and boneshakers being pedalled around.
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The ancestor of the modern bicycle was called a penny farthing.
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A party of five people -- the husbands, the son of one of them, and the two women came along the boreen, guided by the dim light of the farthing dip which is the only light the Irish farmer has yet been able to use.
Donahoe's Magazine, Volume 15, No. 2, February 1886
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Ring and all, they have no market value; for a farthing is the least coin in our currency.
A Relic
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Have they, then, expended a single farthing on the improvement of that river?
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There were farthings, pennies, oxfords, crowns, florins, shillings, guineas, and pounds, among other divisions.
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There were farthings, pennies, oxfords, crowns, florins, shillings, guineas, and pounds, among other divisions.
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He was struggling for every farthing of his share (and he could not help it, for he had only to relax his efforts, and he would not have had the money to pay his laborers 'wages), while they were only struggling to be able to do their work easily and agreeably, that is to say, as they were used to doing it.
Anna Karenina
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This piece of wit incensed my friend to such a degree, that he called the blacksmith scoundrel, and protested he would fight him for half-a-farthing.
The Adventures of Roderick Random
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I won't analyse it as it bores me enough but I calculate it's perhaps just about on a penny-farthing.
Brown is beginning to panic
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It features such useful information as "a farthing is so small that it's only used nowadays by the dwarfs.
A lesson in British currency from Uncle
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The penny piece is now worth less in real terms than either the farthing or the decimal halfpenny when they were withdrawn from circulation.
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Hey, think we can convince the idjits that the penny-farthing is the new fixie?
Rest-Day Roundup: Stealing Seconds and Stealing Bikes
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Deville, this month-old East Village restaurant underwent a three-month renovation to give it a rustic feel, harking back to the late Victorian era when the penny-farthing bicycle was popular.
Reinventing the Wheel
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Another of Sir William Petty's helps in the arithmetic of population was the Chimney Tax, a revival of the old fumage or hearth-money -- smoke farthings, as the people called them -- once paid, according to
Essays on Mankind and Political Arithmetic
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Well, you can have two; but, if you will buy two farthingsworth, I will _throw the odd one in for nothing_ '.
Standards of Life and Service
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However, there were also crowns, farthings, guineas and sovereigns, all in varying amounts and none really compatible with any of the others.
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Lord Treasurer quarrelled with me at Court for being four days without dining with him; so I dined there to-day, and he has at last fallen in with my project (as he calls it) of coining halfpence and farthings, with devices, like medals, in honour of the Queen, every year changing the device.
The Journal to Stella
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Gene Smith from KoolStop found penny-farthing planters on closeout for $99 each and bought 16 of them, some which adorn his home, office, trade show booths in the U.S. as well as in Europe.
A touch of gold
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Mikeweb @ 2:44, that reminds me - in central park yesterday I saw a fellow atop a penny-farthing in full period kit like these guys.
Cycling Customs: Flashing the Biological Passport
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A bell with an old voice — which I dare say in its time had often said to the house, Here is the green farthingale, Here is the diamond – hilted sword, Here are the shoes with red heels and the blue solitaire — sounded gravely in the moonlight, and two cherry – colored maids came fluttering out to receive Estella.
Great Expectations
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Mr. Farthing is among a number of soldiers who had informally adopted stray dogs during their tours of duty for what he calls therapeutic value.
Activist Works to Rescue Stray Dogs in Afghanistan
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Behind Arnold Farthing he saw another man: sleek, immaculate, with one of those shining well-barbered chins you usually associate with wealth in the City.
Final Resting Place of The Pen
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At just that moment, a man wearing a three-piece-suit and a beret pedals by on a penny-farthing.
July 4th, Austin, TX
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Renovation work at the Blenheim Road school has also unearthed an old shilling and a farthing hidden behind the children's coat pegs.
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Well what do I get for my six pence and three farthings?
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The penny piece is now worth less in real terms than either the farthing or the decimal halfpenny when they were withdrawn from circulation.
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He was struggling for every farthing of his share (and he could not help it, for he had only to relax his efforts, and he would not have had the money to pay his laborers wages), while they were only struggling to be able to do their work easily and agreeably, that is to say, as they were used to doing it.
Chapter XXIV. Part III
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Nestled inside, laying on a cushion of cloth, lay a medallion about the size of a farthing.
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The Farthing Office was a part of the Mint and Charles II had introduced, in 1672, the copper half-penny and farthing with the Britannia type.
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I am afraid the penny-farthing fad may end before it begins.
Penny-Ante: The Ordinary Trend Moves Up a Notch
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Back in 1698, the mill was used to forge copper blacks for the Royal Mint to strike farthings and halfpennies.
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Prior to decimalization, the pound was divided into twenty shillings, each shilling into twelve pennies and each penny into four farthings.
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He is a man having neither credit nor reserve, nor a single farthing in his possession.
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The natives are a leathery, insouciant people; well-heeled women in suggestive topcloths parade around the avenues like so many cockled peacocks, and the men are as manicured as the Egyptians, a tribe of smellsmocks and pinchfarthings jockeying for attention.
I search the horizon...
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Treasurer quarrelled with me at Court for being four days without dining with him; so I dined there to-day, and he has at last fallen in with my project (as he calls it) of coining halfpence and farthings, with devices, like medals, in honour of the Queen, every year changing the device.
The Journal to Stella
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The shekel is here settled (v. 13); it is twenty jerahs, just half a Roman ounce, in our money 2s. 4 1/4d. and almost the eighth part of a farthing, as the aforesaid learned man exactly computes it.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)
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Prior to decimalization, the pound was divided into twenty shillings, each shilling into twelve pennies and each penny into four farthings.
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There were also the lovely old bikes, penny farthings and boneshakers being pedalled around.
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Edward I carried out a grand recoinage in 1279-80, minting new coins, silver halfpennies and farthings, to remove the need to cut, and a fourpence groat, which was not at first successful.
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Commons deputy to the Duke of Omnium in carrying out his great scheme of a five-farthinged penny and a ten-pennied shilling.
Phineas Redux
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This old clock is not worth a farthing.
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The silver farthing was worth a quarter of a penny.
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Only it having been always accounted a very rational and allowed way, to judge what may be by what has been, you may remember that about forty years since this word popery served such as brandish it about the ears of the government now, as an effectual engine to pull down the monarchy to the ground, to destroy episcopacy root and branch, and to rob the church, and almost all honest men, to the last farthing.
Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. IV.
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I was also pleased to see that the rider was on a cyclocross bike and that penny-farthing craze has not yet reached Missoula, which means that while we may see more and more of them in the coming months it should be a good while before the trend moves into its ironic phase.
Archive 2008-11-01
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He was in such absolute dependence as to be without a farthing of his own.
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I'd better warn you they put every farthing of tuppence on neatness here, so mind you shove everything back when you're done with it.
CHALLENGE FOR THE CHALET SCHOOL
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Whistler won, but was bankrupted after the judge awarded him only one farthing's damages and told him to pay the costs of the trial.
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This was in the mid-seventies when the sight of brothel creepers, fluorescent socks, drape coats and drainpipe trousers was as outrageous as seeing a man ride down the street on a penny farthing.
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British cyclists likened the disparity in size of the two wheels to their coinage, nicknaming it the penny-farthing.
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The funny thing is that the cable TV company has never realized that the boxing public won't pay a farthing to see Jones do anything.
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In England they have a piece they call a farthing, which is about half a cent.
Island Nights' Entertainments
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The verdict went in favour of the companies, though with derisory damages of one farthing.
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Anybody who slogs through the first five pages of it knows perfectly well the book cares not a farthing for ideas; it's entertainment.
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Catherine Seyton presently exclaimed, “They were bearing the dishes across the court, marshalled by the Lady Lochleven herself, dressed out in her highest and stiffest ruff, with her partlet and sleeves of cyprus, and her huge old-fashioned farthingale of crimson velvet.”
The Abbot
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From St. Mark's explanation, "two mites, which make a farthing," ver. 42, it may perhaps be inferred that the farthing was the commoner coin.
Smith's Bible Dictionary
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Scrap-farthingi de botchandis glossae Accursianae Triflis repetitio enucidi-luculidissima.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
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The penny was further sub-divided into two halfpennies or four farthings
Old English money for the easily confused
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`You'll find a terry cloth robe with the Farthinggale Manor emblem on it in your closet," he gestured.
WEB OF DREAMS
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Mr Bonteen had been appointed chiefly because it was thought that he might in that office act as a quasi House of Commons deputy to the Duke of Omnium in carrying out his great scheme of a five-farthinged penny and a ten-pennied shilling.
Phineas Redux
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Young lads would then get a few farthings for catching dungflies and mayflies.
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The silver farthing was worth a quarter of a penny.
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A liard is a farthing french, and of the value of half a farthing english.
The Stranger in France or, a Tour from Devonshire to Paris Illustrated by Engravings in Aqua Tint of Sketches Taken on the Spot.
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Ivy Island was an inaccessible piece of barren land, not worth a farthing.
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Once Robert is practicing, he'll be able to support a wife, and then Mr. Farthingale will capitulate because he won't have any choice.
ALL ABOUT LOVE
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He showed examples of some of the first minted Thai coins, which were actually modelled on the English farthing.
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However, there were also crowns, farthings, guineas and sovereigns, all in varying amounts and none really compatible with any of the others.
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With a range of furnishings, from chiffonier, davenport and farthingale chairs to fauteuil and ottomans, aesthetes can choose from wide range at the exhibition.
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We did not disdain the word in farthingale = pet en air.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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Refusing to permit anything to interfere with my warm, vibrant, and exciting feelings, I laughed at what I called my foolish imagination and ran from the room, my own laughter trickling behind and finally shut away behind the bedroom doors to linger in the shadows with all the other ghost sounds that haunted Farthinggale Manor.
Fallen Hearts
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Armour; brasses of ladies, with their little dogs at their feet and dresses which show the changes in fashion from century to century and make clear all the mysteries of kirtles and cotte-hardies, wimples and partlets and farthingales and the head-dresses appropriate to each successive mode.
Medieval People
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It all seems authentic, from the shillings, farthings and halfpennies, to the presses on display in the stationers.
Times, Sunday Times
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A patent was given to Wood permitting him to coin halfpence and farthings to the value of one hundred and eight thousand pounds.
A History of the Four Georges, Volume I (of 4)
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The penny piece is now worth less in real terms than either the farthing or the decimal halfpenny when they were withdrawn from circulation.
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It's full of 'Prisoner' imagery - the ID buttons, human chess games, particular location shots, KAR120C, a penny-farthing bicycle, and even Rover makes an appearance!
Archive 2009-01-11
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For God does not consider how much ye bear, but what is the store from which it comes; but each at all events can bring his farthing, that is, a ready will, which is called a farthing, because it is accompanied by three things, that is, thought, word and deed.
Catena Aurea - Gospel of Mark
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Her husband -- ten years deceased -- had been a 'moulder'; he earned on an average between three and four pounds a week, and was so prudently disposed that, for the last decade of his life, he made it a rule never to spend a farthing of his wages.
The Nether World
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It has been a difficult struggle for a group which began life without two farthings to rub together.
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The ancestor of the modern bicycle was called a penny farthing.
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The present-day style of bicycle was rapidly replacing their penny-farthing bicycle during the 1890s.
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A farthing a day is seven shillings a year, answered the M.P.; seven shillings a year is the interest of seven guineas.
VII. Crawley of Queen’s Crawley
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In the time of Samuel Pepys one farthing was worth roughly the same as a 10p coin would be today (you can compare monetary values since 1264 here).
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But what he had taken at first for raindrops on the wagon floor were actually pennies, halfpennies and farthings scattered everywhere.
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I even remember counting farthings, four to a penny, as well as ha'pennies and half crowns.
Broken Music, A Memoir
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And the blight has also reached our nation's capital or the general vicinity anyway, where at least one person has been forced to sell his penny-farthing:
The Party's Over: Derailed by the Economy
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However, there were also crowns, farthings, guineas and sovereigns, all in varying amounts and none really compatible with any of the others.
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Not a farthing is the value of the honest love you hold;
In the Days When the World Was Wide and Other Verses
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There were farthings, pennies, oxfords, crowns, florins, shillings, guineas, and pounds, among other divisions.
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The Marie Antoinette-styled skirt (think farthingale hips and a little bustle in the bum) had a train and was beaded with crystals as well.
Qdiosa Diary Entry
