How To Use fourpence In A Sentence
- They were well paid, as much as fourpence being given for a good cock-crower (in 'The Trial of Christ'), while the part of God was worth three and fourpence: no contemptible sums at a time when a quart of wine cost twopence and a goose threepence. The Growth of English Drama
- In the tenth century a kitten in England was worth one penny, or fourpence if a proven mouser.
- The purchasing value of the peseta was about fourpence. [back] 14. Homage to Catalonia
- Downstairs a front seat on the wooden benches cost fourpence and twopence at the rear.
- I had read about doss-houses (they are never called doss-houses, by the way), and I supposed that one could get a bed for fourpence or thereabouts. Down and Out in Paris and London
- When she'd finished collecting ha'pennies, she had exactly fourpence. The Gates Of Sleep
- When she'd finished collecting ha'pennies, she had exactly fourpence. The Gates Of Sleep
- Apart from my fourpence a week, his brothers likewise never ever saw a penny from him.
- She was free enough with her information as well -- told me her name, and how many children she had, and that she paid three-and-fourpence the yard for her perpetuance gown. It Might Have Been The Story of the Gunpowder Plot
- Come me little washer lad, come let's away, We're bound down to slavery for fourpence a day.