How To Use Halfpenny In A Sentence
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They also included a selection of threepenny bits, a 1916 halfpenny and a penny piece from 1921.
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Other possibilities include sumo-wrestling competitions, kayak races, tennis tournaments, water-skiing, tug-of-war, carome (a Mauritian version of shove-halfpenny) and petanque competitions, and so on.
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_Bread_, $1: for a family of five, for seven days, one dollar's worth of bread will give each a daily ration of 2.8 cents; and if they eat three meals a day, each may consume per meal 9.5 mills 'worth of bread, a little less than one halfpennyworth.
The People of the Abyss
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Prisoners' allowance was: debtors, three halfpennyworth of bread a day; felons, three halfpennyworth of bread and halfpenny in money every day (weight of threepenny loaf in January, 1775, 1lb. 14 ½ ounces); garnish prohibited.
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No 4.5d. a day per mouth for food is coming in; no halfpennyworth of bread per meal; and, at the end of the week, no six shillings for rent.
The People of the Abyss
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The hams and tongues seem, indeed, rather a poor halfpennyworth to this intolerable deal of sack; but this instance of Surinam privation in those days may open some glimpse at the colonial standards of comfort.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 31, May, 1860
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The penny piece is now worth less in real terms than either the farthing or the decimal halfpenny when they were withdrawn from circulation.
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They also included a selection of threepenny bits, a 1916 halfpenny and a penny piece from 1921.
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Having inspected the upper floors I descended to the basement, where what are called the 'Shelter men' are received at a separate entrance at 5.30 in the afternoon, and buying their penny or halfpennyworth of food, seat themselves on benches to eat.
Regeneration
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Newman Noggs did not say that he had hunted up the old furniture they saw, from attic and cellar; or that he had taken in the halfpennyworth of milk for tea that stood upon a shelf, or filled the rusty kettle on the hob, or collected the woodchips from the wharf, or begged the coals.
Nicholas Nickleby
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The favourite game of _shove-halfpenny_ was kept up till a late hour, when the party broke up highly delighted.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, November 27, 1841
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Political balance on the Employers' Organisation has shifted marginally in the Tories' favour, but ‘is not going to make a halfpennyworth of difference to negotiating positions’, says an official.
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They weren't allowed to go into the bars, but they would go and play shove halfpenny.
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A wooden target with one or two darts sticking in it hung on the end wall and invited the Robin Hoods of the village to try their skill; a system of incised marks on the oaken table made sinister suggestions of shove-halfpenny; and a large open box filled with white wigs, gaudily colored robes and wooden spears, swords and regalia, crudely coated with gilded paper, obviously appertained to the puerile ceremonials of the Order of Druids.
The Eye of Osiris
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In the public baths, where money was taken, each person paid a quadrans, about the value of our halfpenny, as Juvenal observes,
Travels through France and Italy
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A halfpenny was of course half a penny; a groat was worth fourpence; and a sixpence (popularly called a ‘tester’) was worth six pennies, or 6 d.
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Is it ethics - when did it influence your conduct in a twopenny-halfpenny affair between man and man?
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Political balance on the Employers' Organisation has shifted marginally in the Tories' favour, but ‘is not going to make a halfpennyworth of difference to negotiating positions’, says an official.
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In ever-increasing numbers, kids are being encouraged to box, golf, dance and climb, to play more cricket, football, tennis and, for all we know, shove-halfpenny, by a generation that has seen sport cannibalised into a grotesque commercial monster.
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I would have a halfpenny worth or a pennyworth — you may guess my surprize — but twopence is all I can have — many a worthier person wants that — why then should
Letter 40
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In any case the New Act should, if stringently administered, speedily put a stop to the too common and quite intolerable nuisance of young men and boys sprawling about the pavement, or in corners of the wharves by the waterside, and play ing at "pitch-and-toss, &" "shove-halfpenny, &" "Tommy Dodd, &" "coddams, &" and other games of chance.
The Gaming Table: Its Votaries and Victims, In All Times and Countries, especially in England and in France
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And, clad like a poor woman, she went to the fruiterer, to the grocer, to the butcher, a basket on her arm, haggling, insulted, fighting for every wretched halfpenny of her money.
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[863] A _bawbee_, the vulgar name for a halfpenny.
The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6)
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But, seen in the broad sunlight of his transcendent humor, this shadow is as the halfpennyworth of bread to his own noble ocean of sack, and why should we be forever trying to force it into prominence?
Masterpieces of American Wit and Humor
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As it is an open secret that Lord ROBERT CECIL has been polishing up his "shove-halfpenny" in the billiard-room of the Hotel Majestic interesting developments are anticipated.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, March 19, 1919
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For in those days a halfpenny seemed to us a little fortune.
Scottish Voices 1745-1960
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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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There is something naif and amusing in this exhibition of cheatery — this simple cringing and wheedling, and passion for twopence-halfpenny.
Notes of a Journey From Cornhill to Grand Cairo
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They go to the _gargottes_, where they get threepence halfpennyworth of bouilli — soup, beef and vegetable — which includes the title to a liberal supply of bread.
A Tramp's Wallet stored by an English goldsmith during his wanderings in Germany and France
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One halfpennyworth of the bread of incident to an intolerable deal of the sack of strained style and pessimist commentary, make poorish imaginative pabulum, though there seems an increasing appetite for it amongst those who, unlike _Lucas Morne_ in
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, August 20, 1892
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There was always a halfpenny underneath the geranium pot in the window-sill for the child whose eye caught sight of the first swallow, redstart or sandpiper; or whose ear first recognised the clarion call of the cuckoo, or the evening "bleat" of the nightjar on the bracken-mantled fells at the end of May.
More Tales of the Ridings
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Then he drank a pint of beer and had a game of shove-halfpenny with a flight-lieutenant.
In Spite of Their Declaration of Bombs
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And since Dolly, formerly Shovehalfpenny, also had clothes made by Irena, might there not be news of Felix?
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For her father's comfort, noting the sad wistful eyes that watched her coming in and going out, she had resigned herself to spend long melancholy hours within doors, reading aloud till Sir John fell asleep, playing backgammon -- a game she detested worse even than shove-halfpenny, which latter primitive game they played sometimes on the shovel-board in the hall.
London Pride Or When the World Was Younger
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The Princes had as much brandy as they liked, and passed their time on the ramparts playing at dice, or pitch-and-toss (with the halfpenny that one of them somehow had) for vast sums of money, for which they gave their notes-of-hand.
Burlesques
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Mary Ann Chapman threw a halfpenny on the table and said ‘Go and get a halfpennyworth of soap.’
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Why don't you learn to wash up, instead of walkin 'about talking like three-halfpennyworth of trash?
Night Must Fall : a Play in Three Acts
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Near adjoining to this abbey, on the south side thereof, was some time a farm belonging to the said nunnery, at which farm I myself, in my youth, have fetched many a halfpennyworth of milk.
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Thus, said Friar John, at Seuille, the rascally beggars being one evening on a solemn holiday at supper in the spital, one bragged of having got six blancs, or twopence halfpenny; another eight liards, or twopence; a third, seven caroluses, or sixpence; but an old mumper made his vaunts of having got three testons, or five shillings.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
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I then carried home my provision, and eat some more cheese with the other roll, and a halfpennyworth of apples by way of relish, and took a drink of water.
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Laidlaw kicked a 22nd-minute penalty from close range but Halfpenny, retained as first-choice goalkicker following his late heroics in Dublin, drew Wales level 10 minutes before half-time through an effortless strike from 40 metres.
WalesOnline - Home
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The oak table is 10m long and was used for the old game of shuffle-board, a Tudor version of shove-halfpenny.
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In 1921 the average price of butterfat received was only one shilling and tuppence halfpenny a pound.
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When Mother sold a story they had three-pennyworth of halfpenny buns for tea.
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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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They also included a selection of threepenny bits, a 1916 halfpenny and a penny piece from 1921.
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RHYS PRIESTLAND: Saw Halfpenny continue from Dublin as first-choice goalkicker, and he appeared to thrive without that pressure.
WalesOnline - Home
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The ubiquitous twopenny-halfpenny clerk was everywhere, ever present and ever reliable.
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Private houses generally contributed a halfpenny a week, and farmers gave a basinful or a nogin of flour.
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Often and often I have mused quietly amid scenes where gamblers of various sorts were disporting themselves -- in village inns where solemn yokels played shove-halfpenny with statesmanlike gravity; in sunny Italian streets where lazy loungers played their queer guessing game with beans; in noisy racing-clubs where the tape clicks all day long; on crowded steamboats when
Side Lights
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I may say that the scale of the portraits need not be uniform, as my apparatus enlarges or reduces as required, at the same time that it superposes the images; but the portraits of the heads should never be less than twice the size of that of the Queen on a halfpenny piece.
Inquiries into Human Faculty and Its Development
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He has a pennyworth of cold boiled (unsalted) beef, a pennyworth of bread, a halfpennyworth of cheese and a pennyworth of currant jam.
A Tramp's Wallet stored by an English goldsmith during his wanderings in Germany and France
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It is your little twopenny-halfpenny authors - the sort that would be dear at six for a shilling - that ‘knock off’ things in a few hours.
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I intended to convey that our charming host and hostess were superior to the follies of fashion, and preferred leading a simple and wholesome life to gadding about to twopenny-halfpenny tea-drinking afternoons, and living above their incomes.
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I toss a few cabers, and tiddle a wink occasionally, and I’m a very fair hand at shove-halfpenny.”
Mystery Mile
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There was good reason behind such ambitions, for ‘if you were a prince with no gun salute, then every twopenny-halfpenny political Agent could come and visit you every three months and ask to see the accounts.
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Thus, said Friar John, at Seuille, the rascally beggars being one evening on a solemn holiday at supper in the spital, one bragged of having got six blancs, or twopence halfpenny; another eight liards, or twopence; a third, seven caroluses, or sixpence; but an old mumper made his vaunts of having got three testons, or five shillings.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
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In those days, pubs were places where people - mainly men - quaffed beer or other alcoholic drinks, socialized, and played games such as darts, dominoes, cribbage, and shove-halfpenny.
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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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Them churns and mugs is a halfpenny; and so's the little tin plates.
Six to Sixteen: A Story for Girls
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Regarding the purchasing power of a shilling it is a remarkable fact that in 1939 a sixpence would purchase a glass of beer, a packet of Woodbines and a box of matches and leave a halfpenny change.
