How To Use ninepence In A Sentence
- As it was pirated, so the price crept up, ninepence, one shilling, one shilling and sixpence, half-a-crown, and then it came out in instalments.
- She paid ninepence for one blanket and we used it all winter. Lost Voices of the Edwardians: 19011910 in the words of the Men & Women Who Were There
- At the end of the eighteenth century the rector of the church was still called master of the hospital, and ten beadsmen received ninepence weekly from the funds of the old foundation. (fn. 16)
- She would take it back clean in the spring and get her ninepence back. Lost Voices of the Edwardians: 19011910 in the words of the Men & Women Who Were There
- The attention of the company was then directed, by a natural transition, to the little girl who had had the audacity to burn her hair off, and who, after receiving sundry small slaps and pushes from the more energetic of the ladies, was mercifully sent home: the ninepence, with which she was to have been rewarded, being escheated to the Kenwigs family. Nicholas Nickleby