pennyworth

How To Use pennyworth In A Sentence

• Do you think you could go and buy threepennyworth? The Sunny Side
• With hioi Metcalf laid a wager of fix-pennyworth of Da liquor, The Life of John Metcalf, Commonly Called Blind Jack of Knaresborough: With ... Anecdotes of His ...
• 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
• My two pennyworth on this is that the policemen must have been pretty bored (or Anthony was wearing his dustmask and they thought he was a danger to the public).
• 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
• In the middle of the morning, when Mrs. Baines was pricing new potatoes at a stall at the top end of the Square, and Constance choosing threepennyworth of flowers at the same stall, whom should they both see, walking all alone across the empty corner by the Bank, but Sophia Baines! The Old Wives' Tale
• Quickly I gave my order, ‘a loaf, a pot of jam and a pennyworth of sweets.’
• 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
• 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
• Why, be so still; here’s nobody will steal that from thee; yet, for the outside of thy poverty we must make an exchange; therefore, discase thee instantly, —thou must think, there’s a necessity in’t, —and change garments with this gentleman: though the pennyworth on his side be the worst, yet hold thee, there’s some boot. Act IV. Scene III. The Winter’s Tale