How To Use Pennyworth In A Sentence
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Do you think you could go and buy threepennyworth?
The Sunny Side
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With hioi Metcalf laid a wager of fix-pennyworth of Da liquor,
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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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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).
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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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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
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Quickly I gave my order, ‘a loaf, a pot of jam and a pennyworth of sweets.’
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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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Why, be so still; heres 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, theres a necessity int, and change garments with this gentleman: though the pennyworth on his side be the worst, yet hold thee, theres some boot.
Act IV. Scene III. The Winter’s Tale
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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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I no longer stand in the outer shop of our bibliopolists, bargaining for the objects of my curiosity with an unrespective shop-lad, hustled among boys who come to buy Corderies and copy-books, and servant girls cheapening a pennyworth of paper, but am cordially welcomed by the bibliopolist himself, with, "Pray, walk into the back-shop, Captain.
The Fortunes of Nigel
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At this foreshadowing of a desolate decease, the wicked old boy would whine and whimper, and would sit shaking himself into the lowest of low spirits, until such time as he could shake himself out of the house and shake another threepennyworth into himself.
Our Mutual Friend
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“I hae forgotten my spleuchan — Lachlan, gang down to the clachan, and bring me up a pennyworth of twist.”
The Heart of Mid-Lothian
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One-half pennyworth of blood to this intolerable deal of bandages, eh?
LION IN THE VALLEY
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After the doctor had left the wife told the daughter to run and fetch threepennyworth of brandy for her father.
More Toasts
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The prosecutor told the court that the defendant had purchased two pennyworth of sweets and then went round the side of the stall and ‘gave it a push’ sending the stall crashing to the ground.
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Chop fine an onion and a pennyworth of mixed pickles; put these into a saucepan with half-a-gill of vinegar, a tea-spoonful of mustard, a small bit of butter, a large table-spoonful of bread-raspings, and pepper and salt to season; boil all together on the fire for at least six minutes; then add a gill of water, and allow the sauce to boil again for ten minutes longer.
A Plain Cookery Book for the Working Classes
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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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It seems quite possible that the same readers bought both pennyworths.
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He generally buys two pennyworth of beef soup, with a ha'p'orth of potatoes.
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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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No longer was it possible to barter twenty pounds 'worth of ivory for threepennyworth of beads, and the flourishing Mazeppa Trading Company languished and died.
Bones in London
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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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Michael Caine is one heck of an Alfred Pennyworth, the trusted, knowledgeable, ever wise servant in the two recent films about the dark knight.
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I no longer stand in the outer shop of our bibliopolists, bargaining for the objects of my curiosity with an unrespective shop-lad, hustled among boys who come to buy Corderies and copy-books, and servant girls cheapening a pennyworth of paper, but am cordially welcomed by the bibliopolist himself, with,
The Fortunes of Nigel
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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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Meter charges for Wood Street and the Square will not make a pennyworth of difference.
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Honesty may be dear bought; but can never be an ill pennyworth.
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If we went round the moon it would not make a pennyworth of difference to me or to my work.
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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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Honesty may be dear bought; but can never be an ill pennyworth.
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Sixpennyworth," I said, feeling suddenly that Celia's threepennyworth sounded rather paltry.
The Sunny Side
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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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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.
The Winter's Tale
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Bruce Wayne : People are dying. What would you have me do Alfred Pennyworth: Endure.
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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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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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Honesty may be dear bought; but can never be an ill pennyworth.
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She adds her own pennyworth.
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When Mother sold a story they had three-pennyworth of halfpenny buns for tea.
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It is something I am quite interested in so I thought my two pennyworth might help.
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Honesty may be dear bought; but can never be an ill pennyworth.
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Honesty may be dear bought; but can never be an ill pennyworth.
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All of them, appropriately for a bank, contributed their pennyworth.
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My two pennyworth: perhaps some of the difficulties involved work as a kind of sacrifice of time and energy to increase the sense of dedication to the working?
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He added: ‘Once you get into the realms of private property we are waiting for people to come along and put their two pennyworth in.’
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He generally buys two pennyworth of beef soup, with a ha'p'orth of potatoes.
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Honesty may be dear bought; but can never be an ill pennyworth.
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At seven o'clock the family heard him buy threepennyworth of hot-cross buns; he talked with gusto to the little girl who brought them, calling her "my darling".
Sons and Lovers
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He would talk until his head smoked of his list of miraculous cures -- of his balsams, his anodynes, his elixirs; in the benevolence of his soul he would, to accommodate the pockets of the poor, sell a pennyworth of the philosopher's stone; and, as a further illustration of his sympathy for suffering man or woman, give, even for a kreutzer, a mouthful of the Fountain of Youth.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, November 6, 1841,
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Honesty may be dear bought; but can never be an ill pennyworth.
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Sixpennyworth," I said, not knowing a bit how much it would be, but feeling that Celia's threepennyworth sounded rather mean.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, July 15, 1914
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He smiled at Chrissy through the car window as he squirted the last pennyworth in and twisted the petrol cap back 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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In any mind which has a pennyworth of imagination it produces a good attitude towards foreigners.
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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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Very well, I have threepennyworth of apples, and I have just given you the other threepence.
Amusements in Mathematics
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He smiled at Chrissy through the car window as he squirted the last pennyworth in and twisted the petrol cap back on.
