threepence

How To Use threepence In A Sentence

• He had to give threepence for a copy of that paper.
• 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
• Diving exhibitions were popular; people paid threepence to watch them.
• They expected pennies and halfpennies and threepences and a few shiny sixpences but all the coins were silver. A Small Death in the Great Glen
• Best known as the maker of the state's first coinage, issuing shillings, sixpence, and threepence silver coins in 1783, Chalmers's marked domestic silver is exceedingly rare.
• Tammie's debosh and my own, besides the trifle of threepence to the round-shouldered old horse-couper with the slouched japan beaver hat. The Life of Mansie Wauch tailor in Dalkeith
• It is painful to relate, that this powerful writer, and good man, who narrowly escaped the guillotine, expired in a garret, in extreme poverty, at the age of eighty-four; the only property he left being one assignat of fifty livres, worth not threepence in ready money. On the Portraits of English Authors on Gardening, with Biographical Notices of Them, 2nd edition, with considerable additions
• For grammar the statutable amount was eightpence, for natural philosophy fourpence, and for logic threepence per term, and it was usual to reckon four terms to the year. The Customs of Old England
• Flowers were also very scarce, narcissus and chrysanthemums being the chief varieties at twopence and threepence per bunch.
• Tammie's debosh and my own, besides the trifle of threepence to the round - shouldered old horse-couper with the slouched japan beaver hat. The Life of Mansie Wauch Tailor in Dalkeith, written by himself