How To Use Threepenny 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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They also included a selection of threepenny bits, a 1916 halfpenny and a penny piece from 1921.
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The coins were pennies and silver threepenny bits dating from the early years of the twentieth century.
SOMEWHERE EAST OF LIFE
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Woolworth's was a threepenny and sixpenny store then.
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Traveller's first word of reply was straight from the threepenny stalls at the music-halls.
ANTI-ICE
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As the author of "The Threepenny Opera," Brecht would surely have approved of it, and I also think he would have liked the musical settings by Mike Przygoda and Mikhail Fiksel of his lyrics, which are played with raggle-taggle abandon by a band whose randomly dressed members, much like the actors, give the charming impression of having poked their heads into the theater out of curiosity.
Deadly Serious Comedy
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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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This is his best place for his night's dram, and I've a threepenny ordinary for those I like the looks of.
MAN'S LOVING FAMILY
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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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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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Do you think you could go and buy threepennyworth?
The Sunny Side
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It was, after all, the threepenny and sixpenny store!
The Sun
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'I've lost my passport and air ticket, been dipped by you, been forced from my comfortable hotel, had a friend killed, got stranded, and got jumped by your threepenny nerk who's too cockhanded to blow his own nose.
The Vatican Rip
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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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After 1947, and the blow dealt to our prosperity by the Second World War, these coins were entirely cupro-nickel, and the silver threepenny piece was replaced by the dodecagonal brass threepenny bit.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
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During the next verse my devotions were a little distracted by the gradual approach of a churchwarden for my threepenny-bit, which was hot with three verses of expectant fingering.
We and the World, Part I A Book for Boys
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From the moment Walter van Dyk started from the back of the stalls to sing the opening of The Threepenny Opera, I felt a frisson which lasted to the end of the evening.
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Sixpennyworth," I said, feeling suddenly that Celia's threepennyworth sounded rather paltry.
The Sunny Side
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The dormitories, both of the fivepenny class on the ground floor and of the threepenny class upstairs, are kept scrupulously sweet and clean, and attached to them are lavatories and baths.
Regeneration
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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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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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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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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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Do you not know that the tarantula, which is no bigger than a threepenny bit, (13) has only to touch the mouth and it will afflict its victim with pains and drive him out of his senses.
The Memorabilia
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But, if truth be told, the delivery became wearisome by the second half; the final work, Weill's nonvocal "Threepenny Opera" suite, "Kleine Dreigroschenmusik für Orchester," came as a genuine balm for these ears.
Music of the Weimar Republic --
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For example, a threepenny nail is 1-1/4 "long, a fourpenny nail is 1-1/2" long, a fivepenny nail is 1-3/4 "long, a sixpenny nail is 2" long.
Handwork in Wood
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One of the revelations in Threepenny Memoir was how crippling Barât's stage fright is – a surprise when the Libertines are routinely voted as one of the best live bands.
Carl Barât: The interview
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Each person had one platter of this provision; after which were distributed to them shoes, stockings, linen and woollen cloth, and leather bags, with one penny, two-penny, threepenny, and fourpenny pieces of silver and shillings; to each about four pounds in value.
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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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The tango from The Threepenny Opera is given a beautiful performance by the singers, who impersonate the musical instrument, normally a guitar or zither, in the coda to the chorus, with their voices.
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Do you not know that the tarantula, which is no bigger than a threepenny bit,70 has only to touch the mouth and it will afflict its victim with pains and drive him out of his senses.
Memorabilia
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Yet One Touch of Venus shows that the experiences of working with radical dramatists, including socialist playwright Bertolt Brecht in The Threepenny Opera, clearly left their mark on him.
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I've "grubbed" at a threepenny hash-house, I've been at a counter-lunch,
The Home of the Blizzard Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914