How To Use Twopence In A Sentence
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There was an additional charge of twopence a week for the secretary's salary and office expenses.
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Thus, said Friar John, at Seuille, the rascally beggars being one evening on a solemn holiday at supper in the spital, one bragged of having got six blancs, or twopence halfpenny; another eight liards, or twopence; a third, seven caroluses, or sixpence; but an old mumper made his vaunts of having got three testons, or five shillings.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
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This is perverse and foolish, he told himself; if I wanted a wife, I could make choice of a dozen; yet here am I doting on Miss Aston, who seems not to care twopence for me!
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“Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.”
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I don't care twopence what other people think of it.
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No sooner had I consumed my third drink in the Devil than I was accosted by a delightful small flower-selling child who asked me for twopence for a daisy.
Clockwork Angel
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As for Cursecowl, the invincible reprobate, so ashamed was he of his infamous conduct, that he did not dare, for the life in his body, to show himself before my shop-window -- far less in my presence -- for more than a week; yet, would ye believe it! he made a perfect farce of the whole business among his own wauf cronies; and, instead of repentance, I verily believe, would not have cared twopence to have played me the same pliskie that he did my douce and worthy friend.
The Life of Mansie Wauch tailor in Dalkeith
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She always comes down strongly in favour of the twopence coloured.
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He had eaten and drunk heartily, and cracked many scurril Jokes while under sentence, and seemed not to care Twopence whether he was Reprieved or Not.
The Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous, Vol. 2 of 3 Who was a sailor, a soldier, a merchant, a spy, a slave among the moors...
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A penny soul never came to twopence.
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The admission to the ground was traditionally a penny, twopence if W. G. Grace was batting.
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From defiant defence to absolute antis, they were all there fighting their corner and throwing in their twopence worth as the saying goes.
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Flowers were also very scarce, narcissus and chrysanthemums being the chief varieties at twopence and threepence per bunch.
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A water-carrier brings us up every morning a skin bag of water (it is made of skins sewn together, with a small outlet at the top); for it we pay twopence, which is equal to more than a shilling in London.
Pictures of Jewish Home-Life Fifty Years Ago
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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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Dr. Johnson's statue can be seen any day for twopence, which is tenpence less than Madame Tassaud charges for admission to her wax effigies, and must therefore be considered cheap.
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2 No 4, October, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy
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That afternoon, when we left the shop, Ben took me to a nearby place, the used-clothing shop where his friend worked for his father, and we bought an old nightgown for twopence.
The Secret of the Sealed Room
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There is something naif and amusing in this exhibition of cheatery — this simple cringing and wheedling, and passion for twopence-halfpenny.
Notes of a Journey From Cornhill to Grand Cairo
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The billon coinage was discontinued after 1603, but twopence pieces in copper called hardheads, bodles, or turners continued to be issued until the Act of Union.
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A 1706 contract with a London clothing merchant to outfit sailors listed: ‘Leather caps faced with red cotton and lined with black-lined at the rate of one shilling and twopence each’.
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They were well paid, as much as fourpence being given for a good cock-crower (in 'The Trial of Christ'), while the part of God was worth three and fourpence: no contemptible sums at a time when a quart of wine cost twopence and a goose threepence.
The Growth of English Drama
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The khansamah would appear to be the only functionary in residence until the hour of departure draws near, when a whole party of underlings -- chowkidars, bheesties, and sweepers -- appear from nowhere in particular; and the lordly traveller, having presented them with about twopence apiece, rolls off along the dusty white road, leaving the khansamah and his myrmidons salaaming on the verandah.
A Holiday in the Happy Valley with Pen and Pencil
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The praises of the toy theatre have been a common theme for essayists, the planning of the scenes, the painting and cutting out of the caste, penny plain twopence coloured, the stink and glory of the performance and the final conflagration.
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Most almanacs sold for twopence each, the larger ones for sixpence - two and a half pence in today's money, but of course worth a very great deal more.
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Eighty chalders of coals, at four shillings and twopence a chalder, suffices throughout the whole year; and because coal will not burn without wood, says the household book, sixty-four loads of great wood are also allowed, at twelvepence a load. (p. 22.)
The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part C. From Henry VII. to Mary
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Flowers were also very scarce, narcissus and chrysanthemums being the chief varieties at twopence and threepence per bunch.
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Thus, said Friar John, at Seuille, the rascally beggars being one evening on a solemn holiday at supper in the spital, one bragged of having got six blancs, or twopence halfpenny; another eight liards, or twopence; a third, seven caroluses, or sixpence; but an old mumper made his vaunts of having got three testons, or five shillings.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
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Downstairs a front seat on the wooden benches cost fourpence and twopence at the rear.
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It might have seemed at first as though the future railway engineer was going to settle down quietly to the useful but uneventful life of an agricultural labourer; for from tending cows he proceeded in due time (with a splendid advance of twopence) to leading the horses at the plough, spudding thistles, and hoeing turnips on his employer's farm.
Biographies of Working Men
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It's never too late to add your twopence to the moan-fest Melba.
The post in which I whine about the weather
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A penny soul never came to twopence.
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It finally opened in January 1863: the toll to cross was half a penny for foot passengers, a penny for animals and twopence for horse-drawn vehicles.
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Relieve for twopence only may be had'Reachd my lodging at night well pleas'd. —
Letter 106
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A gilded silver twopence might well pass for a gold half-crown to the unwary.
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The most efficacious of these devices was to lace a pint of mild ate with twopenceworth of London gin.
The Wrong Box
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At Michaelmas he must pay ten pence tax, and at Martinmas twenty-three sesters of barley and two hens; at Easter one young sheep or twopence.
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In Smith's Discourse of the Commonweal, a maker of caps is made to say: ‘I am fain to give my journeymen twopence in a day more than I was wont to do, and yet they say they cannot sufficiently live thereon.
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The fare is twopence.