Fourpence

But I love children, and Fourpence a week is Four-pence.

Our Mutual Friend 2004

It extends beyond the usual quantity, the Memoir is of original interest, and the price is (in the present instance only) unavoidably advanced to Fourpence.

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 321, July 5, 1828 Various

Fourpence a-day was a labourer's wage, but what need had one of even fourpence, with his hut free and the food piling richly at his very door?

John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn Neil Munro

Fourpence worth of biscuits seemed to Frank an insufficient supply of food for two people who are to be on the sea for the whole day.

Priscilla's Spies George A. Birmingham 1907

Schoolchildren '-- whatever that might mean -- and' Fourpence a head for

Corporal Sam and Other Stories Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

Fourpence_ '-- where they have the two young Simultaneous Dancers, the

Bird of Paradise Ada Leverson 1897

Fourpence a week on tobacco gave me half-a-dozen cigarettes a day; I have spent more on smoke and derived less satisfaction.

Paul Kelver, a Novel 1893

A final and prolonged burst of mirth succeeded this announcement, during which the unrepentant Three and Fourpence swung the pail on to the hook of the swinging-balance for weighing the milk that was Miss

Mount Music Martin Ross 1888

Fourpence a pound wholesale will not pay for the making; sixpence will leave a profit; but of late the price has gone rather to the lower than the higher figure.

Hodge and His Masters Richard Jefferies 1867

Fourpence was a good price to give for a pair of shoes, and a halfpenny a day for food was a liberal allowance.

Our Little Lady Six Hundred Years Ago Emily Sarah Holt 1864