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  • The following is a description of a six-year-old bull, got by 'Twopenny' out of a Canley cow: 'His head, chest, and neck remarkably fine and clean; his chest extraordinarily deep; his brisket bearing down to his knees; his chine thin, loin narrow at the chine, but remarkably wide at the hips.

    A Short History of English Agriculture 1893

  • Twopenny magnificence, indeed, exists all over Ireland, and may be considered as the great characteristic of the Snobbishness of that country.

    The Book of Snobs 2006

  • Twopenny Drove, at the end of which Twopenny Ferry leads to

    John Caldigate 2004

  • He got out upon Twopenny Drove and passed over the ferry, meaning to walk across the farm and so out on to the Causeway, and round home by the bridge.

    John Caldigate 2004

  • Twopenny Hall, a farmhouse across the Wash belonging to Mr. Caldigate.

    John Caldigate 2004

  • At the Twopenny Hangover, the lodgers sit in a row on a bench; there is a rope in front of them, and they lean on this as though leaning over a fence.

    Down and Out in Paris and London 2004

  • But on the other side of the Wash he encountered Mr. Ralph Holt, the occupier of Twopenny farm, whose father also and grandfather had lived upon the same acres.

    John Caldigate 2004

  • Therefore some people nicknamed this railway 'The Twopenny Tube.'

    The Children's Book of London

  • "How to Manage Twopenny Eggs" is the headline of a morning paper.

    Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-02-25 Various

  • Twopenny dinners are the speciality at a Northern munition works 'canteen.

    Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, October 24, 1917 Various

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