elevenpence

• “She gave the beggars five fathoms of calico for the big mainsail, two sticks of tobacco for the chronometer, and a sheath-knife worth elevenpence ha'penny for a hundred fathoms of brand new five-inch manila.”

  Chapter 18

• “What I think will be admitted is that this list represents about as wise an expenditure as could be contrived; if you had to live on three and elevenpence halfpenny”

  The Road to Wigan Pier

• “The charge was elevenpence, but it was a dark, evil-smelling place, and a notorious haunt of the ‘nancy boys’.”

  Down and Out in Paris and London

• “Dingley frets to see Stella lose that four and elevenpence, the other night.”

  The Journal to Stella

• “It had cost him ten and elevenpence; but what an agony of nervousness it had cost him!”

  Dubliners

• “When he brought the blouse home Annie kissed him and said it was very pretty and stylish; but when she heard the price she threw the blouse on the table and said it was a regular swindle to charge ten and elevenpence for it.”

  Dubliners

• “They were, however, soon driven from the market by French manufacturers, who sold a great gross -- that is, twelve gross, each of twelve dozen -- for the ridiculously small sum of elevenpence.”

  The Girl's Own Paper, Vol. VIII, No. 354, October 9, 1886

• “He's got a sugar in his window at three-ha'pence; one great placard quoting primest butter at elevenpence; another setting forth that a quarter pound of tea would be given away with every half-crown spent in the shop.”

  Mrs. Day's Daughters

• “Eight and elevenpence halfpenny if you please, ma'am.”

  Lazy Thoughts of a Lazy Girl Sister of that "Idle Fellow."

• “Whereupon the Heelandman bought a Kilmarnock nichtcap, price elevenpence happeny, frae Mr. Weft, and paid him wi 'part of the very note that brocht on the ferly I hae just been relating.”

  The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 275, September 29, 1827

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