half-farthing

• “Chatou, I have but one God, one King, one half-farthing, and one boot.”

  Les Miserables

• “In 1570 the "payer of balowes" were sold, and in 1583 the pipes, "wayeng eleven score and thirteen pounds, went for fourpence half-farthing the pound.”

  The Churches of Coventry A Short History of the City & Its Medieval Remains

• “The mids, with the exception of three, were fine-looking lads from the ages of fifteen to eighteen, fond of fun and mischief and of their half-pint of rum; were frequently at watch and watch, mast-headed, pooped, and confined to their half-farthing candle-lighted mess-holes.”

  A Sailor of King George

• “If he build it into his house he commits no trespass till he lives in the house long enough to gain the value of a half-farthing.”

  Hebrew Literature

• “If he take away a consecrated half-farthing he commits no trespass.”

  Hebrew Literature

• “There is, it is well known, the old paradox of the geometric series; you may add a farthing to a halfpenny, and then a half-farthing, and then a quarter-farthing, and then the eighth of a farthing, followed by the sixteenth, and thirty-second, and so on, halving the contribution each time.”

  Time and Tide A Romance of the Moon

• “I sometimes bestowed a half-farthing, always expressed great gratitude.”

  A Lady's Glimpse of the Late War in Bohemia

• “For the critics, Lamb said in the same letter, he did not care the "five hundred thousandth part of a half-farthing;" and we can believe him.”

  The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 4 Poems and Plays

• “Just as the florins is of much higher denomination and value than the half-farthing, so also should it be understood that faith is much higher and more efficacious than works.”

  Apology of the Augsburg Confession

• “It does not follow that because a half-farthing does not help, therefore a florin also does not help.”

  Apology of the Augsburg Confession

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