ninepenny

• “The situation of woman was such as to stimulate her ever to neatness in personal appearance, even if the material was but a "ninepenny" calico; and the same may be said to a marked extent of the men.”

  Brook Farm

• “Thanks to Ellen, morning-demon, ninepenny, The rabbit and Game of Thrones UK for the links.”

  More critics discuss Thrones

• “Well! I don't believe you men know, half the time, whether a lady wears a ninepenny collar or a thread-lace cape worth a thousand dollars.”

  The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 33, July, 1860

• “ANOTHER ninepenny acquisition: Chronological Tablets, exhibiting every Remarkable Occurrence from the Creation of the World down to the Present Time.”

  As I Please

• “There is no reason why every ninepenny lodging-house should not come up to this standard.”

  Down and Out in Paris and London

• “Mr. Wrenn could hardly keep his feet on the pavement as they scampered to it and got ninepenny seats.”

  Our Mr. Wrenn: The Romantic Adventures of a Gentle Man

• “Indoors he made baskets of assortments: threepenny, sixpenny, ninepenny and shilling baskets, rather like a bran pie in which everything was a plum.”

  The Lost Girl

• “Occasionally he treated himself to threepenny or ninepenny classics, and they usually represented a suppression of potatoes or chops.”

  The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories

• “I see a real good ninepenny paper once, all covered over with green brakes.”

  Meadow Grass Tales of New England Life

• “We left Musselburgh before the first ninepenny coach was due from Edinburgh for (as Alan said) that was a rencounter we might very well avoid.”

  David Balfour, a sequel to Kidnapped.

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