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• “Especially on winter evenings after tea, when the fire glows in the open range and dances mirrored in the steel fender, when Father, in shirt-sleeves, sits in the rocking chair at one side of the fire reading the racing finals, and Mother sits on the other with her sewing, and the children are happy with a pennorth of mint humbugs, and the dog lolls roasting himself on the rag mat.”

  Intimate History

• “A retired officer from the old GMP force adds their two pennorth”

  Oh How We Laughed……But Not Too Loudly. « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG

• “We have agreed that my two pennorth should have read 'once the cock regains control of the braincell...”

  Same, except different

• “Mrs Gwyllim a pennorth, I chose rather to go again with her into the Bath, and then I met with an axident.”

  The Expedition of Humphry Clinker

• “I've only had seventeen pints of ale and three pennorth of gin.”

  Frank Oldfield Lost and Found

• “Patrick-street, Dublin -- the lady who used to boast of her "bag of farthin's," and regale herself before each encounter with a pennorth of the "droppin's o 'the cock.”

  Irish Wit and Humor Anecdote Biography of Swift, Curran, O'Leary and O'Connell

• “We came out gipsies of the deepest dye, for we had got a pennorth of walnut stain from Mr. Jameson the builder, and mixed with water – the water we had brought in a medicine-bottle – it was a prime disguise.”

  New Treasure Seekers

• “There's plenty' ud think they'd got their two-pennorth to see this on the screen o 'a picture-show at' ome, Jock. ”

  Between the Lines

• “Not two pennorth of jewellery among a dozen of them.”

  Act III

• “All it wants is three pennorth o hair dye: am I to be turned on the streets to starve for it?”

  Major Barbara

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