penny-fee

I prescribed to her a course of reading; she had a little selection of English classics, a few of which had been left her by her mother, and the others she had purchased with her own penny-fee.

The Professor, by Charlotte Bronte 2006

Or deposite [11] her sair-won [12] penny-fee, [13]

The Ontario Readers: The High School Reader, 1886 Ontario. Ministry of Education

Then, laddie, ye wull hae earned yoursel 'th' penny-fee for whilk ye hae perilled your saul.

Adrift in the Ice-Fields Charles W. Hall

And if the lust of the penny-fee hath possessed him, 'tis but who can bid the highest, to have him fast body and soul.

Unknown to History: a story of the captivity of Mary of Scotland Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862

-- I'll get but little penny-fee, for his uncle, auld Nippie

Old Mortality, Volume 1. Walter Scott 1801

"For the meat and lodging, Cuddie, I think I can promise something; but the penny-fee will be a hard chapter, I doubt."

Old Mortality, Volume 1. Walter Scott 1801

Whitsuntide came round without a penny-fee, the old blue-bottles of serving-men began to think of creeping elsewhere before the frost chilled them.

Woodstock; or, the Cavalier Walter Scott 1801

-- I'll get but little penny-fee, for his uncle, auld Nippie

Old Mortality, Complete Walter Scott 1801

"For the meat and lodging, Cuddie, I think I can promise something; but the penny-fee will be a hard chapter, I doubt."

Old Mortality, Complete Walter Scott 1801

I can promise something; but the penny-fee will be a hard chapter, I doubt.”

Old Mortality 2004