sixpenny

• 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
• But to enter the best room of the familiar tavern, to order, in politest but imperative tones, "beer"--sixpenny beer--for himself and "the other gentleman," is indeed bliss. —  The Gypsies
• 178. A CHEAPER KIND OF CHICKEN BROTH In large towns it is easy to purchase sixpenny-worth of fowls' necks, gizzards, and feet, which, prepared as indicated in the foregoing Number, make excellent broth at a fourth part of the cost occasioned by using a fowl for the same purpose No. —  A Plain Cookery Book for the Working Classes
• You must take care of it, for I shall not buy you a new one in a hurry She took it, unfastened it, and remained dumbfounded with astonishment and rage; in the middle of the silk there was a hole as big as a sixpenny-piece; it had been made with the end of a cigar What is that?" —  The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Vol. 1 (of 8) Boule de Suif and Other Stories
• It makes poor Jews, male and female, forsake the synagogue for the sixpenny theatre or penny hop; the Jew to take up with an Irish female of loose character, and the Jewess with a musician of the Guards, or the Tipperary servant of Captain Mulligan. —  The Romany Rye a sequel to "Lavengro"

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