threepenny-bit

Purdy had not cared a threepenny-bit one way or the other.

The Way Home 2003

My sitter happened to be a pretty society woman, possessed of about as much soul as would cover a threepenny-bit, and when I'd finished her portrait she simply turned and rent me.

The Lamp of Fate Margaret Pedler

'The threepenny-bit your mother put on the clock-ledge, ye pelferin' vag'bond! 'said his father sternly.

Despair's Last Journey David Christie Murray

'What ha' ye dune wi 'the threepenny-bit ye stole this morning?'

Despair's Last Journey David Christie Murray

But she, glancing through it twelve months hence, would be able to fill in many, though not all, of the details; how, on the way out from the station, Clem had told her about the new Gloucestershire job; how she and Vin had seen a heron; how the Bucklands had given them home-cured gammon with pickled peaches; and Bridget's fascinating story about her cousin, the threepenny-bit, and the deaf chimney-sweep.

Mrs. Miniver 1939

R.J. Campbell on the Social Evil with such an air of condescension has paid me with a bad threepenny-bit.

The Judge Rebecca West 1937

But it wasn't – not a bit of it; not even a threepenny-bit.

The House of Arden Edith 1923

"My threepenny-bit," he roared, with one fist up --

Here are Ladies James Stephens 1916

"Who stole the last threepenny-bit of a poor man?"

Here are Ladies James Stephens 1916

He followed with his eyes her long slender figure as she threaded her way in and out of the crowd, sinuously, confidingly, producing a penny from one lad's elbow, a threepenny-bit from between another's neck and collar, half a crown from another's hair, and always repeating in that flute-like voice of hers "Well, this is rather queer!"

Zuleika Dobson, or, an Oxford love story Max Beerbohm 1914