thruppence

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A pint of finest milk stout in the Little Driver will slip down a treat for thruppence, and then perchance a crumpet or two for tea.

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  • Jenner's idea is to tie the distribution of the cash to the individual tracks - you get a third of a thruppence or whatever for every play of one of your songs. —  No Rock And Roll Fun
  • A pint of finest milk stout in the Little Driver will slip down a treat for thruppence, and then perchance a crumpet or two for tea. —  diamond geezer
  • Out comes the sarvint vith tuppence or thruppence, and a horder for me to "move on." —  Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, December 17, 1892
  • Then I sets you aboard the 'Flash'; you gives me your thruppence, and I makes him take me to the Old Bull_, and pays him then Yes, that will be capital," said the Skipper Right you are. —  The Little Skipper A Son of a Sailor
  • Gie him thruppence--it's mair wise-like Oh, very well," said Jean, thwarted at the very beginning of her efforts in philanthropy. —  Penny Plain
 

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