thruppence

• “_news_, fair and square value for the "thruppence," as siege value goes; but we were in no mood to appreciate the novelty of that; the circumstances were too distressing.”

  The Siege of Kimberley

• “The economic house is always on fire if one thruppence is spent on rational planning.”

  The “Plague” of a Limited Parking Supply « PubliCola

• “The crisps were hand cut with a vegetable slicer, cooked in a chip-shop fryer, sprinkled with salt and sold for thruppence a packet under the slogan Potato Crisps by Walkers: Guaranteed Absolutely Pure.”

  The Guardian: Crisps: a very British habit

• “Not with you on this one, i reckon that a basking shark always has the option of swallowing a human whole. suggest an immediate cull with thruppence offered to every person who brings a basking shark tail to their nearest post office”

  Basking in Ignorance

• ““It is not,” said Mr. Mack, though he counted out a shilling and thruppence for the boy.”

  Simon & Schuster: At Swim, Two Boys

• “And a big crubeen for thruppence to be pickin 'while you're able.”

  The Galway Races

• “If the tales about old King Midas have a thruppence worth of truth in them, it might be his father's meanness that's ailing him.”

  Seven Miles to Arden

• “A tray bit, missus -- just thruppence -- a mouldy thruppence to get a livener.”

  Captivity

• “So he'll scrub all three storeys down for thruppence.”

  Captivity

• “But you know, whenever there's a new chum about that he can get thruppence out of, it's poor Ma for the scrubbing.”

  Captivity

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