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The lowest is called the Sixpenny; that belongs to the lower boys; they are, you will understand, all those in the upper school below the fifth form.
Ernest Bracebridge School Days William Henry Giles Kingston 1847
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Adés's concert this week with the London Sinfonietta includes the latest of them – a suite of eight movements for ensemble, entitled Feldman's Sixpenny Editions – which is being played alongside music by Luciano Berio, Per Nørgård and Adès himself.
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Sixpenny pieces and glittering shillings over the roadway he scatters like pebbles.
Peer Gynt 2008
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Sixpenny pieces and glittering shillings over the roadway he scatters like pebbles.
Peer Gynt 2008
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[39] "Secret History of the Rebels in Newgate;" a scarce Sixpenny Tract, in the British Museum.
Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume II. Mrs. Thomson
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Officers 'Medals of the LITTLE FOLKS Legion of Honour will be given; for the next best Description a Half-Guinea Book and an Officer's Medal will be given; and Three Seven-Shilling-and-Sixpenny Books and Officers'
Little Folks (Septemeber 1884) A Magazine for the Young Various
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'Sixpenny knives have only one blade; I want two.'
The Doll and Her Friends or Memoirs of the Lady Seraphina Unknown
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Sixpenny paper notes are now being issued in various parts of Germany.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, August 15, 1917 Various
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_The Review of Reviews, a Sixpenny Monthly_, that I went over and waylaid Mr. Stead as he was coming with his family out of church.
The Idler Magazine, Volume III, March 1893 An Illustrated Monthly Various
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At first it was decided to call it _The Sixpenny Monthly_, with a sub-title, _A Review of the Reviews_; as such, indeed, it appeared upon the cover till the day before going to press, which was a Sunday.
The Idler Magazine, Volume III, March 1893 An Illustrated Monthly Various
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