Twopence

Less than that would do: just to see people's faces doing something else than express resentment at the east wind, to hear them say something else than "Twopence" to the tram-conductor.

The Judge Rebecca West 1937

"Twopence," replied I; but not caring to take him, I continued, "but you only pay one penny to cross the bridge."

Jacob Faithful Frederick Marryat 1820

According to Robert Louis Stevenson 's classic essay "A Penny Plain and Twopence Coloured," in which the author of "Treasure Island" and "A Child' s Garden of Verses "recalls his own childhood love affair with these constructions, paper theaters were sold as inexpensive kits of flat sheets printed on heavy paper or card stock.

Before TV, Theater Was in the Home Barrymore Laurence Scherer 2010

Robert Louis Stevenson wrote an essay in 1884 about his boyhood theatre, naming it after the standard economy prices – "A Penny Plain, and Twopence Coloured".

Projections of puppet theatre Vera Rule 2010

‘Twopence – halfpenny,’ says the landlord, ‘is the price of the Genuine Stunning ale.’

David Copperfield 2007

“Twopence-halfpenny for your thoughts, Fokey!” cried out Miss Rougemont, taking her cigar from her truly vermilion lips, as she beheld the young fellow lost in thought, seated at the head of his table, amidst melting ices, and cut pineapples, and bottles full and empty, and cigar-ashes scattered on fruit, and the ruins of a dessert which had no pleasure for him.

The History of Pendennis 2006

I turn into a court by mere chance — I vow it was by mere chance — and there I see a coffee-shop with a placard in the window, Coffee, Twopence.

Roundabout Papers 2006

Twopence a volume bears us whithersoever we will; — back to Ivanhoe and Coeur de Lion, or to Waverley and the Young Pretender, along with Walter Scott; up the heights of fashion with the charming enchanters of the silver-fork school; or, better still, to the snug inn-parlor, or the jovial tap-room, with

The Paris Sketch Book 2006

‘Twopence a day!’ exclaimed Spriggs with scorn, opening awfully the red cavern of his lost eye.

The Warden 2004

‘Fivepence farthing for one — Twopence for two,’ the Sheep replied.

Through the Looking Glass 2003