eighteenpences

Ive an intellect: a mind and a brain and a soul; and the use he makes of them is to fix them on his tuppences and his eighteenpences and his two pound seventeen and tenpences and see how much they come to at the end of the day and take care that no one steals them.

Misalliance George Bernard Shaw 1903

With another sigh Mr Knag took up the kitchen candles from the counter, and preceded the ladies with mournful steps to a back-parlour, where a charwoman, employed in the absence of the sick servant, and remunerated with certain eighteenpences to be deducted from her wages due, was putting the supper out.

Nicholas Nickleby Charles Dickens 1841

And if it was only that, -- do you know what fifty-two eighteenpences come to in a year?

Mrs. Caudle's Curtain Lectures Douglas William Jerrold 1830

a charwoman, employed in the absence of the sick servant, and remunerated with certain eighteenpences to be deducted from her wages due, was putting the supper out.

Nicholas Nickleby 2007

"That depends upon how many eighteenpences one possesses.

Love Eternal Henry Rider Haggard 1890