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- noun Plural form of
eightpence .
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Examples
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It was not the amount of eightpences, but the quantity of gin which told fatally against poor Jamess character when his aunts butler, Mr. Bowls, went down at his mistresss request to pay the young gentlemans bill.
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He owed his lord, not fifty pence (fifty eightpences or thereabouts), not five hundred pence, but
Expositions of Holy Scripture St. Luke Alexander Maclaren 1868
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It was not the amount of eightpences, but the quantity of gin which told fatally against poor
Vanity Fair William Makepeace Thackeray 1837
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The enclosed accounts, which Hornblower was about to thrust aside, had among the innumerable six and eightpences and three and fourpences one set of items which caught his eye — they dealt with the funeral expenses of the late Mrs Hornblower, and a grave in the cemetery of the church of St Thomas à Beckett, and a headstone, and fees for grave-watchers; it was a ghoulish list which made Hornblower's blood run a little colder.
Flying Colours Forester, C. S. 1938
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It was not the amount of eightpences, but the quantity of gin which told fatally against poor James’s character, when his aunt’s butler, Mr. Bowls, went down at his mistress’s request to pay the young gentleman’s bill.
Vanity Fair 2006
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