elevenpence

She gave the beggars five fathoms of calico for the big mainsail, two sticks of tobacco for the chronometer, and a sheath-knife worth elevenpence ha'penny for a hundred fathoms of brand new five-inch manila.

Chapter 18 2010

What I think will be admitted is that this list represents about as wise an expenditure as could be contrived; if you had to live on three and elevenpence halfpenny

The Road to Wigan Pier 2004

The charge was elevenpence, but it was a dark, evil-smelling place, and a notorious haunt of the ‘nancy boys’.

Down and Out in Paris and London 2004

Dingley frets to see Stella lose that four and elevenpence, the other night.

The Journal to Stella 2003

It had cost him ten and elevenpence; but what an agony of nervousness it had cost him!

Dubliners 2003

When he brought the blouse home Annie kissed him and said it was very pretty and stylish; but when she heard the price she threw the blouse on the table and said it was a regular swindle to charge ten and elevenpence for it.

Dubliners 2003

"He's got a sugar in his window at three-ha'pence; one great placard quoting primest butter at elevenpence; another setting forth that a quarter pound of tea would be given away with every half-crown spent in the shop."

Mrs. Day's Daughters Mary E. Mann

"Eight and elevenpence halfpenny if you please, ma'am."

Lazy Thoughts of a Lazy Girl Sister of that "Idle Fellow." Jenny Wren

Whereupon the Heelandman bought a Kilmarnock nichtcap, price elevenpence happeny, frae Mr. Weft, and paid him wi 'part of the very note that brocht on the ferly I hae just been relating.

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 275, September 29, 1827 Various

They were, however, soon driven from the market by French manufacturers, who sold a great gross -- that is, twelve gross, each of twelve dozen -- for the ridiculously small sum of elevenpence.

The Girl's Own Paper, Vol. VIII, No. 354, October 9, 1886 Various