fourpence-halfpenny

'I didn't want particular to go out again to-day, but anything to encourage a good young chap. There is a nice shop in Edgware Road -- hundreds of books for fourpence-halfpenny each.

Chatterbox, 1905. Various

The Grenadier was not an expensive hotel, for in the morning when I paid my bill for bed and breakfast, I found that the accommodation cost me fourpence-halfpenny.

A Tramp's Wallet stored by an English goldsmith during his wanderings in Germany and France William Duthie

We understand that Sir Peter Laurie has been presented with the Freedom of the Barber's Company, enclosed in a pewter shaving-box of the value of fourpence-halfpenny.

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, November 27, 1841 Various

Garrick, setting off to London, where it was said that he lived in a garret on fourpence-halfpenny per day.

From John O'Groats to Land's End Robert Naylor

There were several postal orders, a half-crown or two, a ten-shilling note from Clem's father, and fourpence-halfpenny from Toby, who had bought her a purse as a present and thoughtfully put into it everything that he happened to have got left.

Mrs. Miniver 1939

We took the tram to Greenwich Station, and then we took a cab home (and well worth the money, which was all we now had got, except fourpence-halfpenny), for we were all dog-tired.

New Treasure Seekers Edith 1925

This is invented for me, and delivered to me orally by Mr. Murdstone, and begins, 'If I go into a cheesemonger's shop, and buy five thousand double-Gloucester cheeses at fourpence-halfpenny each, present payment' - at which I see Miss Murdstone secretly overjoyed.

David Copperfield Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 1917

This is invented for me, and delivered to me orally by Mr. Murdstone, and begins, “If I go into a cheese-monger’s shop, and buy five thousand double-Gloucester cheeses at fourpence-halfpenny each, present payment”—at which I see Miss Murdstone secretly overjoyed.

IV. I Fall Into Disgrace 1917

The first, a beautiful piece of prose, of which the key-note was resignation, contained two shillings 'worth of sympathy and fourpence-halfpenny worth of religion.

A Master Of Craft 1903

Of course we have read Mr Sherlock Holmes, as well as the yellow-covered books with pictures outside that are so badly printed; and you get them for fourpence-halfpenny at the bookstall when the corners of them are beginning to curl up and get dirty, with people looking to see how the story ends when they are waiting for trains.

The Story of the Treasure Seekers 1891