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- noun The monetary amount of
fourteen pence .
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Examples
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Or, to reckon, I think, a fairer way: Whoever buys a pound of Mr. M'Culla's coin, at two shillings per pound, carries home only the real value of fourteenpence, which is a pound of copper; and thus he is a loser of _41l. 13s. 4d. _ per cent. [
The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. - Volume 07 Historical and Political Tracts-Irish Jonathan Swift 1706
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My last bread and cheese dinner cost me fourteenpence.
Lavengro 2004
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The average receipts of Paris needlewomen have not, however, fallen below fourteenpence a day; those of them who work with fashionable dressmakers earn about one and eightpence.
A Tramp's Wallet stored by an English goldsmith during his wanderings in Germany and France William Duthie
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As the people murmured at the severe dearth of corn, he settled grain at a price certain to the buyer, and undertook to pay fourteenpence a measure to the seller: neither yet would he accept the name of _Father of his
The Reign of Tiberius, Out of the First Six Annals of Tacitus; With His Account of Germany, and Life of Agricola Caius Cornelius Tacitus
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A skilled workman is pleased to earn the native equivalent of fourteenpence for a day's labour, beginning at sunrise, and on this miserable pittance he can support a wife and family.
Morocco S.L. Bensusan
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Doctor Schmidt assured me that one rouble and forty copecks, or, according to the English currency, fourteenpence halfpenny, were formerly paid for the binding of every individual copy of St Matthew's Gospel.
The Life of George Borrow Jenkins, Herbert 1912
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The sandwich men get fourteenpence per day and find themselves.
The People of the Abyss Jack London 1896
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_ -- I cannot help thinking that Christopher Sly merely means that he is fourteenpence on the score for _sheer_ ale, -- nothing but ale; neither bread nor meat, horse housing, or bed.
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True, there may have been associations: but what associations can men be expected to cultivate on fourteenpence a-day?
Literary and General Lectures and Essays Charles Kingsley 1847
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So the two return to day-labour at fourteenpence a-day.
Literary and General Lectures and Essays Charles Kingsley 1847
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