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Examples

  • And not waving 27 assorted John Leech Focus Specials, many printed in six colours for but tuppence hapenny a thousand.

    Archive 2007-01-14 2007

  • If the hapenny papers ceased to notice him forthwith it seems to us more than probable that he would cease at once to be of the highest importance in literary circles and the

    Gilbert Keith Chesterton Maisie Ward 1932

  • The fact is we have in Mr. Chesterton the true product of the deboshed hapenny press ....

    Gilbert Keith Chesterton Maisie Ward 1932

  • A dinner for a hapenny! and the dinner as this jolly party had bin a eating cost,

    Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 98 January 11, 1890 Various 1876

  • I do apologize - I thought I was addressing a tuppenny hapenny prostitute. '

    Army Rumour Service 2010

  • I do apologize - I thought I was addressing a tuppenny hapenny prostitute. '

    Army Rumour Service 2010

  • I do apologize - I thought I was addressing a tuppenny hapenny prostitute. '

    Army Rumour Service 2010

  • I do apologize - I thought I was addressing a tuppenny hapenny prostitute. '

    Army Rumour Service 2010

  • I do apologize - I thought I was addressing a tuppenny hapenny prostitute. '

    Army Rumour Service 2010

  • I do apologize - I thought I was addressing a tuppenny hapenny prostitute. '

    Army Rumour Service 2010

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