sixpennyworth

"sixpennyworth," and often laid wagers as to the result of the harvest.

Fragments of Two Centuries Glimpses of Country Life when George III. was King Alfred Kingston

While Mr Vuffin and his two friends smoked their pipes and beguiled the time with such conversation as this, the silent gentleman sat in a warm corner, swallowing, or seeming to swallow, sixpennyworth of halfpence for practice, balancing a feather upon his nose, and rehearsing other feats of dexterity of that kind, without paying any regard whatever to the company, who in their turn left him utterly unnoticed.

The Old Curiosity Shop 2007

The large eyes of Bicket regarded him over a puce-coloured sixpennyworth.

The White Monkey 2004

I have got a cruel cold, and stayed within all this day in my nightgown, and dined on sixpennyworth of victuals, and read and writ, and was denied to everybody.

The Journal to Stella 2003

This rain ruins me in coach-hire; I walked away sixpennyworth, and came within a shilling length, and then took a coach, [1] and got a lift back for nothing; and am now busy.

The Journal to Stella 2003

Juan Fernandez carried off sixpennyworth of silver in each car every day for a month; and how Pedro Alvarado (the Indian names have almost disappeared except in a few families, and Spanish names have been substituted) had a hammer with a hollow handle, like the stick that

Anahuac : or, Mexico and the Mexicans, Ancient and Modern Edward Burnett Tylor

Addresses are charged for, so a sixpennyworth of telegraphing does not represent a long message, but by ingenuity -- and a business woman is nothing without ingenuity -- a few words may be made to mean a great deal.

The Girl's Own Paper, Vol. VIII: No. 353, October 2, 1886. Various

After he was put to bed the doctor told his wife to give him sixpennyworth of brandy when he came to himself.

More Toasts Marion Dix [Editor] Mosher

With a ream of writing-paper, a pint of ink, and sixpennyworth of pens, he is professionally provisioned for half a year.

Despair's Last Journey David Christie Murray

The crop did not realize Mr. Bottomley's expectations, for the official average for the year was 75s. 2d. per quarter, from which we infer that Mr. Bottomley paid his "sixpennyworth."

Fragments of Two Centuries Glimpses of Country Life when George III. was King Alfred Kingston