| 单词 | threepenny |
| 例句 | With a hammer and two threepenny nails in hand, Stella Armijo emerged from her low adobe farmhouse one morning while Herbie reclined on his front stoop trying to read a book. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The current proposed design is a 12-sided coin similar in shape to the pre-decimalisation threepence piece, more commonly known as the "threepenny bit". Design contest opens for new £1 coin 2014-09-12T04:00:00Z The proposed new coin will be roughly the same size as the current one and will be based on the threepenny piece that disappeared after decimalisation in the early 1970s. New £1 coin to curb counterfeits 2014-03-19T20:32:15Z The 1-pound coin is to be replaced by a new model based on the old threepenny bit, Finance Minister George Osborne will announce in Wednesday's Budget. PRESS DIGEST- British Business - March 19 2014-03-19T01:25:25Z The paper's lead story says the £1 coin is to be scrapped in favour of a new design "shaped like an old threepenny bit". Ukraine 'war footing' and Jagger 'devotion' - papers 2014-03-18T23:34:37Z Government sources said the time was right to "retire" the existing £1 coin and using the threepenny bit as inspiration for its replacement was a "fitting tribute" to such an iconic design. New £1 coin to combat counterfeiting 2014-03-18T22:23:19Z It may, however, be observed that "Penny Purchase" is really as expensive as threepenny ordinary Nap. Hoyle's Games Modernized 2012-04-15T02:00:05.927Z A Treasury spokesman said the time was right to "retire" the existing £1 coin and using the threepenny bit as inspiration for its replacement was a "fitting tribute" to such an iconic design. New £1 coin to curb counterfeits 2014-03-19T20:32:15Z And now the bonnet is on, and she does not think it looks so very bad, and Myra's shawl, as reflected in the little threepenny glass, looks quite neat. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 1. No 1, June 1850 2012-03-21T02:00:31.390Z They who eat at a threepenny ordinary, and sometimes not so well, should not boast either of their dinner or company. ?sop's Fables, Embellished with One Hundred and Eleven Emblematical Devices. 2012-03-19T02:00:22.807Z At the collection at Dr. Parker's Sunday evening meeting in Queen Anne Street Church, Dunfermline, there were no fewer than 1,400 threepenny pieces. The Little Gleaner, Vol. X. A Monthly Magazine for the Young 2012-02-03T03:00:20.453Z In addition to the small cakes presented to strangers as well as villagers, every resident in the parish is entitled to a threepenny loaf and three quarters of a pound of cheese. Old Church Lore 2012-01-31T03:00:14.880Z Of silver coins, the natives are only acquainted with rupees, Spanish dollars, and English threepenny pieces, which latter they call "small rupees." Narrative of the Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara, Volume II (Commodore B. Von Wullerstorf-Urbair,) Undertaken by Order of the Imperial Government in the Years 1857, 1858, & 1859, Under the Immediate Auspices of His I. and R. Highness the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, Commander-In-Chief of the Austrian Navy. 2012-01-03T03:00:07.630Z The fourpenny surface-printed stamp proved very successful, and was followed by other values—the shilling green, the threepenny rose, the sixpenny lilac, and the ninepenny straw colour. Peeps at Postage Stamps 2011-12-23T03:00:15.610Z Well, these religious Sunday riders are a selfish, shabby lot; it's quite common when they pay with a shilling for them to say, 'Give me a threepenny piece, please, conductor.' The Man with the Book or, The Bible Among the People. 2011-12-19T03:00:47.530Z The threepenny post began where the twopenny post ended. The History of the Post Office From Its Establishment Down to 1836 2011-12-19T03:00:45.273Z He saw nothing again of the policeman, nor of the crowd, nor of the lady who had lost her purse with its thirty-seven pounds, fifteen shillings, and a threepenny bit. A Hero of Romance 2011-11-30T03:00:11.457Z It was, therefore, agreed to recommend to their respective governments the adoption of the threepenny or five-cent rate for each half-ounce letter. The History of the Post Office in British North America 2011-08-31T02:01:37.743Z Here's a threepenny bit and a sixpence and two pennies. Jill's Red Bag 2011-08-13T02:00:21.893Z It is the particular case of a Sydney publican who sells threepenny beers with a free "counter lunch." The Awful Australian 2011-08-11T02:00:14.850Z A little later, the threepenny post was extended to a radius of twelve miles. The History of the Post Office From Its Establishment Down to 1836 2011-12-19T03:00:45.273Z Arra, dear honey, we always commonly give nothing along with a dead person but an old shirt, a winding sheet, a big hammer, with a long candle, and an Irish silver threepenny piece. Amusing Prose Chap Books 2011-06-27T02:01:05.043Z Lay the match on the top of a bottle and just at the angle of the "V" place a threepenny bit. Water Wizardry A collection of tricks in which water is the chief agent 2011-06-26T02:00:07.577Z Pen and Pencil contained some capital cuts by Linton; and the Illustrated Times, a threepenny paper, was well done. The Pictorial Press Its Origin and Progress 2011-06-15T02:00:20.920Z Those unlucky threepenny pieces,—my unfortunate enthusiasm over the first specimens—these seemed to have set the whole of the local population on the hunting trail for ghoonyas. Lodges in the Wilderness 2011-06-15T02:00:17.057Z The same result is apparent in the case of what, for distinction's sake, we will still call the London penny post, although the London penny post had become a twopenny and threepenny one. The History of the Post Office From Its Establishment Down to 1836 2011-12-19T03:00:45.273Z Not knowing the different prices, nor the names of the different sorts of bread, I told him to give me threepenny worth of any sort. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin; Written by Himself. [Vol. 1 of 2] With His Most Interesting Essays, Letters, and Miscellaneous Writings; Familiar, Moral, Political, Economical, and Philosophical 2011-06-08T02:00:20.907Z Opening it, he went back to Granny's side and showered its contents upon her lap—two halfpennies and four pennies, a sixpenny and a threepenny bit, and a bright farthing. That Little Beggar 2011-05-21T02:00:09.877Z The Pictorial World was started as a threepenny paper, and after existing several years at that price it became the property of a company and was raised to sixpence. The Pictorial Press Its Origin and Progress 2011-06-15T02:00:20.920Z I was surprised to hear of the state of society at Louisville; it seems to me you are just as ridiculous there as we are here—threepenny parties, halfpenny dances. Letters of John Keats to His Family and Friends 2011-03-30T02:00:14.620Z The best possible remedies for this disease are arsenicum, 2� trituration, and sulphur, 2� trituration, given on alternate days, as much as will lie on a threepenny piece, night and morning, administered as above. Our Cats and All About Them Their Varieties, Habits, and Management; and for Show, the Standard of Excellence and Beauty; Described and Pictured 2011-03-03T03:00:48.597Z It contained two pounds in sixpences and threepenny bits, and this little note: "We'd like you to do something with this that would show our gratitude to the Little Missis.—A few rough Navvies." The Little Missis 2011-02-26T03:00:44.830Z I especially loved the threepenny bit for its dodecagonal - 12-sided - weirdness, its brass and nickel sallow yellow gleam and the crowned portcullis on its back. Funny money 2010-04-30T15:00:00Z Cut the meat in half-inch squares; the ginger as round as a threepenny piece, and the garlic the same size, but thicker. The Curry Cook's Assistant or, Curries, How to Make Them in England in Their Original Style "I meant to give you a threepenny bit this morning, Bobby, but in my hurry I think I gave you sixpence, so——" Bobby. Mr. Punch with The Children Day trippers proved a harvest, some putting threepenny bits or sixpences in place of pennies, and buying more than one bouquet. The School by the Sea He also discarded pipes as being vulgar, and took to threepenny cigars instead. The Gay Adventure A Romance The bonnet was composed of a single scrap of antique lace folded over a threepenny bit. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 98, June 28 1890 It shows itself in the form of a bright red spot, varying in size from that of a threepenny piece to that of a shilling, these spots vary greatly in number. The Pig Breeding, Rearing, and Marketing It's all very well for Madge to say she didn't see the threepenny bit," he said, "but I think she ought to have stayed there looking until she did see it. The Eagle's Nest Yes, uncle David, if you will find out, when gooseberries are two shillings the pint, what is the price of a threepenny tart. Holiday House A Series of Tales Far more romantic was a large official treatise styled North Atlantic Directory, reading which, I determined never again to leave any book about ships and the sea in the threepenny tub. The Bonadventure A Random Journal of an Atlantic Holiday "I'm so glad I'm of the 'threepenny 'bus' lot," says Gower, with a smile. Portia or By Passions Rocked Your kindness in dressing the wound yourself, will, I doubt not, perform the cure at the expense of that threepenny loaf and a little hog's lard. The Shepherd of Salisbury Plain and Other Tales There was the twelvepenny ordinary, where you might meet justices of the peace and young knights; and the threepenny ordinary, which was frequented by poor lieutenants and thrifty attorneys. Old and New London Volume I He calculates that a threepenny stamp for third-class, a sixpenny stamp for second-class, and a shilling stamp for first-class, should take a passenger any distance whether long or short. Railway Adventures and Anecdotes extending over more than fifty years The threepenny checks were for the workmen, and the sixpenny ones for the tradesmen. A Week's Tramp in Dickens-Land I can understand giving a threepenny bit, or even sixpence, at the offertory on Sunday at church, and of course one 'as to give Christmas-boxes to the tradesmen; but to give your whole salary away! Orientations Stock made no answer, but put a couple of threepenny loaves into his hand to carry home, and told him to call on him again at such a time in the following week. The Shepherd of Salisbury Plain and Other Tales You'll excuse me," said his Lordship apologetically to Mrs. Mackintosh, "if we play only for threepenny points. His Lordship's Leopard A Truthful Narration of Some Impossible Facts They caught the van at the crossroads, and bought a threepenny loaf. The Wolf Patrol A Tale of Baden-Powell's Boy Scouts On the contrary they would be most useful in a variety of ways in which the sixpence and threepenny bit are of no service whatever. Punch or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, December 2, 1914 He had, carefully stowed away, thirty shillings in gold, and of his regular pocket-money a two-shilling piece, a shilling, a threepenny bit, and some coppers. Great Uncle Hoot-Toot He simply rioted in haggling over a threepenny piece. Literary Tours in The Highlands and Islands of Scotland Cut the crumb of a threepenny loaf into slices, boil and sweeten two quarts of new milk, and pour over it. The Cook and Housekeeper's Complete and Universal Dictionary; Including a System of Modern Cookery, in all Its Various Branches, Adapted to the Use of Private Families I'll bet you that threepenny ball of string and the cobbler's wax you were bothering about yesterday.' Oswald Bastable and Others An anna is a penny, and that little coin like a threepenny bit is a two-anna bit. Round the Wonderful World Miss Price gave him a new threepenny bit, and Tommy tried hard to please her in arithmetic by reducing inches to pounds, shillings and pence. Punch or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, November 11, 1914 The full moon looks so like a huge plate, that it astonishes one to find that a threepenny bit held at arm's length will a long way more than cover its disc. Astronomy of To-day A Popular Introduction in Non-Technical Language You can buy almost anything you want at Wertheim's, from the furniture of your house to a threepenny pair of cotton mittens with a thumb and no fingers. Home Life in Germany A quart of threepenny ale for breakfast, with a hunch of bread and cheese, then out to work again in the weather, let it be what it may. The Toilers of the Field White and buff rods are more carefully sorted, the smallest, about 2 ft. or less, being known as "small tack," and rising sizes as "tack," "short small," "small," "long small," "threepenny," "middleboro" and "great." Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon" I have seen the elephant pick up with this wonderful trunk with equal facility a heavy man and then a threepenny piece. More Science From an Easy Chair This ought to have been the picture of a gentleman in search of a threepenny piece; but it isn't. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 104, May 13, 1893 Hang yourself, forsooth! why should you spend money in threepenny cord, when Jack Ketch, if you deserve it, will hang you for nothing, and the County find the rope? The Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous, Vol. 3 Who was a sailor, a soldier, a merchant, a spy, a slave among the moors... Lights are put out at ten, and if you are later than that, you have to pay a small fine for being let in, a threepenny door fee, we call it. To Love Finding himself ignorant of the prices as well as of the different kinds of bread, he desired the baker to let him have threepenny worth of bread of some kind or other. True to His Home A Tale of the Boyhood of Franklin She was grateful for the sixpence I gave her—having learnt wisdom, I reserved the threepenny bit—and I went on. Fifty-Two Stories For Girls In fact,” added Puffin in a burst of confidence, “the study I’ve done on Roman roads these last six months wouldn’t cover a threepenny piece.” Miss Mapp "Indeed I have," said Burke, "and a threepenny blotter too." Daisy Ashford: Her Book Tom procured a little purse, and putting a threepenny piece into it, with much labor and difficulty got it upon his back; and, after travelling two days and nights, arrived at his father's house. Children's Literature A Textbook of Sources for Teachers and Teacher-Training Classes A threepenny piece is there called "a tickey," and till the troops arrived that was the lowest coin in use. With the Guards' Brigade from Bloemfontein to Koomati Poort and Back Then there had been other expenses of his youth: he had purchased threepenny and even fourpenny cigars, the latter rarely, but the former frequently, sometimes singly, and sometimes in bundles of twelve for half-a-crown. The House of Souls "He says every Monday morning his father gives him a threepenny bit and his mother's always giving him pennies." An Australian Lassie There is an almost entire absence of coppers up country; the lowest change is a threepenny bit, and you cannot well spend anything under a sixpence. A Boy's Voyage Round the World The only doubt was as to whether the company could, merely with the threepenny duty, compete successfully with the smugglers, who brought tea from Holland. Tea Leaves Being a Collection of Letters and Documents relating to the shipment of Tea to the American Colonies in the year 1773, by the East India Tea Company. (With an introduction, notes, and biographical notices of the Boston Tea Party) Ten thousand handbills were circulated, and six thousand copies of the threepenny pamphlet, in various editions, were sold. The History of "Punch" Right at the end, like a frail drummer boy, a thin stick of threepenny pieces. The Lost Girl There were nine half-pennies, three pennies, a threepenny bit and a sixpence. An Australian Lassie He came to know that I had a threepenny piece, so began begging for this. Reminiscences of a South African Pioneer I dare say that not a single soul in the world got the comfort of as much as a recovered threepenny bit out of the estate. Chance A Tale in Two Parts The last ten shillings must have been counted out in silver, and he was not quite sure it would not have ended in a threepenny piece and some halfpence. Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, September, 1878 Indoors he made baskets of assortments: threepenny, sixpenny, ninepenny and shilling baskets, rather like a bran pie in which everything was a plum. The Lost Girl He passed the box round, Mr. Ketchmaid watching in helpless indignation as the customers, discarding their pipes, thanked Mr. Wiggett warmly, and helped themselves to a threepenny cigar apiece. Light Freights He fumbled in all his pockets, and, finally, with some difficulty, produced a threepenny bit. 'That Very Mab' Agnetta having added to this two ounces of coconut rock and a threepenny bottle of scent, Lilac was allowed to get ready for her expedition. White Lilac; or the Queen of the May "If she had given me the ten shillings' worth of silver, I suppose I should have saved the threepenny bit!" he said to himself as he locked his little remembrance in his desk. Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, September, 1878 “Good old Raffy,” said he, as the two staggered across the hall with one of Miss Jill’s private boxes between them; “would you like a threepenny bit?” Roger Ingleton, Minor But catch him asking the loan of a threepenny bit of any man! The Continental Monthly , Vol. 2 No. 5, November 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy For example, a threepenny nail is 1¼" long, a fourpenny nail is 1½" long, a fivepenny nail is 1¾" long, a sixpenny nail is 2" long. Handwork in Wood The Government pathologist says that the burnt hole was nearly two inches across, but he also states that the punctured wound made by the bullet was about the size of a threepenny piece. The Hand in the Dark "Good-bye," said the Skipper, handing his threepenny piece to his travelling companion, "and I wish you a pleasant voyage." The Little Skipper A Son of a Sailor Keep it mum, and you shall have the threepenny. Roger Ingleton, Minor Tom procured a little purse, and putting a threepenny piece into it, with much labour and difficulty got it upon his back; and after travelling two days and nights, arrived at his father's house. The Fairy Book The Best Popular Stories Selected and Rendered Anew In this place a small threepenny loaf of bread has sometimes to last for three weeks. A Book of Quaker Saints Poor dear, she wouldn't know Apollo's noble voice from the threepenny thrum of a motor bicycle! Set in Silver G.K. plunged his hand in his pocket, pulled out a threepenny shocker with complete absence of embarrassment, and went on searching till at last he found the prayer book. Gilbert Keith Chesterton The next minute a high-explosive shell burst, and, to use his own words, "There was not enough of the young officer to put on a threepenny bit." My War Experiences in Two Continents Maria, however, insisted upon giving an old-fashioned threepenny bit, kept as a luck penny in the centre of her purse, in exchange. The Garden, You, and I Commonly a threepenny loaf served me three weeks, and sometimes longer, and most of my drink was water, with wormwood steeped or bruised in it.... A Book of Quaker Saints This was an excellent sum for long whist at threepenny points, but would hardly defray the cost of an elopement. The Astonishing History of Troy Town Then a great popular demand for Dr. Crips set in at Tarra, but by this time Nickie the Kid was back in town, amazing his friends with his lavish hospitality in threepenny bars. The Missing Link Imagine a man pinching my cheeks—it 'ud be like picking up a threepenny bit off a glass counter. Sally Bishop A Romance So not considering or knowing the difference of money, and the greater cheapness nor the names of his bread, I bade him give threepenny worth of any sort. McGuffey's Sixth Eclectic Reader He said that he had enough farthings to supply a West End draper with change for a week, and a sufficient number of threepenny pieces for the congregations of three parish churches. Amusements in Mathematics The generous lady, having searched several pockets before finding the necessary coin, bestowed on him a threepenny piece for his trouble! Lazy Thoughts of a Lazy Girl Sister of that "Idle Fellow." "I expect there's a matter of thirty rooms in that house," mused Nicholas Crips, "and after all, a man can get just as drunk in a threepenny bar." The Missing Link In 1652 a mint was established at Boston, and a law was passed providing for the coinage of all bullion, plate, and Spanish coin into "twelve-penny, sixpenny, and threepenny pieces." England in America, 1580-1652 "Have I got to tell him he's a little threepenny King?" said Stedman, plaintively. The Exiles and Other Stories The service came to an end with the singing of a hymn to an accompaniment of grunts and wheezes from an ancient harmonium and the dropping of pennies and threepenny bits into a wooden plate. Joanna Godden Tom procured a little purse, and putting a threepenny piece into it, with much labour and difficulty got it upon his back; and, after travelling two days and nights, arrived at his father's house. Fairy Tales Every Child Should Know I handed him a threepenny bit; but though I waited for twenty minutes, he offered me no change. The War of the Wenuses The waiter said he had a truly splendid threepenny; and Dale, enjoying it, talked to the waiter. The Devil's Garden There's one or two you couldn't cover with a threepenny bit. Hocken and Hunken A gentleman told us he once found a threepenny bit on the road near a village where he happened to be staying at the inn. From John O'Groats to Land's End I had fled from the jangle of a city, and the worries incidental to a life of threepenny sociabilities; and the result was— I had rooms on the Parade—a suggestive mouthful. At a Winter's Fire The influence of hatred on the expenditure of money is seen in our attitude to threepenny bits. The Pleasures of Ignorance If you've anything in the shape of a really good threepenny cigar, I can do with it. The Devil's Garden The dormitories, both of the fivepenny class on the ground floor and of the threepenny class upstairs, are kept scrupulously sweet and clean, and attached to them are lavatories and baths. Regeneration BEN tested the threepenny bit between his teeth—it was a spurious coin; he looked up, but his late customer was already passed out of hearing of his sentiments. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, February 7, 1891 I gave you threepenny bits each for those dear little twins. The Matador of the Five Towns and Other Stories In the nineteenth century, when people went to church, they used to get rid of their threepenny bits at the collection. The Pleasures of Ignorance I was sitting down to tea when I heard a voice in the street calling 'Whiting!'—a fish of which I am extremely fond—and ran out to procure threepenny worth. The Delectable Duchy The threepenny charge entitles the tenant to the use of a bunk bedstead with sheets and an American cloth cover. Regeneration I find I have a threepenny bit, after all. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, February 7, 1891 Thomas Chadwick might have flung the threepenny bit into the road. The Matador of the Five Towns and Other Stories He has a notion that the widow's mite was a threepenny bit, and feels that his gift is in a great tradition. The Pleasures of Ignorance In the autumn of 1759 Goldsmith commenced, for bookseller Wilkie, of St. Paul's Churchyard, the weekly writing of "The Bee," a threepenny magazine of essays. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 09 — Lives and Letters Occasionally he treated himself to threepenny or ninepenny classics, and they usually represented a suppression of potatoes or chops. The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories The good Bishop had been quite ignorant that the threepenny bit was a pewter one; quite sincere, for the time, in his determination to subdue his own weakness. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, February 7, 1891 We suppose the theory is that they have now taken to smoking threepenny cigars. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, February 5, 1919 Nine out of ten people feel sincerely indignant when a threepenny bit is given to them in their change. The Pleasures of Ignorance His fond parents—the late Mr. Gurrage was alive then—gave him a new threepenny bit each week to give to a barrel-organ man who played before the house at Bournemouth. The Reflections of Ambrosine A Novel The sixpenny weekly public already had its needs met; so had the penny, the twopenny, the threepenny, and the shilling public. Potterism A Tragi-Farcical Tract If a snipe were the size of a threepenny bit It would be a great deal harder to hit. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, Jan. 8, 1919 It is put up in threepenny packets, with which full directions for cooking are given. Reform Cookery Book (4th edition) Up-To-Date Health Cookery for the Twentieth Century. The shopkeeper who gives you two threepenny bits instead of a sixpence knows this and, as he hands you the money, says apologetically: "Do you mind?" The Pleasures of Ignorance But this here threepenny' - he had pulled it out and bitten it - 'THAT'S real enough. Five Children and It And when the full moon had risen he took his sister by the hand and followed the pebbles, which shone like new threepenny bits, and showed them the path. The Blue Fairy Book It consisted of pennies, sixpences and threepenny bits. Of Human Bondage Godwin keeps a shop in Skinner Street, Snow Hill, he is turned children's bookseller, and sells penny, twopenny, threepenny, and fourpenny books. The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 5 The Letters of Charles and Mary Lamb, 1796-1820 Many a good Baptist has trusted to his threepenny bit's being mistaken for a sixpence, by the neighbours, at least—perhaps even by Heaven. The Pleasures of Ignorance Of course nothing less than a threepenny piece would do for a crossing-sweeper on Christmas-day; but one tiny little girl touched his heart so that the usual coin was doubled. Adela Cathcart, Volume 2 At the bottom of his trouser pocket a tiny threepenny piece that Stephen had, that morning, thrust upon him, turned round and round in his fingers. Fortitude It is a good deal easier for me to wrap up my talent—which, after all, is only a threepenny bit, and not a talent—and put it away and do nothing.' Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Kings Chapters VIII to End and Chronicles, Ezra, and Nehemiah. Esther, Job, Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes Poor little gentlefolk, the odds-and-ends of existence, the pence and threepenny bits of human life! Memoirs of My Dead Life The popular hatred of certain coins, however, goes back to a far earlier date than the invention of the threepenny bit. The Pleasures of Ignorance Tom went immediately to procure a purse, which was made of a water-bubble, and then returned to the treasury, where be received a silver threepenny- piece to put into it. English Fairy Tales The names of far romantic isles are constantly on your lips, and your bills of lading are threepenny romances in themselves. Young Lives Yet Hampstead Heath, which he could see in a morning for the cost of a threepenny ride in the Tube, is one of the incomparable things of Nature. Pebbles on the shore [by] Alpha of the plough The express came loudly in, and Hilda, having climbed into a second-class compartment, leaned out from it, to descry her porter and bestow on him a threepenny bit. Hilda Lessways It is to be hoped that the sermons are not too dry, that the tea saturnalias are neither too hot nor too wet, and that the collections have more sixpenny than threepenny pieces in them. Our Churches and Chapels Their Parsons, Priests, & Congregations Being a Critical and Historical Account of Every Place of Worship in Preston My excellent friend proceeded on the good old lines of compensation advocacy with the same comfortable routine that one plays the old family rubber of threepenny points. The Reminiscences of Sir Henry Hawkins (Baron Brampton) An uncle of mine once gave me a threepenny bit. A Prefect's Uncle Worthy veterans of the jury, you that, either right or wrong, With my threepenny provision I've maintained and cherished long, Come to my aid! Mosaics of Grecian History The streets are thronged with barefoot women and ragged lads with their threepenny loads of turf. The Letters of "Norah" on Her Tour Through Ireland Twenty-four eggs were ordered to be sold for one penny, but the penny of that period contained as much silver as the threepenny piece of Bunyan's, and of our time. Works of John Bunyan — Volume 03 Quelch tried again in all his pockets, but only succeeded in finding another threepenny piece. Stories by English Authors: England "Assure yourself of it.—She is a creature so lovely, that she needs but be seen to put down every one of the favourites, from Portsmouth and Cleveland down to that threepenny baggage, Mistress Nelly." Peveril of the Peak In the second place, that envelope was sealed, apparently with a threepenny bit. Jess There were prayer-books and things to find, threepenny bits and sixpences for the collection. The Extra Day "I did give him a threepenny bit last week," Constance put in guiltily. The Old Wives' Tale Maryllia opened her purse and paid the amount,—and Mrs. Tapple, in giving her change for a sovereign, included among the coins a bright new threepenny piece with a hole in it. God's Good Man But you can't expect it to be like a common threepenny weed. Adventures of Mr. Verdant Green And perhaps they gave their names and their threepenny bits, engaging to make the deposit regularly on the day and at the place arranged for in Mutimer's elaborate scheme. Demos They shake out the threepenny bits and sixpences and coax out the pennies with the blade of a knife. Ulysses They hold each other firmly round the neck, and they revolve on the space of a threepenny bit. Mates at Billabong The bright threepenny pieces were in great favour, and the children invariably hastened to their mother with their earnings at the close of the afternoon. Cyprus, as I Saw It in 1879 A box of paints, threepence: a sixpenny tea service, a threepenny drawing slate, and a rag doll, sixpence. The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists Those threepenny bits are no use to you; you can't save them, and you spend them in a way that does you no good, and it may be harm. Demos "Every night regularly;—threepenny points, and sixpence on the rubber," said the archdeacon. The Last Chronicle of Barset He went into a monastery in Bishopsgate Street, reached by a threepenny 'bus. Condensed Novels: New Burlesques Of course they were all paid in the evening with bright new threepenny pieces which they had never seen before. Cyprus, as I Saw It in 1879 Among the bad threepenny pieces which had been passed off upon him, and which he kept for small hourly disbursement, was a remark that poor people were much nicer than the richer and better educated. The Way of All Flesh Do you know how much that comes to, five hundred threepenny bits? Demos I split its tongue with a threepenny bit the way it would talk, but devil the word it ever said for me. The Crock of Gold I dare say that not a single soul in the world got the comfort of as much as a recovered threepenny bit out of the estate. Chance A Tale in Two Parts |
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