| 单词 | twopenny-halfpenny |
| 例句 | The lowest on the scale were the costers who bought a single lot from the auctioneer and sorted it into quantities "he knows will suit the twopenny-halfpenny customers who are all he can hope for". London's callings: Odd, obsolete and old jobs in the capital 2021-12-30T05:00:00Z Good God! do you suppose I care two straws about risking my twopenny-halfpenny life when it is for you?” Paddy-The-Next-Best-Thing 2011-12-08T03:00:28.210Z "You don't mean to say that I'm to be dragged into a court of law because of that twopenny-halfpenny bag?" Between the Dark and the Daylight 2011-11-11T03:00:37.893Z "The loss of a twopenny-halfpenny stone is of more consequence to her than the chance of losing her life." The Wireless Officer 2011-10-24T02:00:17.560Z His gladiators were a wretched, weedy, twopenny-halfpenny lot, who would go down at a mere breath. Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius To be recommended to the Companion, and advised to cut down her masterpiece for the approval of its twopenny-halfpenny editor, was humiliation indeed for the would-be contributor to the Casket. The Daughters of a Genius See if he’ll see me insulted by a twopenny-halfpenny magistrate’s clerk.” A Veldt Official A Novel of Circumstance What have your twopenny-halfpenny science primers to do with the grand secret of toddy? The Galaxy Vol. 23, No. 1 Now, I should rather like you to be a singer—only be a great one—not a little twopenny-halfpenny person who has to advertise for engagements. The First Violin A Novel As if that twopenny-halfpenny pendant of Miss Heritage's could—but the Court Godmother will be annoyed if I don't follow her advice—and it's best not to offend the old creature. In Brief Authority How is any one to believe in her fortune if she dresses in that twopenny-halfpenny fashion? Hopes and Fears or, scenes from the life of a spinster "Pay Griffiths's twopenny-halfpenny account to-morrow," I said, "and tell him that he has lost our patronage for ever." Eliza To call that grand if barren promontory after a twopenny-halfpenny Dutch cockle-shell is a gross insult to the thousands of miles of sea between that point and any other land. The Confessions of a Caricaturist, Vol. 2 “Ah, take care, take care, Hadria; that is a mood in which one may mistake any twopenny-halfpenny little luminary for the impossible moon.” The Daughters of Danaus Here’s every common, twopenny-halfpenny Malay looking down upon my fellows, while there isn’t one among my lads who isn’t a better man than their Rajah. Trapped by Malays A Tale of Bayonet and Kris Just a twopenny-halfpenny handkercher that her Tom would be ashamed to wear!” The Carbonels A parcel of miserable Leicester Square conspirators, plundering the working-man of all countries of his small savings, and humbugging him with promises of twopenny-halfpenny revolutions! Sunrise She bought a cheap cushion at one of Liberty's sales, and some bits of twopenny-halfpenny art china for her narrow mantelpiece. Emily Fox-Seton Being "The Making of a Marchioness" and "The Methods of Lady Walderhurst" The fact was he was giving it hot to the twopenny-halfpenny painters, the men with the usurped reputations! His Masterpiece They have produced greater minds when, the mass of their countrymen were steeped in brutality, and Elizabethan surfeit of beef and ale, than they will ever produce with a twopenny-halfpenny universal education. Doctor Claudius, A True Story My poor little all—twenty pounds—is gone on twopenny-halfpenny presents during the past week or two. Children of the Mist "You are always full of twopenny-halfpenny mysteries," and he continued his walk. Colonel Quaritch, V.C. A Tale of Country Life The smallest clerkships, twopenny-halfpenny postmasterships in unheard-of villages—all, all that can be dispensed with, must make way for the friends of the incomers to power. Lands of the Slave and the Free Cuba, the United States, and Canada He's got some twopenny-halfpenny job in the medical at Alexandria—sanitary officer or something like that. Moon and Sixpence I was nobbled one day, without a moment's warning, on a twopenny-halfpenny charge of burglary—never you mind whether it was true, or whether it was false—that ain't worth going into. Run to Earth A Novel "The tittle-tattle in these twopenny-halfpenny villages is almost past believing!" he exclaimed angrily. The Vision of Desire Can you fancy a twopenny-halfpenny baroness of King Francis's time patronising Bayard? The Newcomes Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family All that is twopenny-halfpenny pride, which should be thrown to the winds. He Knew He Was Right The sight of the cudgels and scythes exasperated him; and he made desperate efforts to restrain himself from treating these twopenny-halfpenny soldiers, who had not even a gun apiece, as they deserved. The Fortune of the Rougons That means, 'O Moon—more beautiful than any twopenny-halfpenny daughter.' Dear Brutus I resent her putting her hands on my shoulders, and, as the twopenny-halfpenny poets say, fanning my cheek with her breath. Simon the Jester Some changes have been forced upon us; little things which they had forgotten—quite minor matters; and they now say that they will be obliged to divide against us on these twopenny-halfpenny, hair-splitting points. Framley Parsonage He has twopenny-halfpenny French prints of women with languishing eyes, dressed in dominoes,—guitars, gondolas, and so forth,—and tells you stories about them. The Book of Snobs No man in his senses would place a diamond inside a twopenny-halfpenny puzzle box. The Lock and Key Library Classic Mystery and Detective Stories: Modern English "I've found my razors," he said, looking up, "and every twopenny-halfpenny thing out of my traveling bag; but the papers, of course, are nowhere." We Two, a novel Murray sent a directed envelope with a twopenny-halfpenny stamp. Robert F. Murray: His Poems with a Memoir |
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