| 单词 | ha'penny |
| 例句 | “Your mother might want to put in her sixpence ha'penny, but...” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z Photograph: Laurence CendrowiczCendrowicz This was the year a heartwarming about slimy, crying heads bursting through cockney women's ha'pennies became a mainstream hit. 2012: a bumper year for homegrown TV 2012-12-29T00:07:11Z "But it's the little details that are so heart-breaking. Her pathetic possessions: in her saddlebag she had 10 cigarettes for her brother-in-law, fivepence ha'penny and a handkerchief." 'She vanished off the face of the earth' 2019-04-07T04:00:00Z The tabletop travel game is a cross between bowls and shove ha'penny, where players aim to get their discs closest to the jack. The marriage of toys and the big screen 2018-01-26T05:00:00Z One can't imagine New Statesman founder Sidney Webb enjoying a pint of mild and bitter in the public bar, playing shove ha'penny to pass the time. Potent and provocative symbol of the flag 2014-11-26T05:00:00Z The Times predicts a close vote, saying the leader of the House of Laity, Dr Philip Giddings said he would not even bet "an old ha'penny" on the proposal for women bishops to be passed. The surveillance debate and walking away from Alzheimer's - the papers 2014-07-14T04:00:00Z Nobody wants to buy a tuppence ha'penny club like that do they? Martinez to be named Everton manager 2013-06-05T12:19:33Z Even the woman selling me my ticket for Friday's gig in Stockport had her ha'penny worth. Jimmy Carr untaxed by Stockport hecklers 2012-06-23T00:51:45Z "I axed him for a ha'penny," began the man again. Ladies on Horseback Learning, Park-Riding, and Hunting, with Hints upon Costume, and Numerous Anecdotes 2012-04-23T02:00:28.843Z And then to the visitor, "Give him a ha'penny," she muttered. Starvecrow Farm 2012-03-15T02:00:29.617Z And thank God the banker has more sense than you, and a sight more money than your tuppenny ha'penny accounts run to! Ovington's Bank 2012-02-28T03:00:25.267Z Gave the little one a ha'penny, all the copper I had. Julia Ward Howe 1819-1910 2012-01-24T03:00:23.377Z —There is a beautiful chalk down in the parish of Hambledon, Hants, which goes by the above name, pronounced, of course, ha'penny, like the coin. Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 95, August 23, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. 2011-12-24T03:07:54.103Z You had expended on her two hundred and forty-nine pounds nineteen and sixpence ha'penny, besides any amount of fuss, so her ingratitude stung you to the marrow. A Duel 2011-11-20T03:00:13.840Z A similar notion exists, or existed, at Hastings, where there was a saying among the fisher folks and other natives that "a Grainger daa is worth a ha'penny more than a castle daa." Birds and Man 2011-10-20T02:00:25.513Z That we are, sir," answered the woman, sniffing, "and my good man, sir, just now was a-saying that though we hadn't took a ha'penny, sir, this day, we must give it up. Mother Meg or, The Story of Dickie's Attic 2011-10-13T02:00:40.380Z All the sales in the market were of the smallest quantities; little silver was seen, pennies, ha'pennies and sous composing all the piles of coppers. Jungle Peace 2011-10-06T02:00:42.363Z Of course there is no harm in that, Especially As you get the ha'pennies, And far be it from me To contemn you for it. Outlook Odes 2011-08-16T02:00:47.257Z Believe me, boy, I am a cynic where our country's splendid character, as depicted in song and verse, and the ha'penny press, is concerned. The Men Who Wrought 2011-07-26T02:00:16.320Z But Fable Coin Golf is a miniature triumph, brilliantly mixing the dynamics of pinball and shove ha'penny with cunningly compelling results. The 25 best smartphone games of 2011 (so far) ? part one 2011-07-12T06:03:12Z Each pill is worth a pound, let you have a whole box for one shilling and a penny ha'penny. The Life of a Celebrated Buccaneer A Page of Past History for the Use of the Children of To-day 2011-07-06T02:00:45.180Z Sounds like the name of a ha'penny thriller. The Five Arrows 2011-04-21T02:00:45.940Z The basket contained flowers which the child was selling: "A ha'penny a bunch, ma'am, only a ha'penny!" She's All the World to Me 2011-04-09T02:00:16.923Z I had always liked the mere fact of a ha'penny; the sweetly poetic touch of putting the jenny wren - the smallest British bird - on the smallest coin, the humble farthing. Funny money 2010-04-30T15:00:00Z Bit of a spat about roofs in the build-up, and I have to say I'm on Andy Robinson's side: it's like turning up to a shove ha'penny tournament and they're using wood instead of slate. 2010-02-13T12:58:00Z Nothing to do but set her soles against the waa', and in a trice she will be as comfortable as a ha'penny breakfast roll. Deep Moat Grange But at the moment my capital"—he searched his pockets—"amounts to sixpence ha'penny; hence the deplorable impasse. The Gay Adventure A Romance Every morning he distributed his animal to each, and a morsel of black bread, and then despatched them to beg for 'Only one ha'penny!' or dance the Catarina. The Mysteries of Paris, Volume 5 of 6 Because, if you want any ha'penny stamps, you will find some on the storeroom blind. Through the Postern Gate A Romance in Seven Days "Would you care a ha'penny for the Lord Chancellor if you know'd him in private and without his wig?—certainly not." Dickens' Stories About Children Every Child Can Read She was followed by a crowd of admiring girls, and small children of the hamlet rushed out to her shouting: "Hi, give us a ha'penny!" Ditte: Girl Alive! If you wish—if you will allow me to annex one of the admirable and useful suits of reach-me-downs—nine and elevenpence ha'penny off the peg—I will discard the remnants of an obsolete feudalism. The Gay Adventure A Romance I soul' the foal for thirty poun' not a ha'penny less. The Turn of the Road A Play in Two Scenes and an Epilogue I mean, a ha'penny saved now means pounds lost later. Changing Winds A Novel So, my dear fellow, if any of those higgling shippers apply to you, tell 'em to go to the devil with their ha'penny freights. Graham's Magazine, Vol. XXXII No. 4, April 1848 She stood near to her class, so that her voice need not be raised too much, and faltering, uncertain, she said: "Seven hats at twopence ha'penny each?" The Rainbow A ha'penny will buy one of the tiny bunches which they have made up with swift fingers, and they are bought even by the poorest; how, heaven only knows. Prisoners of Poverty Abroad And he never offered me one ha'penny o' it. The Turn of the Road A Play in Two Scenes and an Epilogue Oh, I know very well that the counter-jumper thinks it's very clever to trick a customer out of a ha'penny ... but it doesn't last, that kind of profit. Changing Winds A Novel At this time there remained in hand but twenty-seven pence ha'penny, in all, to meet the needs of hundreds of orphans. George Müller of Bristol And His Witness to a Prayer-Hearing God In vain I tried to dam this tide of confidences and hopes and ha'penny economies: it was useless. Margarita's Soul The Romantic Recollections of a Man of Fifty Hap an' a ha'penny is world's gear enough. The Proverbs of Scotland It is not that I buy the children bananas or give them an infrequent ha'penny. A Poor Man's House "The ha'penny illustrated papers go all over the country before the ordinary papers are printed at all!" Changing Winds A Novel These include ballroom, blackbird, businesslike, halfway, ha'penny, tonight, today, tomorrow and weekend. Happy Days "And let her go to grandma's whenever she liked, and not tell grandpa he's not to give her ha'pennies, would you?" A Son of Hagar A Romance of Our Time The Police Gazette, Reynolds' Weekly, pots of beer, and the games known as "Shove ha'penny" and "Crown and Anchor" were far more to their liking. Stand By! Naval Sketches and Stories Then with a wide-armed gesture, curiously commanding and graceful, she hands out to the child perhaps a ha'penny. A Poor Man's House I need every ha'penny I have for the work. Changing Winds A Novel You mend it with a ha'penny stamp and hope that nobody will notice; at any rate not until you have gone away on the Monday. Happy Days Some, more alive to the big events of a clashing world, repeated the meagre news of the ha'penny press and dwelt with prideful fervor on the latest bit of heroism reported from the front. World's War Events, Vol. I She didn't care twopence ha'penny for the Vale of Evesham—she was just talking for time. The Tragic Bride It's every ha'penny I'm worth in the world, A month ago I came home with a nice warm fortune at me. Capt'n Davy's Honeymoon Especially as I see those tempting piles of pennies and ha'pennies. The Lost Girl And a sixpence in the plate on Sunday is better nor a brown ha'penny, and a half-sovereign at Easter will soothe black anger like healing grass. The Wind Bloweth "Hold your noise and I'll give you a ha'penny," she said, tartly. A Master Of Craft There was a public library in New York, from which books were loaned at fourpence ha'penny per week. Comic History of the United States Surprise enough it will be, and he lands home with a ha'penny in his pocket. The Drone A Play in Three Acts It were turning a bit, Tom Watkins said, and he gave it me for a ha'penny, but I guess frying and a good dash of salt 'ull make it taste fine. Sue, A Little Heroine And isn't it a little more you can be leaving us, darling lad, what with the high price that does be on things in this place and you not spending a brown ha'penny aboard ship?... The Wind Bloweth He is only three and a half—"thrippence, ha'penny," he says if you ask him, but beguiling—oh, as beguiling as Cleopatra, or the serpent in the Garden of Eden, or—or as his mother! At Home with the Jardines One evening he confided to Archie:—"For a ha'penny I would knock his ugly black head off—the skulking dodger!" The Nigger Of The "Narcissus" A Tale Of The Forecastle Now that I come to think of it, it was your Uncle Dan, and a brave ha'penny it's going to cost me. The Drone A Play in Three Acts On the Sabbath eve get one penny for two ha'pennies for the plate collection. My Neighbors Stories of the Welsh People "I don't give a ha'penny over fippence," answered Captain Coffin, patently taken aback by the interruption. Poison Island It is something to see a stick of sugar-cane protruding from the mouth of every child, and oranges retailed at twelve for a ha'penny. Science in Arcady The clasp was broken, and it was tied round with a piece of string, but her little fingers quickly undid this, and from the inside pocket drew out her railway ticket and a ha'penny. The Story of Jessie I don't want the woman at all, but I'll marry her before she gets a ha'penny off me. The Drone A Play in Three Acts It's little ye would laugh if ye saw these two gintlemen dressing the cuts and sores of poor miners who had divil a ha'penny to pay the doctor with. The Gold Hunters' Adventures Or, Life in Australia I'm goin' to tramp round the mines at the back here, an' shave the miners at a ha'penny a chin. The Ship of Stars My eyesight isn't so good as it was, Chetwode, and your beastly ha'penny papers have such small print. The Lighted Way In giving the porter the ticket she had some trouble not to give him the ha'penny too. The Story of Jessie Every ha'penny; and he took a hundred pounds off me as well. The Drone A Play in Three Acts The ha'penny be for the ball of twine we used to get fence straight. Round the World in Seven Days Well, one does read such things in the ha'penny papers. The Gay Lord Quex A Comedy in Four Acts Some one should take the matter up—one of the ha'penny papers on the lookout for a sensation might manage it. The Lighted Way It was he who dashed out to the 'Sosh to get a hundred ha'pennies for the fifty pennies Mr. McLean had brought to toss into the air. Sentimental Tommy The Story of His Boyhood I never mind him coming back yet with a ha'penny on him. The Drone A Play in Three Acts But not the less welcome, not the less—I think there's a ha'penny down there that I missed—thank you. Second Plays "I don't suppose they will mind ha'pennies," said Kitty consolingly. Kitty Trenire "Not one ha'penny," Arnold answered, seating himself upon the table and folding his arms. The Lighted Way Well if that's so then we paid them in full, and not an ha'penny short. Oberheim (Voices) The Lord knows but we will be wanting every ha'penny we can scrape together, and soon enough. The Drone A Play in Three Acts "Would you care to treat that dog to a ha'penny's worth of meat, sir?" asked the man. Walking-Stick Papers One day I blasphemed on crossing the Park and spoke contemptuously of "God and his twopenny ha'penny revolving balls," referring to the planetary system. Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 5 Erotic Symbolism; The Mechanism of Detumescence; The Psychic State in Pregnancy "Give me a ha'penny—just a ha'penny!" screamed a dozen old voices. Women of the Country No one knows better than your old Chief that your destiny is no such ha'penny affair as that. The Conqueror I suppose you spent every ha'penny of the money, too, that I gave you? The Drone A Play in Three Acts So I "set up" the dog to a ha'penny's worth of meat. Walking-Stick Papers We are bound for Liverpool, and I'll take the letter there myself, and then I'll send it over to Paris for tuppence ha'penny, which I will have then, and haven't now. The Adventures of Captain Horn "What good would a ha'penny do to any of you?" Women of the Country You could drive the mail coach, Jillen, through his breeches pocket without jolting over a ha'penny. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 562, Saturday, August 18, 1832. We washed our flannel shirts and stockings as well as we could whenever we halted, but we can't well do that here; and as for money, we haven't a ha'penny between us. Jack Archer Well, I thought, he has been very useful to me, and three ha'pennies are not much. Walking-Stick Papers He must have lost it—he hoped after he had reached England, and no doubt whoever found it would put a tuppence ha'penny stamp on it and stick it into a box. The Adventures of Captain Horn Had I been "La-di-da," that impecunious youth about whom we superior folk are so sarcastic, I would have changed my penny for two ha'pennies. Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow "But," answered Miriam impatiently, "what is it, after all—twopence, ha'penny." Sons and Lovers I didn't know what to do, and I'd only got tenpence ha'penny left. The Four Faces A Mystery To say that such a one "talks like a ha'penny book" is, as the English say, "a jolly good job." Walking-Stick Papers I'd trust Lizzie with every ha'penny I have, but I wouldn't trust that old cat of an aunt of hers with a brass farthing. The Foolish Lovers Not one ha'penny of it have they fingered. With Edged Tools So it's all gone, and she gets no interest on it, and the shops won't trust us a ha'penny more. There & Back But she did not forget to go round for the ha'pennies either. The Christian A Story The expense of this refreshment was not heavy; it came to one penny ha'penny. Walking-Stick Papers They beset you on every hand; catching you by the coat; hanging on, and following you along; and, for Heaven's sake, and for God's sake, and for Christ's sake, beseeching of you but one ha'penny. Redburn. His First Voyage And, look here again, ma'am, stick a ha'penny, or a penny a pound, on to your other goods, to make up. Mrs. Day's Daughters The curious old book called The English Rogue makes the limit thirteen pence ha'penny: death being the portion of any who steal a thing 'above the value of thirteen pence ha'penny.' The Prince and the Pauper, Part 9. The costs of that loaf is, I believe, to be exact, one and tenpence ha'penny—one and tenpence ha'penny to poor people whose staple food it is. The Profiteers Mic.—It is only a small matter for nutriment, beef, mutton, etc., some trifle, seven and six pence ha'penny. Practice Book Tonight up he turns again like a bad ha'penny. The Little Nugget The ha'penny was common property apparently, for each was presently clamouring for his share. Mrs. Day's Daughters What can a gent like that want with a ha'penny? A Girl of the People "I wouldn't trust you with a ha'penny!" announced his brother when he had done. King of the Khyber Rifles As Guy reached the gate, the boy rose and opened it, pulling his forelock twice or thrice, expectant of a ha'penny. What's Bred in the Bone "I will bet hundreds to ha'pennies she speaks English!" quickly reflected the now aroused Major. A Fascinating Traitor An Anglo-Indian Story "If you ask me, then, I don't think he cared a ha'penny." Mrs. Day's Daughters I'm quite cleaned out, though," continued the deserter, "except fi'pence ha'penny. Many Cargoes I gave the porter all I could afford—a ha'penny, mentioned apologetically that I was coming back, and stepped into the train. The Holiday Round I read it myself, in a ha'penny morning paper, too—that they think rather dangerously go-ahead—a whole column, headed, to inquire what's the matter with the swallows. The Imperialist She must surely get well if a gentleman who drove in so fine a carriage, and scattered sovereigns like ha'pennies, came in to prescribe for her. The Woman Who Did How grotesque to make so much fuss and noise about a matter of a ha'penny! The British Barbarians And there you've been and given her a whole ha'penny, so that you've only one blessed farthing over on the whole transaction! Will Warburton Paul, who had never met Lord Ernest, but had once seen his name in a ha'penny paper beneath a photograph of Mr Arnold Bennett, bowed silently. The Holiday Round At last he was offered Ninepence ha'penny per bushel, delivered at the railway station. On Our Selection See here, mater," remarked Alaric firmly, "every ha'penny of ours goes out of Gifford's bank and into something that has a bottom to it. Peg O' My Heart We will suppose that a week's work is worth--one pound: and we will suppose that each of these ha'pennies is a sovereign. The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists More than once, he said, "Oh never mind the ha'penny," and was met with a look—not of gratitude but of blank amazement. Will Warburton Ah; well, that leaves a penny ha'penny to be divided between the porter this end, lunch, tea, the porter the other end, and the cab. The Holiday Round "Here we are, Major," he said in his cheerful voice, "turned up all right like a bad ha'penny, but in odd situation." A Yellow God: an Idol of Africa The ha'penny Press; one takes it in, but one hardly approves. The Patrician And there was the money for the broth bone, and the farthing that would have filled the gude-man's evening pipe, and the ha'penny for the grandmither's tea. Greyfriars Bobby Gladly would Robert have restored it with interest, but, alas! there was no interest in his bank, for not a ha'penny had he in the world. Robert Falconer The flour for the gravy she had borrowed from the neighbour across the hall The last two ha'pennies had gone to buy the bread. When God Laughs: and other stories For part of our currency was the old-fashioned "ninepence,"—twelve and a half cents, and the "four pence ha'penny,"—six cents and a quarter. A New England girlhood, outlined from memory (Beverly, MA) "You'd walk a mile in the snow, you would," continued Albert pursuing his train of thought, "to rob a starving beggar of a ha'penny." A Damsel in Distress The wifie took his ragged jacket and mended it, dropped a tear in an impossible hole, and a ha'penny in the one good pocket. Greyfriars Bobby While the thunder was billowing and bellowing over and around us— 'A hundred pins for one ha'penny,' bawled a man from the gutter, with the importance of a Cagliostro. Robert Falconer I have not a farthing left, nor credit for a ha'penny—small debts press upon me, and the publishers refused my last poem. The Lumley Autograph It annoyed Bunting to give a penny for a ha'penny rag of which he already knew the main contents. The Lodger They were bidding their farthings and ha'pennies for a vegetable held up by the auctioneer, which he at last scornfully flung, with a gibe for its cheapness, to the successful bidder. Twenty Years at Hull House; with autobiographical notes |
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