| 单词 | sixpenny |
| 例句 | All this happened in about the time that it would take a sixpenny rocket to start off with its fiery swish, bend down from its climax and disperse itself in thunder and coloured stars. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z His pieces are, he says, an attempt to produce 21st-century equivalents of these Victorian numbers, which may or may not incorporate ideas from the original sixpenny editions. This week's new live music 2011-03-05T00:07:31Z When Lane finally brought the sixpenny Penguins into the world, they bore the logo that would last until 1949, when it was refined to become the one we know today. From CND to Coca-Cola: how the world's most famous logos were born 2014-09-10T04:00:00Z That, as Cissy put it, "would be as good as a sixpenny surprise-packet to them." The Suprising Adventures of Sir Toady Lion With Those of General Napoleon Smith 2012-04-03T02:00:29.527Z "That" was a batch of thrice precious literature in the shape of sixpenny editions of novels and magazines. The Fortunate Isles Life and Travel in Majorca, Minorca and Iviza 2012-03-21T02:00:34.053Z The sixpenny magazines count their circulation by millions, and are borrowed from the library as well as bought by their readers. Social Transformations of the Victorian Age A Survey of Court and Country 2012-02-29T03:00:22.540Z In the carpenter's store forward there were hammers, awls, chisels, files, a saw, hundreds of nails, both sixpenny and fourpenny. With Drake on the Spanish Main 2012-02-20T03:00:17.357Z Mary proceeded to the shop where jelly was sold, an oilman's, bought a sixpenny pot, and took it back to Mrs. Darby's, handing it in at the door. A Life's Secret A Novel 2012-02-13T03:00:17.060Z "Those who want sixpenny shows will find plenty at Edam Fair," was Mr. Picton Smith's ultimatum. The Suprising Adventures of Sir Toady Lion With Those of General Napoleon Smith 2012-04-03T02:00:29.527Z I'd sooner be wrecked on a desert island with nothing to read but a sixpenny edition of the Christmas Carol. Poor Relations 2012-02-11T03:04:00.973Z What the sixpenny magazine is to the monthly press that the halfpenny newspaper is to the daily. Social Transformations of the Victorian Age A Survey of Court and Country 2012-02-29T03:00:22.540Z I would rather have produced the basest experiment in the "naturalism" that is being practised here than such a piece of sixpenny humbug. The Letters of Henry James (volume I) 2012-02-08T03:00:15.197Z I had to get a sixpenny book from England to tell me the difference between a scruple and a drachm, and I'm not sure about some of the measures yet. For Jacinta 2012-01-27T03:00:20.840Z This afternoon," said George, "I am going into town, and there I shall buy a sixpenny printed form of Will. A Drake by George! 2012-01-09T03:00:22.163Z The Literature of the Rail; republished, by permission, from The Times of Saturday, August 9th, 1851, with a Preface, has just been issued by Mr. Murray, in the shape of a sixpenny pamphlet. Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 97, September 6, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. 2011-12-30T03:00:24.060Z The sixpenny value was provided with a watermark as a safeguard. Peeps at Postage Stamps 2011-12-23T03:00:15.610Z Stamped--a sixpenny stamp, as I'm a sinner! A Master of Deception 2011-11-30T03:00:12.357Z Therefore, testify no impatience if a servant-girl, making a sixpenny purchase, is served before you—which she certainly will be, if her entrance has preceded yours. The Ladies' Guide to True Politeness and Perfect Manners or, Miss Leslie's Behaviour Book 2011-11-13T03:00:12.183Z Yes, three-eighths boiler plate—about as good as a sixpenny tin money box. Chronicles of Martin Hewitt 2011-10-24T02:00:16.617Z And the other articles of numeration, with all their derivations, definitions, and the passages which are quoted to support them, would fill a sixpenny pamphlet. Deformities of Samuel Johnson, Selected from his Works 2011-10-18T02:00:19.057Z The large fivepenny, sixpenny, eightpenny, and shilling often had unusually wide margins when perforated. Peeps at Postage Stamps 2011-12-23T03:00:15.610Z Why then should that wretched little fraud, that so-called boon to the public, the sixpenny telegram, burst like a thunderstorm around my head, and tear my peace and joy to rags? The Cruise of the Land-Yacht "Wanderer" Thirteen Hundred Miles in my Caravan 2011-10-11T02:01:13.517Z There we saw daily the Sauba ants, sometimes called the parasol ants, in endless processions, each ant holding a piece of leaf, the size of a sixpenny bit, over its tiny body. The Sea and the Jungle 2011-08-30T02:00:30.350Z Miss Roche wrote other books—but none beside the Children of the Abbey have come down to us in the yellow and red of sixpenny form; for which we ought to be thankful. English Lands Letters and Kings Queen Anne and the Georges 2011-08-29T02:01:10.603Z Bull's views about the necessity of writing and sixpenny stamps are vague, but he is quite sound and certain about promises going for nothing unless something passed between the parties. Res Judicat? Papers and Essays 2011-08-24T02:00:18.157Z 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 It contained a Waterbury watch, a seven and sixpenny clock, a mug—electro-plate, won at a spelling competition—a bound volume of “Tit Bits,” and a Bible. McClure's Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 5, October 1893 2011-07-30T02:00:16.467Z True, there were many who read the well-told story of the skilful journalist as they might read a sensational tale in a sixpenny magazine. The Men Who Wrought 2011-07-26T02:00:16.320Z Within my time no knowledge of public affairs was possible to the people, save in a second-hand way from sixpenny newspapers a month old. Bygones Worth Remembering, Vol. 2 (of 2) 2011-07-22T02:00:17.663Z It would be inaccurate to deny that there was a little loo now and then, also whist, of which the points were certainly not sixpenny ones. Nevermore 2011-07-08T02:00:23.973Z The two stamps are easily confused, but a careful examination of our copies will soon tell us whether each used specimen is worth a fraction of a farthing or a sixpenny piece. Peeps at Postage Stamps 2011-12-23T03:00:15.610Z Sammy went on calmly: 'Comical Capers And Marvellous Feats, Two shilling, shilling, and sixpenny seats.' Baby Jane's Mission 2011-07-03T02:00:10.693Z He would borrow a sixpenny book instead of buying it. Letters of David Ricardo to Thomas Robert Malthus, 1810-1823 2011-06-09T02:00:21.460Z From sneaking furtively into sixpenny hash-joints I got to going in brazenly, and the day I spent my last sixpence I plumbed the depths by pocketing some slabs of bread off the table. From Chart House to Bush Hut Being the Record of a Sailor's 7 Years in the Queensland Bush 2011-06-08T02:00:16.290Z She knew for sure Peg had noticed him, and that little sixpenny tart bloody well knew better than to breathe a word in front of her mistress. Caribbee 2011-06-05T02:00:16.273Z King Edward was first revealed to us philatelically by the halfpenny, penny, twopence-halfpenny, and sixpenny values of Great Britain—these four stamps being issued on the same day, January 1, 1902. Peeps at Postage Stamps 2011-12-23T03:00:15.610Z It is the idea of a bad sixpenny novel. The Problem of 'Edwin Drood' A Study in the Methods of Dickens 2011-06-05T02:00:15.443Z 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 tumult of anticipation shook up the aristocracy and the sixpenny gallery into one common whole. Flower, Fruit, and Thorn Pieces; or, the Wedded Life, Death, and Marriage of Firmian Stanislaus Siebenkaes, Parish Advocate in the Burgh of Kuhschnappel. 2011-05-20T02:00:42.297Z And for that girl, who never wore anything but sixpenny calico if she could get it. A Letter of Credit 2011-05-20T02:00:40.410Z Mr. James Payn recently received £1,000 for the rights of running one of his novels in the pages of a sixpenny magazine. Literary Byways 2011-05-12T02:00:09.493Z The single journal, the Irishman, in a few weeks received £1,000, for the most part in penny and sixpenny subscriptions. History of the Commune of 1871 2011-05-07T02:00:33.113Z He has no more pretension to play whist with me than I would have to cross-examine a witness before him, and I told him so before I won his sixpenny points. Charles Lever, His Life in His Letters, Vol. II 2011-04-15T02:00:16.987Z As there was no paper, weekly, sixpenny or otherwise, with whose politics he was in agreement, this was not strange. Non-combatants and Others 2011-04-11T02:00:11.563Z We bought all the plays we could find in the sixpenny boxes. I Walked in Arden 2011-04-10T02:00:06.137Z The sale of Lytton’s novels is very large; about 80,000 copies of the sixpenny edition, and some thousands of the three-shillings-and-sixpenny edition, are sold every year. Literary Byways 2011-05-12T02:00:09.493Z The swings move to and fro, the wheels-of-fortune turn, booth-keepers cry their sixpenny wares, the mountebanks allure spectators, and promise half their receipts to the wounded. History of the Commune of 1871 2011-05-07T02:00:33.113Z Pall Mall Gazette.—"It is pure, fast, sheer life, salted with a sense of humour; and the reader is sure of being lured as cunningly from sixpenny bit to sixpenny bit." The MS. in a Red Box 2011-04-07T02:00:20.313Z Lean, with memories of some tattered sixpenny novel that had drifted into his hands from England, had even some notion of an elopement, of a pursuing husband or a vindictive wife. Marriage 2011-02-22T03:00:06.867Z For the rest the evening's expenditure was strictly limited to a sixpenny bill of the play, and two second-class return tickets by the Metropolitan Railway. A Woman's Burden 2011-02-13T03:00:21.253Z Boffo eats only the choicest sixpenny nails; will accept no substitutes. Girl Alone 2011-01-27T03:00:36.117Z And perhaps I may note at this point the twenty sixpenny washing books in which Boon had commenced what I am firmly convinced is a general index of the works of Plato and Aristotle. Boon, The Mind of the Race, The Wild Asses of the Devil, and The Last Trump; Being a First Selection from the Literary Remains of George Boon, Appropriate to the Times 2011-01-16T03:00:20.530Z We gets along right enough, for the wife can scheme wonderfully, and toss you up a sixpenny dinner as would surprise yer. Original Penny Readings A Series of Short Sketches 2010-12-20T17:11:48.837Z He introduced five important postal reforms; namely, the parcels-post, postal-orders, sixpenny telegrams, the banking of small savings by means of stamps, and increased facilities for life insurance and annuities. Cathedral Cities of England Very shortly they would have the sixpenny telegrams, and then the increase in telegraphic communication would be very great indeed, and the present building would soon become inadequate to the demand. The Bristol Royal Mail Post, Telegraph, and Telephone Parliament has also established the sixpenny telegram, extended the telegraph service into remote rural districts, and has given very cheap rates to the Press. The Development of Rates of Postage An Historical and Analytical Study Look at this sixpenny Algerian grotto I’ve stuck in the middle of the house. The Cabinet Minister A farce in four acts A perfect production, the best of all the sixpenny weeklies, although it is the youngest. The Call of the Town A Tale of Literary Life Only all this time the little yellow sixpenny lay safely hidden away in Carrots' paint-box. Carrots: Just a Little Boy She bought a sixpenny periodical to read on the way up, and when she reached King's Cross she deliberately left the valuable magazine in the carriage behind her. The New Gulliver and Other Stories The one penny and twopenny English issued in 1840 had letters in the lower corners only, the fourpenny, sixpenny, and one shilling had no letters. Harper's Round Table, October 8, 1895 I quote it verbatim: 'Miss Corelli would have been better advised had she embodied her ridiculous ideas in a sixpenny pamphlet. My First Book: the experiences of Walter Besant, James Payn, W. Clark Russell, Grant Allen, Hall Caine, George R. Sims, Rudyard Kipling, A. Conan Doyle, M.E. Braddon, F.W. Robinson, H. Rider Haggard, R.M. Ballantyne, I. Zangwill, Morley Roberts, David Christie Murray, Marie Corelli, Jerome K. Jerome, John Strange Winter, Bret Harte, "Q.", Robert Buchanan, Robert Louis Stevenson, with an introduction by Jerome K. Jerome. Then they would play a rubber of sixpenny auction just to make them sleepy and, playing till three or four, would so succeed in their ambition that they could not breakfast till eleven. Years of Plenty "A yellow sixpenny, oh, how nice!" thought Carrots, as he seized it. Carrots: Just a Little Boy By the Favourite omnibuses it is but a sixpenny ride to Highgate from the Bank, but in the good old times, the fare by the stage was half-a-crown. About London Such is the credulity of the age, that the author of the "Coming Struggle" will, probably, realise by this sixpenny "spec.," a very nice little competency. Punch - Volume 25 (Jul-Dec 1853) I warned the manager that I was no attraction for the sixpenny public; but he insisted on having his own way. A Frenchman in America Recollections of Men and Things Then he saw the Pink Roses flowering alone in the sixpenny seats. Years of Plenty He gave her the sixpenny loaf toasted and a bottle of ale to drink. The Irish Fairy Book Pretty soon, in the new sixpenny illustrated magazine, Wogg’s picture is to appear: this is a great honour! The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 24 (of 25) The order at Sam's was usually a sixpenny loaf, three ha'pence worth of tea and sugar and half an ounce of tobacco. My Lady of the Chimney Corner This chapter of the Stones of Venice, which Ruskin always considered the most important in the book, was first printed separately in 1854 as a sixpenny pamphlet. The Art and Craft of Printing So he rose to go out and walked instead to the sixpenny seats. Years of Plenty I belonged," says Brasbridge, "to a sixpenny card club, at the 'Queen's Arms,' in St. Paul's Churchyard; it consisted of about twenty members, of whom I am the sole survivor. 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 So all things over earth A common law obey And rarity and worth Pass, arm in arm, away; 299 And even so, today, The printer and the bard, In pressless Davos, pray Their sixpenny reward. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. XXII (of 25) Juvenilia and Other Papers Here we are compelled to start with the year 1886-87, the first complete year after the introduction of sixpenny telegrams. Are we Ruined by the Germans? Brasbridge, the silversmith of Fleet Street, who wrote his memoirs, has described a sixpenny card club held here at a later date. Old and New London Volume I They have either to read it from a circulating library, which does not give them possession of the book, or they purchase a sixpenny paper-covered edition, which makes possession a doubtful delight. The Recipe for Diamonds "So," says our informant, "I had a sixpenny ticket with the others, and obtained my refreshment." A Week's Tramp in Dickens-Land The newspaper has probably done more to kill letters than any penny post, halfpenny postcard or even sixpenny telegram could do. A Letter Book Selected with an Introduction on the History and Art of Letter-Writing His travelling library consisted of a chap-book life of Wallace, and some sixpenny parts of the “Old Bailey Sessions Papers” by Gurney the shorthand writer; and the choice depicts his character to a hair. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 20 (of 25) For a sixpenny tin of English pipe tobacco I paid two dollars, and Scotch whiskey rose from four francs a bottle to fifteen. With the French in France and Salonika And, on the following day, acting on the advice of my room-mate, Mr. Smith, I bought a shilling briar pipe and a sixpenny plug of black tobacco as a week's allowance. The Record of Nicholas Freydon An Autobiography So in a lesser degree does the sixpenny pamphlet, but neither book nor pamphlet reach so wide a public as the halfpenny and penny press. New Worlds For Old A Plain Account of Modern Socialism Only, alongside of “From Palace to Hovel,” a sixpenny “Ouida” figured. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 2 (of 25) The history was published in sixpenny weekly numbers, of which 20,000 copies were sold immediately. Books and Authors Curious Facts and Characteristic Sketches In the form of a sixpenny brochure it circulated rapidly, four editions being exhausted the first year. Select Poems of Thomas Gray I'm not a magazine detective, Mr. Upton; if you want a sixpenny solution for soft problems, don't come to me!” The Camera Fiend Others are being more jovial still; having exhausted the pictures and advertisements of the sixpenny Society papers, they are now actually reading the letter-press. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, December 30, 1914 The holinesses of St. Paul’s we found converted into a twopenny, and those of Westminster into a sixpenny show. Leading Articles on Various Subjects Nearly my first engagement in London was for a still flourishing sixpenny weekly. The Confessions of a Caricaturist, Vol. 1 When I saw her on a pillion riding behind the dean her father, she looked and was such a baby, that a sixpenny doll might have pleased her. Henry Esmond; The English Humourists; The Four Georges Then I bought a kettle at the sixpenny halfpenny shop, and a cup and saucer and plate in the next street, where the barrows are. People of Position At four o'clock one of us is obliged to be, like Sister Anne, on the housetop; and if company approaches, she must descend and speed to the plumber's for sixpenny worth extra of cream. Penelope's Progress Being Such Extracts from the Commonplace Book of Penelope Hamilton As Relate to Her Experiences in Scotland To my consternation he thrust the tattered thing—it was an antiquated sixpenny edition—under my nose and commanded me to read. The Belovéd Vagabond What," continued she, "would you have an alderman's lady send for a sixpenny wicker cage, to keep a squirrel in. The Adventures of a Squirrel, Supposed to be Related by Himself And then, unfortunately, Gustus looked a little too long, and the shilling, having gone back to its own size, went a little further—and it went to sixpenny size, and then went out altogether. The Magic World There were monstrous dogs of China and Japan; Aztec dogs; dogs in Sèvres and Dresden and Chelsea; sixpenny dogs from Austria and Switzerland; everything in the way of a little dog that man had made. The Rough Road In an instant she dropped them modestly and busied herself in the pages of the sixpenny reprint of a popular novel which she carried with her. The Seven Secrets But those were in the bad old days, before authority came and taught the aboriginal natives the exact value of a sixpenny looking-glass. Bones in London Three bottles cœur de Janette—three bottles Souffle de Marguerite—fifteen pounds for scent—and I have to smoke sixpenny cigars! Dolly Reforming Herself A Comedy in Four Acts This was also issued as a series of sixpenny books, of which Mr. Elkin Mathews owns a nearly complete set, in their original covers of gold and coloured paper. Children's Books and Their Illustrators If business kept him from such a hurried journey, he could ask her to marry him in a sixpenny wire, reply paid. Ladies-In-Waiting I dined this day at a sixpenny ordinary in the New Exchange, and after that asked my way to the Savoy, which I found to be close by. The Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous, Vol. 2 Who was a sailor, a soldier, a merchant, a spy, a slave among the moors... "And that," declared Forrest, "I absolutely refuse to do; for, with the exception of sixpenny worth of rum and a crust of bread and cheese, nothing has passed my lips since dinner last night." The Motor Pirate That splendid capability was never more fully realised by the laws of a sixpenny club, than by the great charter of American liberties. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 385. November, 1847. This nearly obsolete saying means, literally, loses a sixpenny dagger for the sake of a halfpenny thong. The Proverbs of Scotland She may set out to be smart too, hung round with things like a Christmas-tree, but she's as common as a sixpenny bazaar. The Dark Tower He was so well pleased with himself, that he even carried his virtue into The Crown, and diffused it abroad over his pint of sixpenny. That Lass O' Lowrie's 1877 The whole of the body of the room is "stalled off," so to say, for sixpenny people, and the penny folk are stowed away anywhere. Mystic London: or, Phases of occult life in the metropolis Davy had prepared him-self in advance with two pounds in sixpenny bits, which made his trowsers pockets stand out like a couple of cannon balls. Capt'n Davy's Honeymoon It was he who took arms against the Westminster City Council in defence of the out-of-door-stall, the 'classic sixpenny box,' and at least brought off a drawn battle. From a Cornish Window A New Edition “Dessay you could, my lad, but I wouldn’t advise you to try a sixpenny fishing-line with a cork float and a three-joint hazel rod with a whalebone top—you know that sort, eh?” The Golden Magnet Her mother opened it and brought out a thimble, a bootlace, five buttons, one sixpenny piece and a penny. Mary, Mary "I'm no hand for sixpenny novels," says he, with a wry glance at the skipper's dog-eared romance. Harbor Tales Down North With an Appreciation by Wilfred T. Grenfell, M.D. I fear something of this vile sixpenny influence had gleamed in at the cottage window when poor Hogg first came squeaking into the world. Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Volume V (of 10) "Three sixpenny and four sevenpenny," I said casually, flicking the dust off my shoes with a handkerchief. Once a Week The Rambler had no sixpenny magazines of triviality, no sensational halfpenny papers, to compete with it, and it pursued an even course of modest success for its two years of life. Dr. Johnson and His Circle Then a bright idea came to him, why not answer these letters with sixpenny telegrams, which he could hand in himself? The Man Who Lost Himself 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 When he came back we exchanged courtesies, and bought, for ourselves and for him, some of the sixpenny cigars of the house. Nights in London Cheerful positions in London mean big rents, and I mean to live among people who have to count every penny several times over, and try hard to make it into a sixpenny bit. The Lady of the Basement Flat View larger image In the Art Department, Sir William Dauber, R.A., will give a demonstration on the laying on of colour to every purchaser of a sixpenny box of paints. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, April 8, 1914 It was served up for the masses in sixpenny editions, dramatized and acted on the stage, and coined into poetry and song. Political Recollections 1840 to 1872 But to enter the best room of the familiar tavern, to order, in politest but p. 193imperative tones, “beer”—sixpenny beer—for himself and “the other gentleman,” is indeed bliss. The Gypsies The expensive sixpenny child was to die that day. The Confessions of a Caricaturist, Vol. 2 I replied that I had little doubt of its rarity, though comparatively a late edition of the Psalms, and at the same time gave Mr. Wilkinson a sixpenny nod. The Book-Hunter in London Historical and Other Studies of Collectors and Collecting Was the twenty-fourth part of a sixpenny loaf a day sufficient to satisfy her hunger? Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 450 Volume 18, New Series, August 14, 1852 You see them in the sixpenny monthlies, with the girl they're going to marry in the opposite column. The Sins of Séverac Bablon The present writer has written an introduction to a sixpenny edition of the first version. Immortal Memories For instance, the sixpenny paint-box, which had been rejected as useless to Willy, was bought soon afterwards by a small boy, who said it would be the most useful toy he had. The Doll and Her Friends or Memoirs of the Lady Seraphina "Hi, hi!" clamored the cripple, like a fellow in the pit of a sixpenny theatre, then said, "don't know much what you meant, but it went off well." The Confidence-Man Our object is not gain, therefore we play for merely sixpenny points. Personal Reminiscences in Book Making and Some Short Stories Here are two rolls of checks, sixpenny and shilling ones. The Youngest Girl in the Fifth A School Story There seems to be no trade; and a shopkeeper from whom I bought a sixpenny flint-and-steel was so much affected that he filled my pockets with spare flints into the bargain. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 1 (of 25) But on the child's answering, 'No, thank you, I only want a sixpenny doll not dressed,' the Dutch giantess was removed, and we once more asserted our humble claims. The Doll and Her Friends or Memoirs of the Lady Seraphina A sixpenny wire—even a cable wouldn't have ruined her, would it? The Making of a Soul “Then he wants two red herrings, a sixpenny loaf, and some ’baccy.” The Poacher Joseph Rushbrook There are two hundred and fifty-one shilling admissions and fifty-two sixpenny ones. The Youngest Girl in the Fifth A School Story He hadn't any of the small one and sixpenny tins, so I had to spend your other shilling to make up the half-crown for the big one. Priscilla's Spies The little girl examined several with great care, and stood some time in deliberation; at last she said, 'I don't think Willy would like a sixpenny one.' The Doll and Her Friends or Memoirs of the Lady Seraphina It was a sixpenny one, and I walked all the way to Dunmouth and back to get it for you—twenty miles. Cutlass and Cudgel Oh, how mean did my fine winter dress appear before the plain sixpenny calico! The Old Castle and Other Stories Yes, we must have a gatekeeper, and provide her with shilling and sixpenny checks. The Youngest Girl in the Fifth A School Story His traveling library consisted of a chap-book life of Wallace, and some sixpenny parts of the Old Bailey Sessions Papers; … and the choice depicts his character to a hair. The Bibliotaph and Other People He had stopped the supplying of newspapers, and would deign to nothing lower than a sixpenny magazine; but the profit on newspapers was negligible. Clayhanger A couple of quarts of sixpenny will do.” Dr. Jolliffe's Boys The plaid drew haughtily away, as if the sixpenny calico might dim the beauty of its colours. The Old Castle and Other Stories I would turn it out into a saucer, and you might take it for a sixpenny pot. For Fortune and Glory A Story of the Soudan War I’m getting to be quite an expert at manufacturing sixpenny dainties.” The Independence of Claire 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 wound was a circular punctured hole in the left breast, less than the size of a sixpenny piece. The Hand in the Dark Nothing that could be turned into copy for the newspaper or the sixpenny pamphlet of the day came amiss to this forerunner of journalistic enterprise. Hours in a Library, Volume I. (of III.) But it looked rather more than a sixpenny pot, so I had a bit more to reduce. For Fortune and Glory A Story of the Soudan War All assessments have, however, for a very long period, been levied and all privileges apportioned, according to merks, without relation to whether they were sixpenny or twelvepenny. Notes and Queries, Number 191, June 25, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. With Boer meal at £8 per bag and flour at £5 per hundred pounds, the unfortunate man tried to make a small profit on the tiny sixpenny loaves. The Petticoat Commando Boer Women in Secret Service When they took out fashion-papers and sixpenny novels, however, she felt that they were no longer worth attention. The Guests Of Hercules He saw the sixpenny brooch on her bosom where he had once placed a jewel, the price of which would now have been important to him. Can You Forgive Her? There was no din of traffic to drown the frog-like music of their sixpenny drums and penny trumpets. Secret History Revealed By Lady Peggy O'Malley Any missile will answer for it, from a sixpenny nail to a six-inch pewter-headed bolt—projectiles which travel two hundred yards with force and precision. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. October, 1878. Occasionally her father has purchased a sixpenny book and has written within the cover— All that is written in this book must be in a good, plain, and legible hand.—P. Charlotte Brontë and Her Circle I have a perfect remembrance of his sitting, on the last day of the bazaar, with another gentleman, in the ticket office, to receive the sixpenny fees for admission. Personal Recollections of Birmingham and Birmingham Men "A sixpenny calico!" said Mrs. Rossitur, smiling "it would be hard if you could not have so much as that, love." Queechy, Volume I The sixpenny ones were barely neat they had no gala look about them at all. Melbourne House Lately I was a sixpenny private; and, God knows, a miserable soldier enough; now I march to the campaign, a starving cadet: a little more conspicuously wretched. The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham The House of the Seven Gables would be rejected by a sixpenny magazine, and Jane Eyre would not rise above a common "shocker." Studies in Early Victorian Literature When six of these marks are recorded, a sixpenny stamp is pasted on the blank space. The War After the War There were, of course, thunders of applause from the sixpenny seats when the Thought Reading part of the entertainment came to an end. The Argosy Vol. 51, No. 2, February, 1891 A sixpenny omnibus will take me back at four o'clock daily, to my little haven. The Cockaynes in Paris Or 'Gone abroad' But that was a thing of the past, so he made the best of circumstances and went to the reckless extravagance of sixpenny worth of fire. The Good Comrade She had now six cents, and after supper went with a light heart to get them changed for a sixpenny piece, at the village store. Mrs Whittelsey's Magazine for Mothers and Daughters Volume 3 Any post office will issue a stamp book in which ordinary sixpenny postage stamps can be pasted. The War After the War A day or two ago I picked up on a railway bookstall a copy of Messrs. Chatto & Windus's new sixpenny edition of The Cloister and the Hearth, and a capital edition it is. Adventures in Criticism What price your eight and sixpenny trousers, eh, with the blue stripe and the grease stains? The Double Life Of Mr. Alfred Burton "I'm sure it was more than a sixpenny one," she sobbed; "I believe he has left them in." A Great Emergency and Other Tales Contrary to the Vidame’s wish, Mrs. Brown-Smith, in an ulster and a veil, insisted on perambulating the platform, buying the whole of Mr. Hall Caine’s works as far as they exist in sixpenny editions. The Disentanglers "Take hold now, then," said Winthrop, "and set this up straight; and then see if you can get a sixpenny worth of rope anywhere." Hills of the Shatemuc It is no small merit in this book that it reveals how much and yet how very little divides the performers in the ring from the audience in the sixpenny seats. Adventures in Criticism There they founded, and there they edited, the Pilgrim, a weekly sixpenny paper devoted to young men, their doings, their amusements, their literature, and their art. Mike Fletcher A Novel I am bound to say that a sort of balcony which hung out at the end was well filled by the unwashed takers, or at least donees, of sixpenny tickets. A Day's Tour A Journey through France and Belgium by Calais, Tournay, Orchies, Douai, Arras, Béthune, Lille, Comines, Ypres, Hazebrouck, Berg Not only were hand bombs of various sizes and descriptions carried, but each soldier was supplied with a quantity of small black disks a little bigger than a sixpenny piece. The New York Times Current History of the European War, Vol 1, Issue 4, January 23, 1915 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 With a sixpenny "ante" and a ten-shilling "limit," the amusement could have been kept mild enough by any one who preferred it should remain so. Prince Fortunatus In all, eleven children were born to him in certain sixpenny garrets in Moorfields. Israel Potter At present, as I learn from those who read the sixpenny illustrateds, there is one. The Open Secret of Ireland It seemed very small to him after the broad acres of his early home, and he was accustomed to refer to it as his "sixpenny farm." The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years Off to Olympia I 'ooks, To see Venice the Bride of the Sea, as set forth in them sixpenny books. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, August 27, 1892 "Good enough," he said, and proceeded to open the jacket down the front, and feel my chest and waist, thumping me in both of them, and expecting me to gurgle thereat like a sixpenny toy. Tell England A Study in a Generation Can it ever be established, for example, by the detached and self satisfied intellectual priggishness of the subsidised sixpenny review, or by the mere violence of the Labour extremist's oratory? Painted Windows Studies in Religious Personality A. Every place comprehended within the circle of a sixpenny omnibus fare from the Bank. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, November 13, 1841 Mr. Rarey's sixpenny book tells all that can be told on the subject of horse-breaking; but far more lies in the skill and horse-knowledge of the operator, than in the mere theory. The Art of Travel Shifts and Contrivances Available in Wild Countries Its first treatises appeared in sixpenny numbers, once a fortnight. Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft Well, on second thoughts, perhaps this size is rather—I think I'll take five of the sixpenny ones instead—they're every bit as good. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 102, February 27, 1892 Tales of terror were often issued in the form of sixpenny chapbooks, enlivened by woodcuts daubed in yellow, blue, red and green. The Tale of Terror A Study of the Gothic Romance He had an absurd conviction that this ought to be a sixpenny telegram. Mr. Britling Sees It Through They did discuss it," said Frederica, forced by her friend into the position of devil's advocate, "but they were afraid of the sixpenny seats. Mount Music "I have only eightpence left; the tea cost a good deal," and she produced from her purse a sixpenny bit and two pennies. Kitty Trenire "If I wasn't her kin when I wore a sixpenny calico," said she, "I certainly am not now that I dress in purple and fine linen." The English Orphans To the readers of a century ago, a "blue book" meant, as Medwin explains in his life of Shelley, not a pamphlet filled with statistics, but "a sixpenny shocker." The Tale of Terror A Study of the Gothic Romance There is a sixpenny criticism lately published upon the tragedy of 'The What D'ye Call It,' wherein he with much judgment and learning calls me a blockhead and Mr. Pope a knave. Life And Letters Of John Gay (1685-1732) His imaginative appetite, having devoured science by day and sixpenny romances by night, still remained unsatisfied, and, quite probably, went on to mix up reality and make-believe past all recognition for its next dish. The Art of Letters A bright dune does very well as a sixpenny piece. Shandygaff Do you imagine they will pay the least attention to a noise like a sixpenny toy? Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, July 4, 1891 It is said that there still exist some great ladies who have not cheapened themselves by allowing their photographs to be published in the sixpenny papers. Our Stage and Its Critics By "E.F.S." of "The Westminster Gazette" Koreans were flogged to death for offences that did not deserve a sixpenny fine. Korea's Fight for Freedom How I loved those little sixpenny numbers, containing whole poets! International Weekly Miscellany - Volume 1, No. 5, July 29, 1850 And at school the other boys would bring him their penny or even sixpenny whistles so that he might show them of what wonderful feats a common tin whistle is capable. The Matador of the Five Towns and Other Stories Cribbage must be played in caverns, and sixpenny whist take refuge in the howling wilderness. Sydney Smith Why should the hundreds of people in the sixpenny gallery understand the conduct of Hamlet, which has puzzled the most learned and acute critics of all countries for centuries? Our Stage and Its Critics By "E.F.S." of "The Westminster Gazette" The stuff was retailed in sixpenny packets, and you were advised to eat only a very little of it at a time, and not to masticate, but merely to permit melting. The Card, a Story of Adventure in the Five Towns The sixpenny ones were barely neat—they had no gala look about them at all. Melbourne House, Volume 1 "Penny points, a sixpenny ante and a shilling limit," he said. Running Water If a sixpenny tax is to be raised, they cry by all means it ought to be double. The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. — Volume 06 The Drapier's Letters They may or may not patronize the sixpenny gallery or shilling pit of the Lyceum. Our Stage and Its Critics By "E.F.S." of "The Westminster Gazette" "I have a bran-new seven and sixpenny book," she answered hurriedly, passing it to him. Children of the Ghetto A Study of a Peculiar People George took the resulting parcel and the receipted bill, and they walked across to Jermyn Street, where surely the bus, with the sixpenny box of pens, was waiting for them. The Roll-Call The father-in-law, moved by an incomprehensible impulse of generosity, secretly slipped a sixpenny piece into the child's hand. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 08 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes One of the bitterest pangs of remorse I ever felt was when a child—when my kind old aunt had strained her pocket-strings to bestow a sixpenny whole plum-cake upon me. Selected English Letters (XV - XIX Centuries) He carries sovereigns in his pockets like they were sixpenny pieces! Dead Men's Money Tea being over, he played two rubbers at sixpenny whist. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 09 — Lives and Letters You go down to Partridge & Cooper's, at the corner of Chancery Lane and Fleet Street, and buy a sixpenny box of their 'No. 6 Velvet' pen-nibs. The Roll-Call Down the wet street, now glinting blindingly in the late sun, we walked into a grubby little tea shop for a sixpenny pot of tea between us. What's the Matter with Ireland? The sixpenny popular magazines had still to deaden down the conception of what a short story might be to the imaginative limitation of the common reader—and a maximum length of six thousand words. The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories Ethel was also of opinion that much might be learnt from the sixpenny ladies' papers—the penny ones had hardly begun in those days. Love and Mr. Lewisham And the man at the table, leaning back, stared gloomily at the sixpenny piece on the table before him. The House of Cobwebs and Other Stories At least, the postmistress would not dangle a strip of tempting sixpenny stamps before the enthusiast's eyes as he was being dragged away with his tongue out. All Things Considered He would distinguish, too, between a library and a news-room, and would find no great attraction in the prospect of supplying the national youth with free but thumby copies of the sixpenny magazines. An Englishman Looks at the World Not so much as would cover a sixpenny piece, to quote a proverbial expression! The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories It is no use conferring sixpenny worth of benefit on a man, if at the same time we do him a shillings worth of harm. Darkest India A Supplement to General Booth's "In Darkest England, and the Way Out" The next morning he took a sixpenny breakfast, and started out to look for work. Four Famous American Writers: Washington Irving, Edgar Allan Poe, James Russell Lowell, Bayard Taylor A Book for Young Americans 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 The sixpenny dinners, as also the plain and "high" teas, were truly a marvel of excellence, daintiness, and economy, and the queue of the patient "waiters," sometimes 40 yards long, amply testified to their popularity. Reform Cookery Book (4th edition) Up-To-Date Health Cookery for the Twentieth Century. This isn't China tea: it's Indian, three and sixpenny. Angels & Ministers They have not quite worn out their sixpenny bonnets. Jemmy Stubbins, or the Nailer Boy Illustrations of the Law of Kindness Some of us play solitaire, some read a "sixpenny", some doze or try to talk in bad French to the poilus. Ballads of a Bohemian Hurriedly emptying her pocket, old Betty laid down on the table, a shilling, and two sixpenny pieces, and a few pence. Our Mutual Friend They are weak and watery sentiments of the sixpenny tea-meeting order. Stage-Land Oswald gave him a sixpenny compass—he bought it with my own money on purpose to give him. The Story of the Treasure Seekers In 1882 a man was admitted to Guy's Hospital, London, after he had taken half of a sixpenny pot of phosphorous paste in whiskey, and was subsequently discharged completely recovered. Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine I grew used to discovering some item of personal news about him in my evening paper, or to the sight of a full-page portrait of him in a sixpenny magazine. Tono Bungay He could not even watch a match, from the sixpenny seats, at Lord's cricket-ground, where the Gentlemen were every year in a worse way without him. Raffles, Further Adventures of the Amateur Cracksman Pretty soon, in the new sixpenny illustrated magazine, Wogg's picture is to appear: this is a great honour! Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson — Volume 1 Mrs. Carey placed in front of her the sixpenny bit she was accustomed to put in the plate, and gave Philip threepence for the same purpose. Of Human Bondage "Were you too good to go to a sixpenny hop?" he said. Sons and Lovers However, without any hesitation, he accepted the invitation, and yielded to the proposition that they should play sixpenny points. Life in London or, the Pitfalls of a Great City For the moment I did think you were one of these smart detectives jumped to life from some sixpenny magazine; but to preserve the illusion you ought to provide yourself with a worthier lieutenant. Raffles, Further Adventures of the Amateur Cracksman Lately I was a sixpenny private, and, God knows, a miserable soldier enough; now I march to the campaign, a starving cadet; a little more conspicuously wretched. The Letters of Robert Burns This was before the time of the sixpenny reprints. Of Human Bondage It seems to me to be descending to the level of Mr. Gladstone's sixpenny agitation. Memoirs of the Life and Correspondence of Henry Reeve, C.B., D.C.L. In Two Volumes. Volume II. So long as she was allowed sufficient sixpenny novels to read, and enough sweet things to eat, she was good-humoured enough, and could do kind things on occasion for her friends. The Case of Richard Meynell Adams begged he might give him no such trouble; that they could be very well accommodated in the house where they were; forgetting they had not a sixpenny piece among them. Joseph Andrews, Volume 2 In another small shop I offered half-a-crown to pay for a sixpenny article—it was all the same. Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 2 Great Britain and Ireland, Part 2 Yes, yes, such sixpenny phrases suffice the seasoned traveler, who does not ostentatiously display his gems while traveling. The Line of Love Dizain des Mariages It is a little sixpenny book; I venture to say you would like it; I wish I was reading it to you. The Life and Letters of Maria Edgeworth, Volume 2 You might as well say that playing sixpenny whist made a man a gambler. Lord Kilgobbin "A sixpenny calico," said Mrs. Rossitur smiling,—"it would be hard if you could not have so much as that, love." Queechy This might be done more easily with a sixpenny income tax than a heavy one. Speculations from Political Economy Of the illustrated sixpenny weeklies, Black and White and the Sketch are usually ready to consider short stories, dialogues, interviews, and light articles, the Sketch being the more exigent of the two. Journalism for Women A Practical Guide Mrs. Sowler answered loud enough to be heard above the hum of talking in the sixpenny places. The Fallen Leaves Lady Kew coming to London attended on the party, and presented her granddaughter with a sixpenny pincushion. The Newcomes Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family They both gave me a sixpenny piece for my ballad; and then they went out. Jim Davis Christmas dinner in a greasy Sydney sixpenny restaurant, that opened a few days before with brass band going at full blast at the door by way of advertisement. Children of the Bush I have had more business done sometimes for a plum than for a sixpenny book. The Infant System For Developing the Intellectual and Moral Powers of all Children, from One to Seven years of Age Loud cries from the sixpenny benches answered No; the ostler and the fiery-faced woman being the most vociferous of all. The Fallen Leaves One of the bitterest pangs of remorse I ever felt was when a child—when my kind old aunt had strained her pocketstrings to bestow a sixpenny whole plum-cake upon me. The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 6 Letters 1821-1842 This did Jack, thinking from our late ill-luck we should get at the most a dozen people in the sixpenny benches, and a score standing at twopence a head. A Set of Rogues 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 Lady Kew, coming to London, attended on the party, and presented her granddaughter with a sixpenny pincushion. Boys and girls from Thackeray "Surely they wouldn't come to the sixpenny places," he said. The Fallen Leaves Mitford was hoaxing you surely about my Engraving, 'tis a little sixpenny thing, too like by half, in which the draughtsman has done his best to avoid flattery. The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 6 Letters 1821-1842 Seizing the soda-water bottle, I stooped to cast the rays of the sixpenny dip beneath the table. Punchinello, Volume 2, No. 31, October 29, 1870 She slipped the change from the half sovereign into a sixpenny purse which Moseley had given her on Christmas Day. The Children's Pilgrimage Half a crown you shall have, all for yourself, and the sixpenny boat that you longed for in the shops. Mary Anerley : a Yorkshire Tale But the hearty applause from the sixpenny places made ample amends. The Fallen Leaves I spent about two pounds on sixpenny postal orders when the Limerick craze was on, and didn't win a thing. The Man Upstairs and Other Stories This small sixpenny gift, accompanied by prayer, had done a work. God's Answers A Record of Miss Annie Macpherson's Work at the Home of Industry, Spitalfields, London, and in Canada If you think what I have drawn up worth printing, I should suppose it might make a little sixpenny paper, and be sold for the same purpose it is written. The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay — Volume 3 For a fuller statement, please see the R.P.A. sixpenny edition of Huxley's Lectures and Essays, and Christianity and Mythology, by J. M. Robertson. God and my Neighbour A compost heap is like a sixpenny savings bank. Success with Small Fruits Feeling that this certainly had become the case in reference to novels published in shilling numbers, Mr. Smith and I determined to make the experiment with sixpenny parts. Autobiography of Anthony Trollope She pictured to herself with a shudder the effect of a sixpenny Chinese umbrella in that fireplace, a cretonne valance to that bed, or chintz curtains to those windows. Cashel Byron's Profession Wells and Shaw and the serious sixpenny weeklies will sit on its head. Jacob's Room And of these books I shall, first of all, heartily recommend the series of cheap sixpenny reprints now published by the Rationalist Press Association, Johnson's Court, London, E.C. God and my Neighbour On the present occasion a great many sixpenny points were scored, and much tea and cake were consumed. He Knew He Was Right A sixpenny answer is come out, good for nothing, but guessing me, among others, for the author. The Journal to Stella I hear from some persons in Parliament, and from others in the sixpenny societies for debate, a great deal about unalterable laws passed at the Revolution. Peter Plymley's Letters, and selected essays "Well, it did seem absurd that you should risk so much to keep a sixpenny umbrella," he rejoined, drily. The Judgment House He was always in a shilling sweep, a sixpenny raffle, a hundred to one double on the Cup. Jonah A box of paints, threepence: a sixpenny tea service, a threepenny drawing slate, and a rag doll, sixpence. The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists I bought a sixpenny family magazine, and found it full of pictures of young men shooting and stabbing one another. Man and Superman I could not find any sixpenny entrance and, fearing that the bazaar would be closed, I passed in quickly through a turnstile, handing a shilling to a weary-looking man. Dubliners I don't like sixpenny points, Horace, or quarrelling with old dragons about the odd trick. The Wolves and the Lamb The quality had not yet arrived: for humbler folk had partaken of very early dinner so as to get plenty of fun, and long hours of delight for the sixpenny toll demanded at the gates. The Elusive Pimpernel Do not whist-players, for example, toil, and think, and lose their temper over sixpenny points? Roundabout Papers Then he tore up the sixpenny reprints, and never amused Mrs. Failing so much again. The Longest Journey When I saw her on a pillion, riding behind the Dean her father, she looked and was such a baby, that a sixpenny doll might have pleased her. The History of Henry Esmond, Esq. A Colonel in the Service of Her Majesty Queen Anne In a firm, bold handwriting Mrs. Bergmann signed her name in red ink across the sixpenny stamp. Orpheus in Mayfair and Other Stories and Sketches They are discovered in the woods, in a cave, playing whist for sixpenny points. They and I Don't tell me that it is the sixpenny points, and five shillings the rub, which keeps them for hours over their painted pasteboard. Roundabout Papers Open that cupboard, one of those sixpenny books tells Podge that he's made of hard little black things, another that he's made of brown things, larger and squashy. The Longest Journey What greater stronghold of virtue than your sixpenny gallery? Tea-Table Talk Waiters peered austerely from the windows of the two Italian restaurants which carry on the Lucretia Borgia tradition by means of one shilling and sixpenny table d'hôte luncheons. A Damsel in Distress They published paragraphs in the newspapers, articles in the magazines, sixpenny pamphlets, five-shilling books. Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 3 It is but a sixpenny game if you like; but they want to win it. Roundabout Papers Today, as he entered, he trod on the pile of sixpenny reprints. The Longest Journey I suppose the learned friend has written a sixpenny treatise on mechanics, and the rascals who robbed me have been reading it. Crotchet Castle He writes in the Christmas number of an illustrated sixpenny magazine, and his article, a really masterly compendium of the whole Baconian delirium, addresses its natural public. The Valet's tragedy, and other studies But in general he dined, and thought that he dined well, on sixpenny worth of meat, and a pennyworth of bread, at an alehouse near Drury Lane. Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 3 Erica bought a little sixpenny copy and went back to the beach, where she made her father laugh over her story. We Two, a novel Egeria had come to the Inn to sleep, and stole into my room to warm her toes before the blaze in my grate, for I was chilly and had ordered a sixpenny fire. Penelope's Postscripts They learn about anarchists from sixpenny novels; they learn about anarchists from tradesmen's newspapers; they learn about anarchists from Ally Sloper's Half-Holiday and the Sporting Times. The Man Who Was Thursday, a nightmare The present hidden under the paper wrapper was a sixpenny picture-book. The Evil Genius For me, the great thing was my sixpenny miracle. The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft He drew from his breast pocket a little sixpenny looking-glass, and hung it on one of the roots that stuck out from the bank. The Story of an African Farm, a novel They discussed their route over his sixpenny county map for the sake of talking, but avoided a decision in the presence of the attendant. The Wheels of Chance: a Bicycling Idyll But his manner was no more self-contained and well-to-do than it had been in the old sixpenny days—because it couldn't be. On the Track |
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