How To Use fourpenny In A Sentence
- No one ever heard her allude again to her “fourpenny foreigner.” On Forsyte 'Change
- _Coeteris paribus_ -- all the other usual conditions being observed, such as silence, the fixed gaze, monotony of attention -- let the galvanic disk be put aside, and in its place let a sixpence or a fourpenny-piece be employed, or indeed any similar small object on which the eyes of the patient must remain fixed for the usual space of time, and we will promise that the experiments thus made shall be equally successful with those in which the so-called galvanic disk is employed. Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 446 Volume 18, New Series, July 17, 1852
- And altogether I paid pretty dear for my monthly fourpenny piece, in the shape of these abominable fancies.
- Into it he pushed five fourpenny pieces, then called groats, and very commonly current. All's Well Alice's Victory
- Now the fourpenny hop was great old crack as the boys and girls were there in their finery, dressed to kill, as they'd say.
- Each person had one platter of this provision; after which were distributed to them shoes, stockings, linen and woollen cloth, and leather bags, with one penny, two-penny, threepenny, and fourpenny pieces of silver and shillings; to each about four pounds in value. 04/01/2004 - 05/01/2004
- For example, a threepenny nail is 1-1/4 "long, a fourpenny nail is 1-1/2" long, a fivepenny nail is 1-3/4 "long, a sixpenny nail is 2" long. Handwork in Wood
- So it only ran to a 'fourpenny' between you and 'the Panorama.' Aladdin of London or, Lodestar
- To think that a fourpenny foreigner had cost him five hundred odd pounds! On Forsyte 'Change
- Hundreds of women began as the eighteenth century drew on to add to their pin money, or to come to the rescue of their families by making translations or writing the innumerable had novels which have ceased to be recorded even in text – books, but are to be picked up in the fourpenny boxes in the Charing Cross Road. A room of one's own
