sixpence

How To Use sixpence In A Sentence

• Alfred gets nineteen shillings and sixpence for a full week.
• _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
• The name tanner for a sixpence coin was first used at the beginning of the 19th century. VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XIX No 4
• She never paid the sixpence, though she lost, but contented herself by abusing Mary all day, and said I was a poor-spirited sneak for not instantly horsewhipping Mr. P. The Great Hoggarty Diamond
• In 1980, the government announced the withdrawal of the sixpence coin on June 30th.
• St. Thomas's Day, 21st December, is still at Otterbourne held as the day for "gooding," when each poor house-mother can demand sixpence from the well-to-do towards her Christmas dinner. John Keble's Parishes
• Most almanacs sold for twopence each, the larger ones for sixpence - two and a half pence in today's money, but of course worth a very great deal more.
• If I hadn't a family, and that family hadn't the cowpock," said the waiter, "I wouldn't take a sixpence. The Ontario Readers: Fourth Book
• Many of the older people in the town, including myself, have memories of the 1950s, when the New Towns Commission decided to increase rents by two shillings and sixpence per week.
• Best known as the maker of the state's first coinage, issuing shillings, sixpence, and threepence silver coins in 1783, Chalmers's marked domestic silver is exceedingly rare.