How To Use Sixpence In A Sentence
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Alfred gets nineteen shillings and sixpence for a full week.
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_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
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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
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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
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In 1980, the government announced the withdrawal of the sixpence coin on June 30th.
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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Father Conmee sat in a corner of the tramcar, a blue ticket tucked with care in the eye of one plump kid glove, while four shillings, a sixpence and five pennies chuted from his other plump glovepalm into his purse.
Ulysses
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A comrade gave him a tot of rum and a sixpence to bite on.
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The sixpences do not "bang" in this country: they crepitate, they crackle, as though shot from a Maxim quick-firer.
America To-day, Observations and Reflections
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My wages were four shillings and sixpence per week.
Lost Voices of the Edwardians: 19011910 in the words of the Men & Women Who Were There
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There are only one shilling and two sixpences in my purse.
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Richard Walerond is to make two suits yearly, one at 'La Hockeday,' [10] and one at Michaelmas amercement, to consist of one sextary of wine of the value of sixpence and not more.
Devon, Its Moorlands, Streams and Coasts
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Thus, said Friar John, at Seuille, the rascally beggars being one evening on a solemn holiday at supper in the spital, one bragged of having got six blancs, or twopence halfpenny; another eight liards, or twopence; a third, seven caroluses, or sixpence; but an old mumper made his vaunts of having got three testons, or five shillings.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
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As it was pirated, so the price crept up, ninepence, one shilling, one shilling and sixpence, half-a-crown, and then it came out in instalments.
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Up flies a guinea, bang goes sixpence, and down comes half-a-crown.
More on Sarah Palin, Moose Hunting, and Other Stuff
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This, and Sam having found the hay and oats, not forgetting the ale, very good at this small inn, first made me take the fancy of resting here for a day or two; and I have got my grinning blackguard of a piscator leave to attend on me, by paying sixpence a day for a herd-boy in his stead.
Redgauntlet
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Three sestertii, equal to about sixpence sterling, was the price which the republic paid for the modius or peck of the tithe wheat of Sicily.
XI. Book I. Of the Rent of Land
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When you shear it of all its pomp and extravagance, when you whittle it down to the very basics of musical comedy plotting, Half a Sixpence should work like a lucky charm.
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You'd pay sixpence to have the picture taken, then the next week you picked up the proof.
Lost Voices of the Edwardians: 19011910 in the words of the Men & Women Who Were There
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Admission to the stadium cost sixpence (two-and-a-half modern pence) and programmes tuppence.
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Triumph engineers believed that women were unable to park or manoeuvre in tight spaces and so the car had to be able to turn on a sixpence.
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They each got a bowl of uncooked rice and a sixpence, I remember enjoying putting the sixpence in their bowl.
The Golden Thread - Asian experiences of post-Raj Britain
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Then Kahn makes a wonder save with his legs as Roberto Carlos's low cross is deflected to Ronaldo, who twists on a sixpence and smashes the ball towards the goal.
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In his literary creation of The Moon and Sixpence, Maugham received profound influence from Gauguin and his Tahitian pictures.
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No doubt they will teach me how to be graceful on the snow, how to slalom with the best of them and how to stop on a sixpence.
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Please give me six pennies for this sixpence.
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Fergie spins on a sixpence and unleashes a ferocious right hook, which connects cleanly with Fowler's jaw, sending him flying into the crowd.
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'Sing a song of sixpence a pocket full of rye, go and catch a maidenhead to bake in a pie.
THE GREENSTONE GRAIL: THE SANGREAL TRILOGY ONE
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Tea Coffee and other refreshments were always ready and a good meal could be had for one shilling and sixpence.
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If I hadnt a family, and that family hadnt the cowpock, said the waiter, I wouldnt take a sixpence.
V. I Am Sent Away from Home
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Lesley and I were in the school orchestra together in Bury in the days of sixpences and Herman's Hermits.
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See Tomkins with a telescope and marine jacket; young Nathan and young Abrams, already bedizened in jewellery, and rivalling the sun in oriental splendour; yonder poor invalid crawling along in her chair; yonder jolly fat lady examining the Brighton pebbles (I actually once saw a lady buy one), and her children wondering at the sticking-plaister portraits with gold hair, and gold stocks, and prodigious high-heeled boots, miracles of art, and cheap at seven-and-sixpence!
The Newcomes
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Haig separated half-crowns, sixpences and other redundant coins out of the pile, then he began to sort the rest into £1 units.
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As for James, he declared him a nonsuch, and said, that although poor, he would not have hesitated to have given him sixpence for a lock of his hair, just to keep beside him for a keepsake; (did any body ever hear such nonsense?)
The Life of Mansie Wauch Tailor in Dalkeith, written by himself
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No doubt they will teach me how to be graceful on the snow, how to slalom with the best of them and how to stop on a sixpence.
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Item, in the adjoining pigeon-hole, a goodly collection of pebbles with holes in them, preserved for the same reason, in company with a crooked sixpence; item, neatly arranged in fanciful mosaics, several periwinkles, Blackamoor's teeth (I mean the shell so called), and other specimens of the conchiferous ingenuity of
My Novel — Complete
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To remove this evil influence, I was subjected to the following operation, which was prescribed and superintended by a neighbour "skilly" in such matters: -- A sixpence was borrowed from a neighbour, a good fire was kept burning in the grate, the door was locked, and I was placed upon a chair in front of the fire.
Folk Lore Superstitious Beliefs in the West of Scotland within This Century
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In the original, what is here translated a pound, is in Latin, mina, in value of our coin, three pounds two shillings and sixpence.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 49: Luke The Challoner Revision
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He spins on the proverbial sixpence/one euro piece but drags his shot wide.
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As we say over here, your aristotle should be doing the ol 'half-a-crown/sixpence, half-a-crown/sixpence routine!
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
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The rent was only three shillings and sixpence a week, and a further three shillings and sixpence for a week's breakfasts.
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The first man to draw blood was given a prize of two shillings and sixpence and all the beer he could drink.
Times, Sunday Times
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Also, nearly everyone to whom I have recently mentioned the Moon & Sixpence called fie upon its name, so I guess I'm not going there.
Archive 2005-10-01
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As we say over here, your aristotle should be doing the ol 'half-a-crown/sixpence, half-a-crown/sixpence routine!
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
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Mr Harold Boardman, Labour MP for Leigh, is to ask the Secretary to the Treasury on Tuesday whether he is aware of the inconvenience caused in the Manchester district due to the shortage of sixpences and shillings.
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A dozen horseman galloped pell-mell to within a few yards of where I was sitting, simultaneously checking their horses, turning their horses on a sixpence, in order to deliver a volley of rifle fire.
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Thus, said Friar John, at Seuille, the rascally beggars being one evening on a solemn holiday at supper in the spital, one bragged of having got six blancs, or twopence halfpenny; another eight liards, or twopence; a third, seven caroluses, or sixpence; but an old mumper made his vaunts of having got three testons, or five shillings.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
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As for James, he declared him a nonsuch, and said, that although poor, he would not have hesitated to have given him sixpence for
The Life of Mansie Wauch tailor in Dalkeith
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Robert, the journey to London, which had latterly seemed to her secretly - distressed anticipation like a sunken city -- a place of wonder with the waters over it -- all passed by smoothly; and then it became necessary to call a cabman, for whom, as he did her the service to lift her box, Rhoda felt a gracious respect, until a quarrel ensued between him and her uncle concerning sixpence; -- a poor sum, as she thought; but representing, as
Rhoda Fleming — Volume 1
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I used to get twelve shillings and sixpence a week.
Lost Voices of the Edwardians: 19011910 in the words of the Men & Women Who Were There
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Teenager Scott Garnham, star of last October's Half A Sixpence, is equally at home in comedy roles, this time playing the loveable Buttons.
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'If I hadn't a family, and that family hadn't the cowpock,' said the waiter, 'I wouldn't take a sixpence.
David Copperfield
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Regarding the purchasing power of a shilling it is a remarkable fact that in 1939 a sixpence would purchase a glass of beer, a packet of Woodbines and a box of matches and leave a halfpenny change.
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One of the Ashmolean's pictures, a study in silverpoint for The Golden stairs, is displayed beside a letter revealing that it was drawn not with an elegant little pencil, but with a sixpence the artist cut up for the purpose.
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I saw an albiness in London once, for sixpence, (including the inspection of a stuffed boa-constrictor,) who looked as if she had been boiled in milk.
Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works
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He was paid three shillings and sixpence a week - equivalent to just over 18 pence in today's terms.
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The shop was promoting gold brooches from six shillings and sixpence, and gilt paste brooches from one shilling.
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She also received sixpence from the Devil, and "her Familiar did commonly suck her right Breast about seven at night in the shape of a little Cat of a dunnish Colour, which is as smooth as a
Among My Books First Series
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Go in and stay as long as you choose; at the door is a poorbox and if you wish to put something in you can do so -- a sixpence most visitors put in, or a shilling if you insist upon it.
Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 02 Little Journeys To the Homes of Famous Women
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And six coins were recovered including a florin, a sixpence, two pennies and two half pennies.
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However by January the company was advertising again for teamsters and woodcutters, offering thirteen shillings and sixpence per ton for gum, mallee or any other suitable wood delivered at the mine.
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Each has been given a shiny new sixpence to clean or customise the items they choose.
Times, Sunday Times
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He took sixpence from the palm of her hand and went to the counter to pay.
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In very little time my order arrived in a small plastic container and I paid the shilling and sixpence that the meal cost.
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Back when I was a kid we used to put pennies, thruppences, sixpences, and shillings in our money boxes.
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Did I not pay them, to the last sixpence, the sum covenanted for?
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It cost something like sixpence to get in.
Times, Sunday Times
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But one man said that he was better off as he normally handed all his benefit, bar the odd sixpence, straight to his mother for board and lodgings.
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A halfpenny was of course half a penny; a groat was worth fourpence; and a sixpence (popularly called a ‘tester’) was worth six pennies, or 6 d.
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I'll bet you sixpence she "finds herself" (I know nobody _finds_ old maids).
Little Ferns For Fanny's Little Friends
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Even when the carriage is paid, there is still porterage from the station to the place of delivery, which cannot be prepaid - sixpence, or eightpence, or a shilling, according to the bulk.
Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle
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In the spirit of the time, a whip-round was carried out and I was soon clutching a fist-full of pennies and ha'pennies to make up my sixpence.
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In a leather purse was a £5 note, some small notes, and a number of shillings and sixpences above the value of £10.
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At the play-house, however, they charged me sixpence for one orange, and that noways remarkably good.
Travels in England in 1782
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Renaissance play quartos were about the size and shape of modern comic books and sold for sixpence.
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His losses were as large as those of his friends, but in a secret composition in 1892 he paid just sixpence in the pound, only to recover so quickly that he was known to be very rich indeed by 1900.
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A good tree like those in my garden yields me eight _sacks of shelled fruit_ on an average every year; and a sack of walnuts fetches from a scudo to ten pauls (four shillings and sixpence) in the market.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 361, November, 1845.
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Borealian coruscation, which is scarcely within the modest and placid idiosyncracies of sixpence, -- but a gleam of gentle and benign light, just to show where a sixpence had been, and allow you time to say
The Caxtons — Complete
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Please give me six pennies for this sixpence.
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Crumple sighed again — he had learned the impotency of worldly wealth, and would have been satisfied, if left untempted, to have remained happy with one and sixpence a day.
The Warden
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‘If I hadn’t a family, and that family hadn’t the cowpock,’ said the waiter, ‘I wouldn’t take a sixpence.
David Copperfield
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A dirham is a coin nearly equal in value to sixpence of our money.
Flowers from a Persian Garden and Other Papers
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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.
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In a leather purse was a £5 note, some small notes, and a number of shillings and sixpences above the value of £10.
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They expected pennies and halfpennies and threepences and a few shiny sixpences but all the coins were silver.
A Small Death in the Great Glen
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We were given sixpence a week pocket money, which we spent in the tuck shop, so they got it all back.
Times, Sunday Times
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Draining me of the last cent of my hard earnings, he would, however, occasionally -- when I brought {252} home an extra large sum -- dole out to me a sixpence or a shilling, with a view, perhaps, of kindling up my gratitude; but this practice had the opposite effect -- it was an admission of _my right to the whole sum_.
My Bondage and My Freedom
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Time was you could buy a loaf of bread for sixpence.
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The most intense passage can change into musical comedy in the twinkling of an eye; the whole opera turns on a sixpence.
Times, Sunday Times
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Fully qualified men were earning half-a-crown or two shillings and sixpence as the hourly rate.
Tommy Cooper: Always Leave Them Laughing
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These were all purchased from street barrows when second-hand books were sold at a cost of about sixpence each.
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In 1949, lunch cost seven shillings and sixpence - or 37 pence.
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The meters have universal slots which allow the use of tickeys, sixpences and shillings.
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Anger hardened around this basic demand for sixpence an hour - the ‘dockers' tanner’.
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Each Monday we took our thruppences and sixpences to school, where for an hour or so the teachers acted as unpaid bank tellers while they entered our weekly savings into our little bank books.
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The meters have universal slots which allow the use of tickeys, sixpences and shillings.
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But size, like sentiment, can turn a sixpence.
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`We're going for the natural look...' The Crooked Sixpence erupted as the opening bars of `Big Spender ' trumpeted up to the rafters.
TICKLED PINK
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And six coins were recovered including a florin, a sixpence, two pennies and two half pennies.
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'To Mr. Borrow is due the discovery that the word _Jockey_ is of gypsy origin and derived from _chuckiri_, which means a whip,' and he credits Borrow with the discovery of the origin of 'tanner' for sixpence; he vindicates him as against Dr.A. F. Pott, -- a prince among students of gypsydom -- of being the first to discover that the English gypsies call the Bible the
George Borrow and His Circle Wherein May Be Found Many Hitherto Unpublished Letters Of Borrow And His Friends
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If he was really lucky, she would leave him sixpence to buy ice-cream from the lady with the tray.
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They each got a bowl of uncooked rice and a sixpence, I remember enjoying putting the sixpence in their bowl.
The Golden Thread - Asian experiences of post-Raj Britain
