How To Use sixpenny In A Sentence
- Sixpennyworth," I said, feeling suddenly that Celia's threepennyworth sounded rather paltry. The Sunny Side
- She takes out a sixpenny piece and presses it into his warm little palm closing her fingers over the money, her fingers over his.
- I asked Papi why they are called tenpenny, eightpenny, an' sixpenny darters, an' he said it was 'cause they looked like nails an' that nails used to be sold by the pennyweight. The Celebrated Jumping Flippit of Tau-Ceti IV
- Sixpenny or sevenpenny?" said the girl, trying to put me off my balance at the very beginning. Once a Week
- We've added the same lucky sixpenny piece to ours for about 40 years now. The Sun
- It was quite a little feast; two ounces of seven – and – sixpenny green, and a quarter of a pound of the best fresh; and Mr. Wilkins had brought a pint of shrimps, neatly folded up in a clean belcher, to give a zest to the meal, and propitiate Mrs. Ivins. Sketches by Boz
- 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
- Elocution became a public and private pursuit as sixpenny manuals such as the Honourable Henry H's book sold thousands of copies.
- Penguin Books began a revolution in publishing with their sixpenny pocket paperbacks, and included in their early lists an edition of Shakespeare.
- In England, an edition of 5,000 copies a fortnight was the rule for many months after the one-volume edition appeared; hundreds of thousands have been circulated in the sixpenny and sevenpenny editions; it has been translated into most foreign tongues; and it is still, after thirty years, a living book. Writer's Recollections
