How To Use Sixpenny In A Sentence
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Sixpennyworth," I said, feeling suddenly that Celia's threepennyworth sounded rather paltry.
The Sunny Side
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She takes out a sixpenny piece and presses it into his warm little palm closing her fingers over the money, her fingers over his.
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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
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Sixpenny or sevenpenny?" said the girl, trying to put me off my balance at the very beginning.
Once a Week
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We've added the same lucky sixpenny piece to ours for about 40 years now.
The Sun
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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
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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
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Elocution became a public and private pursuit as sixpenny manuals such as the Honourable Henry H's book sold thousands of copies.
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Penguin Books began a revolution in publishing with their sixpenny pocket paperbacks, and included in their early lists an edition of Shakespeare.
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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
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When they could eat no more, Mr Pecksniff and Mr Jonas subscribed for two sixpenny – worths of hot brandy – and – water, which the latter gentleman considered a more politic order than one shillingsworth; there being a chance of their getting more spirit out of the innkeeper under this arrangement than if it were all in one glass.
The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit
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Sixpennyworth," I said, not knowing a bit how much it would be, but feeling that Celia's threepennyworth sounded rather mean.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, July 15, 1914
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I bought a sixpenny box: Camembert never tasted so good again.
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With that so tiresome old milkless a ram, with his tiresome duty peck and his bronchial tubes, the tiresome old hairyg orangogran beaver, in his tiresome old twennysixandsixpenny sheopards plods drowsers and his thirtybobandninepenny tails plus toop!
Finnegans Wake
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But she has mysteriously, in the past two years, demonstrated star sixpenny qualities.
Times, Sunday Times
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The first (1768-71, a hundred sixpenny parts), like the second (1774-84), was a compilation of filched snippets.
The Times Literary Supplement
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At ten to eight, the house doors opened, and there was a rush for the sixpenny seats in the pit.
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Three sixpenny and four sevenpenny," I said casually, flicking the dust off my shoes with a handkerchief.
Once a Week
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Woolworth's was a threepenny and sixpenny store then.
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It was, after all, the threepenny and sixpenny store!
The Sun
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Toy horse and foot soldiers came in sixpenny or ninepenny boxes.
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Some families used the silver sixpenny piece instead.
Times, Sunday Times
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Until we went you say decimal he would have been asking for a 'sixpenny ha'penny writing tab'.
Times, Sunday Times
