Meanings of ninepenny in English

I heard the clink of approaching glasses-theninepenny creams.

I bought a one-and-ninepenny broom and set to work.

Thinking it would make no difference to such a gorgeous young sybarite as Marden, I took the liberty of ordering ninepenny creams this time.

Some congestion of traffic is being experienced by the Midland Railway owing to the publicity given by the FOOD-CONTROLLER to the Company's one-and-ninepenny luncheon basket.

We left Musselburgh before the first ninepenny coach was due from Edinburgh for (as Alan said) that was a rencounter we might very well avoid.

Your Grace is too young to remember the Ninepenny Kings, but this Bloodbeard is cut from the same savage cloth.

An uncle famed for his prowess with an axe, a great-uncle who had fought in the War of the Ninepenny Kings.

"The War of the Ninepenny Kings?" asked Hyle Hunt.

'At Warborne,- aplacewhere they draw up young gam'sters' brains like rhubarb under a ninepenny pan, my lady, excusing my common way.

"You can't expect to get much for the contents of a ninepenny puzzle, not even the price of a cab fare, Pugh."