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Meanings of sixpence in English
Catalan
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Examples for "tanner"
Examples for "tanner"
1
It's a tanner who emigrated from Poland in the late nineteenth century.
2
The sensitive touch of the old tanner detected the diseased hide immediately.
3
I wish I were with the gardener, or even with the tanner.
4
He said nothing of Bennet; the tanner's dog had done for Bennet.
5
Otherwise stretch and dry for transportation or to send to the tanner.
Usage of sixpence in English
1
This evening I found a sixpence in the box in my room.
2
Whenever he changed clothes, he transferred the sixpence to the new pockets.
3
A sixpence held close to the eye can shut out the sun.
4
Any one making the calculation will find the sixpence far too much.
5
When the two reached the city their combined funds amounted to sixpence.
6
I shall give sixpence to the winner, just to encourage local sport.
7
Lopez thanked the pundit and gave him sixpence,-whichmade the pundit suspicious.
8
Not a crust, nor a sixpence, nor a rag; and never would.
9
You get a day off in Pretoria and ten and sixpence expenses.
10
The woman prays Edwin for three shillings and sixpence, to buy opium.
11
A shilling and sixpence were left on the table, which nobody claimed.
12
He is very bad, and hasn't got a sixpence in the world.
13
So when Fanny got back, she gave her dear grandmother the sixpence.
14
They paid sixpence apiece for the raffle,-twentytickets,-andthe doll cost L2.
15
At the rate thou goest on, thou wouldst not get sixpence to-night.
16
He explained that this sixpence was not all, nor the chief part.
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Sixpence across language varieties
United Kingdom
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