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Meanings of sixpenny in English

Of trifling worth.

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        Examples for "twopenny"
        Examples for "twopenny"
        1
        That's young Annesley, the son of a twopenny-halfpenny parson down in Hertfordshire.
        Mr. Scarborough's Family
        2
        All that is twopenny-halfpenny pride, which should be thrown to the winds.
        He Knew He Was Right
        3
        One or two clowns sat at some distance, drinking their twopenny ale.
        Guy Mannering, Or, the Astrologer — Volume 01
        4
        Well, twopenny clerks do keep up a pretty scratch and no mistake.
        Broken to the Plow / A Novel
        5
        Was Mrs. Flanders's twopenny-halfpenny brooch for ever part of the rich accumulation?
        Jacob's Room
        1
        He got up, fumbling for his threepenny-piece, but failed to find it.
        Far Above Rubies
        2
        A second threepenny-piece will overlap the edge of the larger coin.
        Amusements in Mathematics
        3
        Indeed, threepenny-bits had practically vanished from circulation in the Five Towns.
        The Card, a Story of Adventure in the Five Towns
        4
        Thomas Chadwick might have flung the threepenny bit into the road.
        The Matador of the Five Towns and Other Stories
        5
        But nothing could convince the doctor to surrender the threepenny bit.
        The tower, the zoo and the tortoise
        1
        Let him think you didn't care a tuppeny.
        The Honorable Percival
        2
        The arrogance of the tuppeny Voltaires in our broadcasting media has gone unchallenged for far too long.
        The Irish Times
        3
        "Yer tell'd me as how the sausingers wur sixpence," I sed; "an' the slices o' bread ud cut off a tuppeny loaf."
        A Cotswold Village; Or, Country Life and Pursuits in Gloucesters...
        1
        Mountain safety people you would love to come across on a night out are two-a-penny.
        The Irish Times
        2
        Losers medals are two-a-penny-down at Tom Clifford Park.
        The Irish Times
        3
        Endless runners are two-a-penny these days.
        The Irish Times
        4
        Embellished fabrics are two-a-penny on the high street these days, but for the most part, they look it.
        The Guardian
        5
        Hurling heroes are two-a-penny in Birr and if Mullins has joined their ranks, he has done so reluctantly.
        The Irish Times
        1
        That's young Annesley, the son of a twopenny-halfpenny parson down in Hertfordshire.
        Mr. Scarborough's Family
        2
        All that is twopenny-halfpenny pride, which should be thrown to the winds.
        He Knew He Was Right
        3
        Was Mrs. Flanders's twopenny-halfpenny brooch for ever part of the rich accumulation?
        Jacob's Room
        4
        Can you fancy a twopenny-halfpenny baroness of King Francis's time patronising Bayard?
        The Newcomes: Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family
        5
        No man in his senses would place a diamond inside a twopenny-halfpenny puzzle box.
        The Lock and Key Library: Classic Mystery and Detective Stories:...
        Usage of sixpenny in English
        1
        But the lining only holds two more knobs than the sixpenny ones.
        The Splendid Folly
        2
        There are two hundred and fifty-one shilling admissions and fifty-two sixpenny ones.
        The Youngest Girl in the Fifth: A School Story
        3
        Today, as he entered, he trod on the pile of sixpenny reprints.
        The Longest Journey
        4
        She then ran rather than walked in the direction of the sixpenny-halfpenny shop.
        The Little White Bird; Or, Adventures in Kensington Gardens
        5
        The present hidden under the paper wrapper was a sixpenny picture-book.
        The Evil Genius: A Domestic Story
        6
        But the hearty applause from the sixpenny places made ample amends.
        The Fallen Leaves
        7
        Wells and Shaw and the serious sixpenny weeklies will sit on its head.
        Jacob's Room
        8
        They are weak and watery sentiments of the sixpenny tea-meeting order.
        Stage-Land
        9
        He stood there before the sixpenny-ha'penny mirror and drank the cup of humiliation.
        The Double Life Of Mr. Alfred Burton
        10
        Then he tore up the sixpenny reprints, and never amused Mrs.
        The Longest Journey
        11
        It's not that; that's a sixpenny toy hell;-it'sthe INNER darkness.
        The Gadfly
        12
        He had an absurd conviction that this ought to be a sixpenny telegram.
        Mr. Britling Sees It Through
        13
        Miss Douglas has just bought sixpenny-worth, and she has nothing but a florin.
        The Youngest Girl in the Fifth: A School Story
        14
        This small sixpenny gift, accompanied by prayer, had done a work.
        God's Answers / A Record of Miss Annie Macpherson's Work at the ...
        15
        I think all solemn men ought to take sixpenny-worth of Charlie Chaplin occasionally.
        Pebbles on the shore [by] Alpha of the plough
        16
        I'm getting to be quite an expert at manufacturing sixpenny dainties.
        The Independence of Claire
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