Meanings of twopenny-halfpenny in English

That's young Annesley, the son of a twopenny-halfpenny parson down in Hertfordshire.

All that is twopenny-halfpenny pride, which should be thrown to the winds.

Was Mrs. Flanders's twopenny-halfpenny brooch for ever part of the rich accumulation?

Can you fancy a twopenny-halfpenny baroness of King Francis's time patronising Bayard?

No man in his senses would place a diamond inside a twopenny-halfpenny puzzle box.

Confound their twopenny-halfpenny squabbles! Then the little fat man, with another servile grin, spoke.

He's got some twopenny-halfpenny job in the medical at Alexandria-sanitaryofficer or something like that.

He's only a twopenny-halfpenny doctor, and hasn't got a decent patient in all his practice.

I mean, you won't let any twopenny-halfpenny little chorus-girl, or... or girl out of a shop come in, will you?

He has twopenny-halfpenny French prints of women with languishing eyes, dressed in dominoes,-guitars ,gondolas ,andso forth,-andtells you stories about them.

The smallest clerkships, twopenny-halfpenny postmasterships in unheard-of villages-all ,allthat can be dispensed with, must make way for the friends of the incomers to power.

However, I suppose you would, and so we're all to be offered up on the altar of this twopenny-halfpenny promise you've made to Dr. Selwyn?

"You are always full of twopenny-halfpenny mysteries," and he continued his walk.

"The tittle-tattle in these twopenny-halfpenny villages is almost past believing!" he exclaimed angrily.

'Twas very convenient to lug her here and marry her instead o' doen it at that twopenny-halfpenny town o' Budm'th.

"Pay Griffiths's twopenny-halfpenny account to-morrow," I said, "and tell him that he has lost our patronage for ever."