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But the lining only holds two more knobs than the sixpenny ones.
2
There are two hundred and fifty-one shilling admissions and fifty-two sixpenny ones.
3
Today, as he entered, he trod on the pile of sixpenny reprints.
4
She then ran rather than walked in the direction of the sixpenny-halfpenny shop.
5
The present hidden under the paper wrapper was a sixpenny picture-book.
1
That's young Annesley, the son of a twopenny-halfpenny parson down in Hertfordshire.
2
All that is twopenny-halfpenny pride, which should be thrown to the winds.
3
One or two clowns sat at some distance, drinking their twopenny ale.
4
Well, twopenny clerks do keep up a pretty scratch and no mistake.
5
Was Mrs. Flanders's twopenny-halfpenny brooch for ever part of the rich accumulation?
1
He got up, fumbling for his threepenny-piece, but failed to find it.
2
A second threepenny-piece will overlap the edge of the larger coin.
3
Indeed, threepenny-bits had practically vanished from circulation in the Five Towns.
4
Thomas Chadwick might have flung the threepenny bit into the road.
5
But nothing could convince the doctor to surrender the threepenny bit.
1
Let him think you didn't care a tuppeny.
2
The arrogance of the tuppeny Voltaires in our broadcasting media has gone unchallenged for far too long.
3
"Yer tell'd me as how the sausingers wur sixpence," I sed; "an' the slices o' bread ud cut off a tuppeny loaf."
1
Mountain safety people you would love to come across on a night out are two-a-penny.
2
Losers medals are two-a-penny-down at Tom Clifford Park.
3
Endless runners are two-a-penny these days.
4
Embellished fabrics are two-a-penny on the high street these days, but for the most part, they look it.
5
Hurling heroes are two-a-penny in Birr and if Mullins has joined their ranks, he has done so reluctantly.
Usage of twopenny-halfpenny in English
1
That's young Annesley, the son of a twopenny-halfpenny parson down in Hertfordshire.
2
All that is twopenny-halfpenny pride, which should be thrown to the winds.
3
Was Mrs. Flanders's twopenny-halfpenny brooch for ever part of the rich accumulation?
4
Can you fancy a twopenny-halfpenny baroness of King Francis's time patronising Bayard?
5
No man in his senses would place a diamond inside a twopenny-halfpenny puzzle box.
6
Confound their twopenny-halfpenny squabbles! Then the little fat man, with another servile grin, spoke.
7
He's got some twopenny-halfpenny job in the medical at Alexandria-sanitaryofficer or something like that.
8
He's only a twopenny-halfpenny doctor, and hasn't got a decent patient in all his practice.
9
I mean, you won't let any twopenny-halfpenny little chorus-girl, or... or girl out of a shop come in, will you?
10
He has twopenny-halfpenny French prints of women with languishing eyes, dressed in dominoes,-guitars ,gondolas ,andso forth,-andtells you stories about them.
11
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.
12
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?
13
"You are always full of twopenny-halfpenny mysteries," and he continued his walk.
14
"The tittle-tattle in these twopenny-halfpenny villages is almost past believing!" he exclaimed angrily.
15
'Twas very convenient to lug her here and marry her instead o' doen it at that twopenny-halfpenny town o' Budm'th.
16
"Pay Griffiths's twopenny-halfpenny account to-morrow," I said, "and tell him that he has lost our patronage for ever."