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1 You pay sixpence , you know, and everybody dances with everybody.
2 I must tell you, too, our father has failed, smashed up completely, won't pay sixpence in the pound.
3 If it could see victories it would pay sixpence , but it would not pay sixpence to assist at defeats.
4 I'll pay sixpence of the scissors, and H. O. shall pay the rest, to teach him to be careful.'
6 Sixpence seems little, but the thrifty and poor Puritans would rather freeze their toes than pay sixpence for their calorific dogs.
7 They paid sixpence apiece for the raffle,-twentytickets,-andthe doll cost L2.
8 Furneaux insisted on paying sixpence for the paper, string, and labor.
9 He was paid sixpence a mile, and he would ride forty miles a day.
10 Paid sixpence for it, too; and cheap he told her it was at that money.
11 Peter Pan authorises me to say that you shall all be paid sixpence a day.
12 Smoking was not confined to the auditors on the stage, who paid sixpence each for a stool.
13 They paid sixpence apiece for their tickets.
14 The four old men were paupers-inmatesof the workhouse, who were paid sixpence each for acting as bearers.
15 For our refection we paid sixpence each, but for our edification we are still, and hope ever to be, in debt.
16 She therefore took out a first-class ticket and also an insurance ticket for 500 pounds, for which latter she paid sixpence !
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