Halfpenny

例句/造句/用法:

• A shilling changes masters more frequently than a guinea, and a halfpenny more frequently than a shilling. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
• Six shillings and ninepence halfpenny on the very first day! 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
• I gave him a halfpenny for himself, and I wish he hadn't taken it. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
• Another would set a sum--If a pound of mutton-candles cost sevenpence-halfpenny, how much must Dobbin cost? 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
• Not one halfpenny,' said Mr. Pickwick firmly; 'not one halfpenny. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
• Was it outside that very house as I first set eyes upon him, rolling in the lap of luxury, when I was selling halfpenny ballads there for a living? 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
• A halfpenny an hour shan't part us. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
• Some pounds, odd shillings, and halfpence, I think, were mentioned. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
• See, my dear Miss Summerson, he took a handful of loose silver and halfpence from his pocket, there's so much money. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
• A knife and some odd halfpence are all he finds. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
• At last he began to pay me in halfpence at a time; and was full two hours getting by easy stages to a shilling. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
• I gave you three halfpence. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
• But my standing possessed of only three-halfpence in the world (and I am sure I wonder how they came to be left in my pocket on a Saturday night! 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
• He looks at them with an eager eye and rattles something in his pocket--halfpence perhaps. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.

整理:莱斯利