Sixpences
[sikspənsiz]
Definition
(pl. ) of Sixpence
Typist: Natalie
Examples
- Bath being full, the company, and the sixpences for tea, poured in, in shoals. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Not even sixpences. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Upon other occasions, this great company has been reduced to the necessity of paying in sixpences. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- As often as I can, said Charley, opening her eyes and smiling, because of earning sixpences and shillings! Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- What we good stingy people don't like, is having our sixpences sucked away from us. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Here, you little beggars, Dobbin said, giving some sixpences amongst them, and then went off by himself through the rain. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
Typist: Natalie