Halfpence
['heipəns]
Examples
- Some pounds, odd shillings, and halfpence, I think, were mentioned. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- See, my dear Miss Summerson, he took a handful of loose silver and halfpence from his pocket, there's so much money. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- A knife and some odd halfpence are all he finds. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- At last he began to pay me in halfpence at a time; and was full two hours getting by easy stages to a shilling. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- I gave you three halfpence. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- 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! Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- He looks at them with an eager eye and rattles something in his pocket--halfpence perhaps. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- You've got a tooth among them halfpence. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Thus delivering himself, Mr. Pell thrust his hands into his pockets, and, frowning grimly around, rattled three halfpence with terrible determination. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- If a workman can conveniently spare those three halfpence, he buys a pot of porter. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- And now are you all bobbish, and how's Sixpennorth of halfpence? Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
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