Pence
[pens] or [pɛns]
Definition
(n.) pl. of Penny. See Penny.
(pl. ) of Penny
Checker: Phyllis
Definition
n. plural of penny (q.v.).
Checker: Polly
Examples
- It cost eighteen-pence. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- Not five shillings, sir; nor five pence. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- These were about eighteen pence or twenty pence a-day before the tax, and they are not more now. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Two half-pence is all the same, and four farthings is received with joy. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- Yes, he's a havin' two mile o' danger at eight-pence,' responded the son. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Mrs. Chadband merely laughs and contemptuously tells him he can offer twenty pence. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- This whim suited me the better at this time, from the cheapness of it, not costing us above eighteen pence sterling each per week. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- But I love children, and Four-pence a week is Four-pence. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- The highest class pay a hundred florins a year, which, at two-and-twenty pence half penny a-florin, amounts to ?9:7:6. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Anybody could have bread for asking, and a loaf cost only three-ha'pence. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- My pence were duly paid, and the rest is familiar to you. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- More than a thousand pair of Shetland stockings are annually imported into Leith, of which the price is from fivepence to seven-pence a pair. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- The lesson which he thus receives, makes him cautious; he leaves politics, represses his pride, and saves pence. Plato. The Republic.
- Eighteen pence a day may be reckoned the common price of labour in London and its neighbourhood. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Adding machines are made that figure in English pence, shillings and pounds; in Japanese yen, and in the monetary system of most civilized countries. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
Typist: Murray