Sixpence
['sɪksp(ə)ns] or ['sɪkspəns]
Definition
(noun.) a small coin of the United Kingdom worth six pennies; not minted since 1970.
Checker: Sumner--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) An English silver coin of the value of six pennies; half a shilling, or about twelve cents.
Edited by Babbage
Examples
- Five-and-forty green parasols, at seven and sixpence a-piece. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- I don't go about asking busy people what seven and sixpence is in Moorish--which I don't understand. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Three and sixpence for the two. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Please let me look for my sixpence. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Well, I should put the original cost of the pipe at seven and sixpence. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- On the word of an honest woman, three and sixpence, Mr. Cuff! Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- No, because I shall hae the crooked sixpence. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Not a bad sixpence--strange as it may sound, I replied. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Suppose the man says to me seven and sixpence? Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Three-and-sixpence has been spent in vain--the screens retire to Miss Clapp's bedroom, who persists in thinking them lovely. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Four-and-sixpence--five shillings. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- I told him mine, which was down that street there, and which I wanted him to take to the Dover coach office for sixpence. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Being requested to explain himself, he stated that there was some of 'em wot you couldn't kiver with a sixpence. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Why should I go about asking them what seven and sixpence is in Money--which I don't understand? Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Mastering at once the sixpence and the hand that held it, I demanded, 'Am I to die without you, or am I to live for you? Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- 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.
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