Eightpence

Examples

• Rachael, pay the eightpence! Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Six shillings and eightpence was then, and long afterwards, reckoned the average price of a quarter of wheat. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Guster replied that he insistes on one and eightpence or on summonsizzing the party. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• My friends, says Chadband, eightpence is not much; it might justly have been one and fourpence; it might justly have been half a crown. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• In 1512, six shillings and eightpence contained only two ounces of silver, Tower weight, and were equal to about ten shillings of our present money. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• In 1614, the pay of a foot soldier was the same as in the present times, eightpence a-day. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Eight shillings for a bed and eightpence for a glass of sherry pointed to one of the most expensive hotels. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• At the rate of six shillings and eightpence the quarter, ten shillings was in those ancient times the price of twelve bushels of wheat. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Four minae were equal to thirteen pounds six shillings and eightpence; five minae to sixteen pounds thirteen shillings and fourpence. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• This is Grosvenor mixture at eightpence an ounce, Holmes answered, knocking a little out on his palm. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• In one of them it is computed at six shilling and eightpence the quarter, in the other at five shillings and eightpence only. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Here's but seven and eightpence halfpenny! Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.

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