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How to use farthings in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word farthings? Here are some examples.

Sentence Examples
Young lads would then get a few farthings for catching dungflies and mayflies.
There were also the lovely old bikes, penny farthings and boneshakers being pedalled around.
However, there were also crowns, farthings, guineas and sovereigns, all in varying amounts and none really compatible with any of the others.
Back in 1698, the mill was used to forge copper blacks for the Royal Mint to strike farthings and halfpennies.
It has been a difficult struggle for a group which began life without two farthings to rub together.
There were farthings, pennies, oxfords, crowns, florins, shillings, guineas, and pounds, among other divisions.
Prior to decimalization, the pound was divided into twenty shillings, each shilling into twelve pennies and each penny into four farthings.
Examples from Classical Literature
The stolen currency includes ten-shilling notes, half-crowns, florins, shillings, silver sixpences, threepenny bits and farthings.
It offered an opportunity for the working class to save their farthings, twopenny and threepenny bits.
Methinks it is more disgrace for one of our garb to wring hard-earned farthings out of the gripe of poor lean peasants.
Prythee tell it speedily, for I am a tinker by trade, as thou seest, and as I am in my trade I am greedy for news, even as a priest is greedy for farthings.
These sublime martyrs to figures have been known to return to an army commissary, after a delay of two years, some account in which there was an error of two farthings.
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