Looking for sentences and phrases with the word halfpennyworth? Here are some examples.
Sentence Examples
I then carried home my provision, and eat some more cheese with the other roll, and a halfpennyworth of apples by way of relish, and took a drink of water.
Examples from Classical Literature
But these are but the halfpennyworth of bread compared to the vast quantity of sack.
But in my present undertaking it passes as the halfpennyworth of bread to many gallons of sack.
Has anyone thrown away a halfpennyworth of sympathy upon any person mentioned in this history?
Can it be he has made up his mind to do without his halfpennyworth of milk for the dog?
I never professed to have a halfpennyworth of pity at that gentleman's command.
Madam, I reply to that imaginary questioner, it would not make one halfpennyworth of difference.
Ibsen sets himself to discover the halfpennyworth of significance in all this intolerable deal of irrelevance.
Not one halfpennyworth of property was lost, stolen, or strayed.
A halfpennyworth of milk and a pennyworth of bread must make up her meal.
