Looking for sentences and phrases with the word ninepence? Here are some examples.
Sentence Examples
As it was pirated, so the price crept up, ninepence, one shilling, one shilling and sixpence, half-a-crown, and then it came out in instalments.
Examples from Classical Literature
I should't tak ye to be aboon ninepence to t' shillin' at the varra most.
Was in the army long enough to get a pension of ninepence a day.
Rather a poor one, I should say, since you had to borrow a ninepence.
Fifteen hundred and twenty-seven pound, four and ninepence ha'penny,' replied Mr Scaley, without moving a limb.
I hate to borrow as much as Mother does, and I knew Aunt March would croak, she always does, if you ask for a ninepence.
I was very much concerned for his misfortunes, and felt that any recognition short of ninepence would be mere brutality and hardness of heart.
What do we want of two horses down here, at two and ninepence a day?
After all her painful traffic, the whole proceeds were perhaps half a dozen coppers, and a questionable ninepence which ultimately proved to be copper likewise.
If you could kindly mention now, for instance, what nine times ninepence are, or how many shillings in twenty guineas, it would be so encouraging.
Ninepence was the sum he had to take home every night, and there was not a halfpenny to spare.
