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Sentence Examples In the spirit of the time, a whip-round was carried out and I was soon clutching a fist-full of pennies and ha'pennies to make up my sixpence. Fergie spins on a sixpence and unleashes a ferocious right hook, which connects cleanly with Fowler's jaw, sending him flying into the crowd. Renaissance play quartos were about the size and shape of modern comic books and sold for sixpence. The shop was promoting gold brooches from six shillings and sixpence, and gilt paste brooches from one shilling. It included a threepenny bit, a sixpence, a shilling, a two shilling, a half crown, and four and five shilling pieces. Helped by the variable pitched props, he showed that he could turn it on a sixpence. And six coins were recovered including a florin, a sixpence, two pennies and two half pennies. In very little time my order arrived in a small plastic container and I paid the shilling and sixpence that the meal cost. Tea Coffee and other refreshments were always ready and a good meal could be had for one shilling and sixpence. This tank-like thing was almost impossible to drive and I had to follow the camera car, stop on a sixpence and act at the same time. The steering is beefy, the turn-in very sharp, the brakes can stop you on a sixpence, and the acceleration is just mind blowing. Trained to turn on a sixpence, these elite dancers are at once quick and mercurial, plastic and realistic, then gracefully classical. No doubt they will teach me how to be graceful on the snow, how to slalom with the best of them and how to stop on a sixpence. A cross from Mark Bower fell to him and the striker turned on a sixpence and fired in an unstoppable shot. I was reunited with my birth mother and immediately sold for thirty sixpence on the black market in British Columbia. Then, off to my right around 10 metres, the shark bent, twisted and went volte-face on a sixpence, gathering speed as it cruised back toward me. Billy and my Dad tell me he could hit a sixpence from 30 yards with his head, but couldn't hit a barn door with either foot! These were all purchased from street barrows when second-hand books were sold at a cost of about sixpence each. Triumph engineers believed that women were unable to park or manoeuvre in tight spaces and so the car had to be able to turn on a sixpence. In 1980, the government announced the withdrawal of the sixpence coin on June 30th. Show More Sentences 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. The rent was only three shillings and sixpence a week, and a further three shillings and sixpence for a week's breakfasts. Admission to the stadium cost sixpence and programmes tuppence. She soon discontinued the groat, Edward VI having introduced the silver sixpence and threepence, although she continued its half, the twopence. Then Kahn makes a wonder save with his legs as Roberto Carlos's low cross is deflected to Ronaldo, who twists on a sixpence and smashes the ball towards the goal. Did I not pay them, to the last sixpence, the sum covenanted for? The stage was crammed, although there was also a charge of sixpence for admission to that part of the house. Mr Sutherland can sometimes toy with his subject, like a learned circus-elephant picking up a sixpence. By 1870s the bounty was up to a shilling and sixpence, and over 4 guineas was paid out in 1879. The profit motive, though, was never enough. We would simply continue to do what we have been doing since the imposition of the free trade agreement: give away the shop to make a sixpence. Best known as the maker of the state's first coinage, issuing shillings, sixpence, and threepence silver coins in 1783, Chalmers's marked domestic silver is exceedingly rare. The rounded chassis combined with two individually controlled drive motors enables the truck to turn on the proverbial sixpence. He spins on a sixpence and curls a creamer just wide of the post. But one man said that he was better off as he normally handed all his benefit, bar the odd sixpence, straight to his mother for board and lodgings. But love, as she said, could turn on a sixpence. The discovery of any such item meant a fine of sixpence. The boxes, which were principally reserved for ladies, and to which there was a charge of sixpence for admission, were quite filled, but not inconveniently crowded. There is a trick for you to find out an Abram-man, and save sixpence when he begs of you as a disbanded seaman. Clearly we have given away the shop to make a sixpence. Except that Gowing strongly recommended a new patent stylographic pen, which cost me nine and sixpence, and which was simply nine and sixpence thrown in the mud. Show More Sentences They just turn on a sixpence and go and look for something else. The sixpence is now in the collection of the Bancroft Library, University of California at Berkeley, California. This car has excellent brakes that will stop it on a sixpence. The deceased airman, from Australia, was soon identified when a dogtag, with name and service number, a lucky sixpence and a St Christopher were unearthed. We never went into the Mixed, where young bucks paying sixpence tried to impress giggling girls in rubber hats as they demonstrated the Australian Crawl. Epics which cost him fifteen and sixpence a piece, and us nothing, are quotidianly placed before us by the fertile invention of this great master of the art of advertising. Examples from Classical Literature He pointed to the heap of abernethy biscuits, on the top of which lay a sixpence. How gladly would I have compromised with conscience if I had had a florin and a sixpence! Or p'rhaps you're a goin' on my generosity, and 'll say, he GeV back that sixpence! He threw up his hands and glowered at me with his gleed eye looking seven ways for sixpence as the saying goes. Come to settle up, there was about five and sixpence that they couldn't 'gree 'bout. I saw even on the banks of the quango as much as sixpence paid for a pound. The insignificant sum of two and sixpence secured me my sign-up for the remainder of the course. Failure thus becoming evident, the taxes were heavily reduced, until they totalled but ten shillings and sixpence a gallon. I gave him an eleemosynary sixpence, as he told me he was getting on pretty well. They were worth to us about sixpence apiece, while marabou feathers are scarcely to be had for money in Europe. I ought to add, that the sixpence got clear, the dog swimming away with it. I can't tell you what I don't owe in Helstonleigh, and I've not a sixpence to pay it with. She'd climb the causey chimney pots and take the silver sixpence off the top if she thought you were wanting it. There were nine half-pennies, three pennies, a threepenny bit and a sixpence. At length, when there was silence, he begged to be permitted to look at the sixpence. Three hundred Roman pence, or denarii, amount to about nine pounds seven shillings and sixpence sterling. A sixpence and the strongest commercial nitric acid and rectified spirit answer for the above purpose. From that point my current outgoings were increased by just sixpence per week, no less, and for a considerable period, no more. He had been promised two hundred kerne at sixpence a day, but had received neither the men nor the pay. The land, say they, is let to the tacksman at sixpence an acre, and by him to the tenant at ten-pence. Show More Sentences Can he do an hour's work in a minute, and live on a sixpence a week? Just imagine, hothouse strawberries at one and sixpence a basket! After the Second World War, it became a threepenny bit and then a sixpence. If I can't contrive to divert her attention from you and her master, I won't give sixpence for our chance of success. When I was a small boy I have pealed many a birch broom for a sixpence. Being requested to explain himself, he stated that there was some of 'em wot you couldn't kiver with a sixpence. To this trio everybody in the court possessed of sixpence has an insatiate desire to exhibit hospitality in a liquid form. An education at the school cost sixpence a week until 1878, when a new Free Board School was opened on the other side of Meldyke Square. The doctor's fee is four and sixpence, and you need not consult him often. So you filch sixpence out of my purse while I'm taking the clothes in. One shilling and sixpence is a kye, now and then an eighteener. He gave the writer of the note sixpence and a barrel pen for his trouble. He dressed in black velvet, and cured any disease for sixpence. Miss Blythe arose languidly and gave him the promised sixpence. We can't charge more than sixpence a mile after the first, within the four-mile radius. A dirham is a coin nearly equal in value to sixpence of our money. Thus quickly was the tale of the crooked sixpence spread about in Edam. It is really the want of the sixpence makes me a guardian angel. When the ferryboat with her wild freight pushed into the stream, nobody cared sixpence for the wasted time but the captain of the craft. If I hadn't a family, and that family hadn't the cowpock,' said the waiter, 'I wouldn't take a sixpence. Show More Sentences You show me the exact spot, and I'll give you sixpence for smoke. But supposing the cost were not sixpence a week, not fivepence? Right sir, heres three shillings and sixpence for a pottle and a manchet. They were wandering all abroad, on precisely such a pilgrimage as a child often meditates, to the world's end, with perhaps a sixpence and a biscuit in his pocket. Why in the world should you spend your money, worry your family, and turn the house upside down for a parcel of girls who don't care a sixpence for you? Find more words! 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