Why at one time he is a hack author--writes reviewals for eighteenpence a page--edits a Newgate chronicle.
He's cleared out the whole shanty and left me to shift for myself with eighteenpence in my purse.
Thither he went to take up his abode, leaving Zephyrine, with whom he had lived for fifty years, without a bed or a saucepan or a penny to call her own, except eighteenpence the poor creature had in her purse.
Of their grudged pension I have eighteenpence in my pocket.
By the time he was ten years old he was able to earn as much as eighteenpence a day, and at twelve years old did the work and earned the wages of a full-grown man.
A cellar was rented in New Turnstile Street, Holborn, at a charge of eighteenpence a week.
When the accident happened she had not completed her week's work, so eighteenpencewas deducted from her wages!
Eighteenpence would buy such a wench, As either you or your daughter Jane.
Fie upon you and your daughter Jane; [scornfully,] Eighteenpencewill buy a good wench, As well as you and your daughter Jane.
During that week he lived on oatmeal and an occasional baked potato, paying his hostess eighteenpence additional for the use of her fire, and the right to sit in her kitchen when he was not tramping about in search of work.
There was eighteenpence in them, the remains of half-a-crown a strange gentleman had given him in Clough End the week before for stopping a runaway horse.
Last time I tried it it was a failure, and it cost me eighteenpence and a pint o' beer afore the gentleman the watch 'ad belonged to was satisfied.
I must have something to maintain myself with whilst I wrote my tale, and I had but eighteenpence in the world.
Farms are often let at eighteenpence an acre, which is an absurd price--a shilling is quite enough; but in many counties you can get as much good ground as you like at sixpence, but not near London.
It is kinder to give him a bottle of something almost as cheap as water, and tell him to come again with another eighteenpence if it does not cure him.
That will make eighteenpence altogether," responded Edwards cheerfully, producing that sum.
Stop, don't be in a hurry; I'll give you eighteenpence for it.
The ordinary allowance of pocket-money at Weston was eighteenpence a week, plus tips, plus what was brought back to school after the holidays.
But let us put the loss by exchange at its lowest, and say that he gets a fourth of the value of what he steals, before he can earn eighteenpence a day, he must rob to the amount of two guineas a week—a hundred and nine pounds a year!
Had he not won eighteenpence halfpenny, and was he not securely at peace with his wife?
I have seen a Revenue Act of South Carolina by which two shillings are laid upon every hundredweight of brown sugar imported from the British plantations, and only eighteenpence upon that imported from any foreign colony.
One and five three," she snapped rudely, and, while Mona was extracting her eighteenpence from her purse, she turned to another attendant who had been standing looking on and listening all the time.
Mona felt as though her eighteenpence was shrivelling smaller and smaller.
In one of the pockets was the eighteenpencewhich had been given to her to pay John Darbie with.
Mona longed to sink out of sight, she was so ashamed of the trouble she was giving, and only eighteenpence to spend after all!
It has of late years so happened that he had not had for that purpose above eighteenpence or two shillings.
It has so happened that of late years the officers have thought proper to despise this law, and to give the soldier only eighteenpence or two shillings.
One can lunch comfortably on a shilling or eighteenpence a day; and I knew places where I could have lunched for much less, but they were in parts of the town which I could not reach in the brief time at my disposal.
He counted over the coins very carefully, and laid asideeighteenpence as being due to granny, and which he resolved should be paid.
He found the old woman crying over Benny's letter, with the eighteenpence lying in her lap.
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