Twenty times fivepence halfpenny is nine shillings and twopence, which is above a hundred and sixty pounds a year; wherein you will be losers of at least one hundred and forty pounds by taking your payments in his money.
He promises, that no person shall be obliged to receive more thanfivepence halfpenny of his coin in one payment.
Wood will oblige and force you to takefivepence halfpenny of his trash in every payment, and many of you receive twenty, thirty, forty payments in one day, or else you can hardly find bread.
It goes sadly against the grain to pay fivepence for having one’s boots blacked, and the way in which your change is doled out to you is not pleasant, and adds materially to the difficulties of the situation.
And whereas, contrary to the letter and meaning of the said patent, the said Wood hath declared that every person shall be obliged to take fivepence halfpenny of his coin in every payment.
Mr. Wood will oblige me to take fivepence halfpenny of his brass in every payment!
I've only this one shilling and fivepence in copper, or I would pay for two or three gallons of beer," said I.
If I did not enlist and pass the doctor, only fivepence would stand between me and absolute starvation.
And though one day in early December I bought for fivepence in the market four pounds of well-flavoured yellow grapes, by the end of January the finest were a peseta (about ninepence) a kilo.
Then the bulk of the Monte Toro loomed vaguely ahead, and as our bow neared the accommodation ladder the elder boatman, abandoning his oar, began collecting his fees of fivepenceeach (dos reales) for piloting us over the bay.
He fingered the one and fivepence in his pocket; the sound of the rattling coppers fired his blood.
Leaving Willie to make the best of a bad case, and pick up his ill-used property, Bertie marched away with the one and fivepence in his pocket.
Still, I'd like another shilling or two; one andfivepence doesn't go far, stretch it how you will.
With great rapidity he dressed himself, only pausing for a moment to see that the one and fivepence was safe.
And do you mean to tell me that you're off to London with the sum of one shilling and fivepence in your pocket?
That one andfivepence was all the cash he could secure.
He thrust the hand which still held the one and fivepence into his trousers pocket, and turning on his heel marched with an air of great deliberation to the door.
When his capital had been represented by the sum of one and fivepence he had been dimly conscious that it would be necessary to be careful in his outlay.
Bertie perceived that if he put into execution his plan of immediate flight he would have to go as he was, with his one and fivepence and nothing else.
He left the shop with his hunger satisfied, feeling brighter and fresher altogether, and with fivepencein his pocket clutched tightly with his right hand.
I told him yes; that I had taken fivepence and two parcels of food, which were in my pockets.
No beggar could ever have done business quicker, for in less than a quarter of an hour, I was finished, having received fivepence halfpenny and two parcels of food.
He was of opinion that anything under fivepence a mile was too little, and that mail coaches which received less than that were decidedly underpaid.
The real rate was from fourpence to fivepence per mile inside, and from twopence to threepence outside for that distance.
Remember, the manor and tithes are rated at the clear annual value of seventy-nine pounds five shillings and fivepence halfpenny, besides the value of the wood.
In the last century, the most usual day-wages of common labour through the greater part of Scotland were sixpence in summer, andfivepence in winter.
More than a thousand pair of Shetland stockings are annually imported into Leith, of which the price is from fivepence to sevenpence a pair.
Before the late recoinage of the gold, the price of silver bullion was seldom higher than five shillings and sevenpence an ounce, which is but fivepence above the mint price.
Thousands of members are refusing to pay the fivepenceper fortnight, and great numbers of men have left the Association, so that we are not only losing the fivepence but their ordinary labour contributions.
Mrs. Morel paid him the fivepence in a cold manner.
You wouldn't let me have it for fivepence if you didn't want to.
I saw a spodizator, who very artificially got farts out of a dead ass, and sold 'em for fivepence an ell.
The hostess immediately took him home with her, and showed him the bed, and having praised it for all its good qualifications, said that she thought as times went she was not out of the way in asking fivepence for it.
They chiefly appreciated red wine, which was sold at fivepence and sixpence a quart, superior wine fetching eightpence a quart.
Nobody, according to the patent, was to be forced to take Wood's halfpence; nor could any one be obliged to receive more than fivepence halfpenny in any one payment.
Good cauliflowers command a ready sale at better prices than are to be had in London as a rule, the average cost being from twopence-halfpenny to fivepence per head.
It will be news, probably, for the British grower when he reads that the wholesale price of tomatoes in Egypt varies from one farthing tofivepence per pound.
Presently the conductor came up for her fare; she found she had fivepence in the world.
Four shillings andfivepence and a half-penny," said Comus, reflectively.
The four shillings and the fivepence and the half-penny represent the rearguard of the seven pounds," said Comus; "the rest have fallen by the way.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "fivepence" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
