Also, to-day we have another fourpenny loaf to each mess, which makes eight pennyworth of bread to each mess, per day, besides our allowance by government.
To-day we received a fourpenny white loaf per mess, which came last night; so that from this time we may bid it adieu.
To-day we received another fourpenny loaf per mess; the occasion of it I cannot tell.
This is Christmas, and a sorrowful one it is, though we had sent us, by our friends without, a fourpenny white loaf per mess, and a little cabbage.
To-day we received a fourpenny loaf according to our request.
They have passed to oblivion and Nox; They have fled to the shadowy shore-- They are all in the Fourpenny Box!
No more Shall the shepherds drive silvery flocks, Nor the ladies their languors deplore-- They are all in the Fourpenny Box!
There is a street in the East End which, owing to the character of its fourpenny lodging-houses, has become notorious.
The officer took me into the fourpenny sitting room, which was pleasant and beautifully clean, but had no fire lit.
As to the "fourpenny doss," its discomforts are probably mainly owing to its inmates.
Just before the engine whistled, Falconer said to Hugh: "Give me that fourpenny piece, you brave old fellow!
Hugh handed him the letter with one hand; and when he had read it, held out the fourpenny piece in the other hand, to be read likewise.
British fourpenny bright orange, Edward issue--has fifteen holes per 2 centimetres along the top and bottom edges, and fourteen holes along either side.
Continent, and it was this process which was employed for the printing of the newfourpenny value.
Gibbons catalogues the blue penny at L85, and the vermilion fourpenny at L95.
He has one for every-day use made with fourpenny pieces.
They have been and are not: no more Shall the shepherds drive silvery flocks, Nor the ladies their languors deplore, - They are all in the Fourpenny Box!
They have passed to Oblivion and Nox, They have fled to the shadowy shore, - They are all in the Fourpenny Box!
Now the fourpenny public, a shy and modest section of the community, largely clerical (in the lay sense of the word) looked up and was fed.
They have been and are not: no more Shall the shepherds drive silvery flocks, Nor the ladies their long words deplore,-- They are all in the Fourpenny Box!
They have passed to Oblivion and Nox They have fled to the shadowy shore,-- They are all in the Fourpenny Box!
Mr. Hill's measure was what was required, and the fourpenny rate was in no respect his plan, nor did it even touch the question of the practicability of the uniform postage proposed by the reformer.
He had taken me aside one day and promised me a silver fourpenny on the first of every month if I would only keep my "weather eye open for a seafaring man with one leg," and let him know the moment he appeared.
Never a month but I've given you a silverfourpenny for yourself.
And altogether I paid pretty dear for my monthly fourpenny piece, in the shape of these abominable fancies.
Once, after receiving a silver fourpenny piece, an extraordinary and undreamed of event, Tony dropped it, almost with a feeling of guilt, through the slit in the counter which communicated with the till.
He dreamed of the fourpenny piece, and the gentleman who had given it, and of Dolly, who bought a wondrous broom with it, in his dream, which swept a beautiful crossing of itself.
They had decided that they must only spend two or three shillings more; but two or three shillings was untold wealth in a fourpenny halfpenny shop.
I wouldn't have thought if we'd bought pounds' worth of fourpenny halfpenny things, it could have come to that!
He had taken me aside one day, and promised me a silver fourpenny on the first of every month if I would only keep my "weather-eye open for a seafaring man with one leg," and let him know the moment he appeared.
But the French and English writers give various recipes for cleaning old books, which the amateur may try on any old rubbish out of the fourpenny box of a bookstall, till he finds that he can trust his own manipulations.
The decay of affection, the breaking of friendship, the decline of ambition, are all illustrated in these fourpenny collections.
Rare books grow rarer every day, and often 'tis only Hope that remains at the bottom of the fourpenny boxes.
He wore a long brown great coat, buttoned up to his chin, and this was the only article of wearing apparel visible upon him: in his hands he twirled a shining new four-and-fourpenny hat.
In fact, this innocent journalist made himself ill-looking enough for a fourpenny lodging-house, and I would not have been surprised if he had been refused a bed at the house to which he went.
Leaving him I went in quest of a fourpenny lodging-house in the East End, and soon found one.
He asked forty men for a copper towards paying for a fourpenny bed, and the result was twopence threefarthings--and the workhouse.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "fourpenny" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: crown; dollar; farthing; groat; guinea; mite; monkey; pence; penny; plum; pony; pound; quid; shilling; tuppence
