I will fill my pockets with change for a sovereign in halfpence and drown myself in the Thames; but I will not be angry with her, even then, for I will put a note in the twopenny-post as I go along, to tell her where the body is.
What they get is little indeed: a few halfpence turned out of one pocket and another when the clean starched frocks are thrown off at night, make up a daily income just enough to keep body and soul together.
It would be a monstrous thing to refuse such a poor fellow because of his blunt inapt way of asking; and so the halfpence come showering down.
Scores would be turned away from the doors, and their halfpence wasted, were it not for the worthy proprietor’s ingenuity.
It was considered low by the big boys to employ halfpence on such occasions.
Then he put a die on the table, and covering it with his cap, sent the halfpence back to take its place.
The cap I will place on the table, and taking the halfpence in my left hand, as you see, I will pass them from under the table into the cap.
One little girl, who observed that the old man could not stoop without great difficulty, stayed behind the rest of her companions, and collected the halfpence which they had thrown to him, and put them into his hat.
People give him their halfpence more readily than to any other musicians who infest the boat.
Sheriffs of London to pay to the keeper of the King's leopard sixpence the day for the sustenance of the leopard, and three halfpence a day for diet of the said keeper.
Notwithstanding in my youth I have seen them pass current, but with some difficulty, for that the English halfpence were then, though not so broad, somewhat thicker and stronger.
Come, then, Ben, if you've any halfpence in your pocket.
I told you then that I could not afford to buy such things for you; but now that you can earn halfpence for yourselves, children, it is fair should taste a ripe plum and bit of gingerbread for once and a way in your lives.
Contrary to his cousin's surmise, he happened to have two pennyworth of halfpence actually in his pocket.
Your having halfpence in your pocket is an excellent reason for eating," said Mr. Gresham, smiling.
I must buy some of those good things, for I have got some halfpence in my pocket.
Many carriages went by this day, and Paul and Anne received a great many halfpence from the travellers.
Come close to the chaise-door," said the little girl; "here are some halfpencefor you.
At last he began to pay me in halfpence at a time; and was full two hours getting by easy stages to a shilling.
What would they say, who made so light of money, if they could know how I had scraped my halfpence together, for the purchase of my daily saveloy and beer, or my slices of pudding?
But my standing possessed of only three-halfpence in the world (and I am sure I wonder how they came to be left in my pocket on a Saturday night!
The rate for newspapers stamped with the impressed stamp is one penny for two sheets, three-halfpence for three sheets, and twopence for four sheets, of printed matter.
He is a gentleman, and never has vulgar halfpence within reach.
Boys are running home with the breakfast herring held in a piece of paper, and the side-pocket of an apple man's stuff coat hangs down with the weight of halfpence stored within it.
Jamie was the widow's sole support; his strong arm worked for her untiringly, and as each Saturday night came round, he poured his wages into her lap, thanking her dutifully for the halfpence which she returned him for tobacco.
He knocked at one door after another asking for a night's lodging, while he jingled the halfpence in his pocket, but was everywhere refused.
Now, the merchant was usually a most honest man, but he did not quite like to describe Wali Dad in his true light as an old man whose income was five halfpence a day, and who had hardly clothes to cover him.
He only earned by this fivehalfpence a day; but he was a simple old man, and needed so little out of it, that he saved up one halfpenny daily, and spent the rest upon such food and clothing as he required.
Some halfpencebeing placed on the cork, the players aim in turns with a coin.
Also beggar who picks up halfpence in courts thrown to him from windows.
There are two dozen halfpence in my purse and two hens in my wallet, which I have caught on the road; we will cook them, if you like?
And that if Wood were now withstood, To his eternal scandal, That twenty of these halfpence should Not buy a farthing candle.
But now the noble clothiers Of honour and renown, If they take Wood's halfpence They will be all cast down.
My dear Irish folks, Come leave off your jokes, And buy up my halfpence so fine; So fair and so bright They'll give you delight; Observe how they glisten and shine!
That he and his halfpence should come to weigh down Our subjects so loyal and true to the crown: But I hope, after all, that they will be his own.
The brewers met within their hall, And spoke in lofty strains, These halfpence shall not pass at all, They want so many grains.
Here's halfpence in plenty, For one you'll have twenty, Though thousands are not worth a pudden.
For this work Samuel was to receive three halfpence a week.
He was then about sixteen years of age, and had so little knowledge of reading that he gladly paid the three halfpence per week which his mother allowed him as pocket-money to one of the young Bowdens for instruction.
The fee was a penny a week, and on its being raised to three halfpence the boy was removed, for the father's poor pittance would not allow of the extra strain upon it of a halfpenny per week.
The prices are remarkably moderate in most of these places; the charge is no more than three-halfpence for half a pint of coffee, or threepence for a whole pint.
He becomes immediately entitled to all the loose halfpence in his mother's reticule, and sixpence a-week will be at once payable out of his father's estates at Saxe Gotha.
We may add that since planing machines in various forms have become common in mechanical workshops, the cost of planing does not amount to more than three-halfpence the square foot.
Our cuffs and collars were of paper: sixpence-halfpenny the dozen, three-halfpence the pair.
I joined the ranks of the penny-a-liners--to be literally exact, three halfpence a liners.
I lent three halfpence to Geoff to make up his sixpence for the hospital-cot collection at the children's service last Sunday.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "halfpence" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
