She produced the little halfpenny tract, which to this day is sold at the gallows-foot upon the death of every offender.
But I had joys mixed with my fears; for, when I retired to a quiet corner, and counted again and again my increasing store, what a pleasure I felt in adding a halfpenny to it, and carefully wrapping up the paper!
Still I steadily held on unflinching, adding halfpennyto halfpenny, my mind a prey to a new fear, that of losing my treasure.
Gathering all his things together, in case mother fines him a halfpenny for each of them,’ laughed Isobel.
Certainly not,’ said his mother; ‘and if those are the notions that you are learning at St Chad’s we will have to put on the halfpenny fine in the holidays to counteract them.
Isobel, trying to see how long she could hop on one foot without losing her balance; ‘she always fines us a halfpenny for everything that we leave about.
A bunch in Scilly is a dozen blooms; and therefore those fortunate few took twopence-halfpenny apiece for narcissi.
An experienced reporter once told the present writer that he could distinguish, by internal evidence alone, the authorship of almost every paragraph in the detestable halfpenny newspaper to which he then contributed.
The leader-pages of the halfpenny dailies make a feature nearly every day of one or more signed articles.
Here there are also your gamesters in action; some turning off a whimsey, others throwing for pewter, who can quickly dissolve a round shilling into a three-halfpenny saucer.
There still remains the pump under which Sam had his "halfpenny shower-bath.
Mr Cophagus supplied me with good clothes, but never gave me any pocket-money, and Timothy and I often lamented that we had not even a halfpenny to spend.
A large proportion of halfpenny packets cannot, on account of their size and shape, be passed through the machine-stamp, and the figure for the machine-stamp must be considerably reduced for these packets.
Halfpenny packets which are of such size as to admit of handling with the short letters are referred to as "short halfpenny packets.
The paper remained unchanged, and some of its subscribers seem to have resented the doubling of the tax upon them, by charging readers an extra penny for each halfpenny with which it had been taxed.
Every single half sheet pays a halfpenny to the Queen.
His last political act as a commoner was to impose the halfpenny stamp upon newspapers and sheets like those of the 'Spectator.
A halfpenny was expected from every one to whom these were exhibited, and bad luck was thought to menace the household not visited by the doll-bearers before Christmas Eve at the latest.
Jona and I were racing to Halfpenny Hole, and I'd got her absolutely beaten.
He said he was going back to Halfpenny Hole directly, in order to save the coroner's officer the trouble of fetching him.
But after fourteen years or so he was making twopence halfpenny per annum at his profession.
His scheme succeeded; for great was the sale of these hymns and ballads at a halfpenny a piece in the streets of Glamerton.
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.
Why, then, if I'm any judge, this little porter isn't twopence halfpenny better than he should be.
There are halfpenny buns, aren't there, and scones, and damson jam, and the old thick cups and saucers?
The schoolroom, yes; but you don't suppose I'd feed my prodigal on halfpenny buns!
Suppose I owe to this man ten thousand talents, and another should pay him every farthing, there remaineth over and above by that complete satisfaction not one single halfpenny for me.
It fixed the value of the Irish twelvepence to be ninepence English; so that the Irish sixpence was to pass current for fourpence-halfpenny in England.
The wine commonly drank at Boulogne comes from Auxerre, is very small and meagre, and may be had from five to eight sols a bottle; that is, from two-pence halfpenny to fourpence.
Butcher's meat is sold for five sols, or two-pence halfpenny a pound, and the pound here consists of eighteen ounces.
And Bunting, with his daughter's large straw hold-all in his hand, ran forward into the roadway and recklessly gave a boy a penny for a halfpenny paper.
Her husband had alluded to the fact again and again when reading out to her little bits from the halfpenny evening paper he was taking again.
This has been, and still is, the great object of all those heaps of lies; and those lies are continually spread about amongst us in all forms of publication, from heavy folios down to halfpenny tracts.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "halfpenny" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
