He has a pennyworth of cold boiled (unsalted) beef, a pennyworth of bread, a halfpennyworth of cheese and a pennyworth of currant jam.
They go to the gargottes, where they get threepence halfpennyworth of bouilli—soup, beef and vegetable—which includes the title to a liberal supply of bread.
I now give a halfpennyworth of bread to all this sack, an instance of the paradox of benevolence, in which an individual runs counter to all the ideas of his time, and sees his way into the next century.
But in my present undertaking it passes as the halfpennyworth of bread to many gallons of sack.
Madam,’ I reply to that imaginary questioner, ‘it would not make onehalfpennyworth of difference.
Whereas, as a matter of fact, there was not even that poor halfpennyworth of substratum for his hopes.
Can it be he has made up his mind to do without his halfpennyworth of milk for the dog?
In the morning he fetched a halfpennyworth and in the evening a pennyworth of milk, in a stout little brown jug; always the same brown jug; and always in the morning he wanted a halfpennyworth and in the evening a pennyworth.
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