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Example sentences for "honest penny"

  • Well,' said I, 'and could he not make a honest penny, and yet give me the price I ask?

  • It's my horse,' said I; 'are you the person who wishes to make a honest penny by it?

  • If you would take a hundred, I think my lord would purchase it, for he has sent me about the fair to look him up a horse, by which he could hope to make a honest penny.

  • Well,' said I, 'and could he not make an honest penny, and yet give me the price I ask?

  • If you would take a hundred, I think my lord would purchase it, for he has sent me about the fair to look him up a horse, by which he could hope to make an honest penny.

  • He left my employ to seek fortune and turn an honest penny elsewhere, and I gave him a 'character' which a student of theology might ertvy.

  • The main object of brigandage is a financial one; the robbers are in want of money (many of us are in the same fix), and the best way for them to turn an honest penny is to steal it.

  • They took things easily, and had a good time, and whenever there was a chance to make an honest penny by a little robbery, they were up to the scratch.

  • I'm a respectable Yankee peddler, trying to turn an honest penny by selling knickknacks to the fair sect.

  • Is that how you try to turn an honest penny, Susan Sharpe?

  • It's my horse," said I; "are you the person who wishes to make an honest penny by it?

  • Well," said I, "and could he not make an honest penny, and yet give me the price I ask?


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    among animals; coming again; dear auntie; each board; honest face; honest fellow; honest friend; honest industry; honest money; honest penny; honest people; honest thought; honest woman; honest work; long away; malignant fever; mental attitude; moderate breeze; must meet; official residence; physical exercise; sate down; second attempt; sin and; thick layer; totally dissolved