And the people who sell them must make a great deal of money by them because they are nearly always two-and-ninepence the bottle, and three-and-six for one nearly double the size.
Only took one and ninepenceat the door one night, did we?
Didn't you only take one and ninepence at the door one night?
Two remarks stick in my memory:--that on one occasion there had only been one and ninepence taken at the door; and that at the close of a recent week there had been less than two pounds to divide among seven people.
Ninepence sterling was fixed as the value of an Irish shilling; some of the old money, particularly that of the lower denominations, seems to have been put in circulation, but it was used merely as counters and was not complained of.
An Irish shilling was henceforth worth no more thanninepence in England.
It soon became impossible even to spend an odd ninepence on boot repairs.
They agreed on a minimum wage of sixpence an hour for labourers and ninepence for artisans, with a maximum working week of fifty-four hours.
A sympathetic half-crown a week to a worn-out old woman making shirts at ninepence the dozen has the effect of dragging the struggling young widow with a family of children down to accepting the same price.
Hark with what a lordly voice he calls the waiting-boy, whose benevolent master, for services rendered, rewards him with ninepence per week, and the gratuitous licking of all the crockery soiled on the premises.
Formerly, according to the old maxim, ninepence was but ninepence; but even twopence has now become a sum sterling, to demand which is to stir men's blood as violently as if the said coins were flung in their faces.
At ninepence a week; but the brute is at me for ever, and says it is twelve weeks.
The sum had been ninepence halfpenny, a handsome residue of the fifteen shillings, which under her own scheme of finance, she had drawn from our revenue for the week’s consumption.
I was very much concerned for his misfortunes, and felt that any recognition short of ninepencewould be mere brutality and hardness of heart.
I should rob my family," he said, "if I was to offer ninepence for it.
Commission to the extent of two and ninepencein a fortnight cannot, however limited our ideas, be considered remunerative.
My circumstances being so very pressing, however, I said I would takeninepence for it, if he pleased.
Beyond a general impression of the distance before me, and of the young man with the donkey-cart having used me cruelly, I think I had no very urgent sense of my difficulties when I once again set off with my ninepence in my pocket.
Please to pay me ninepence first," said the old woman.
And I owe you ninepence for that last pair of flatfish you sold me!
Once past the Rame we should be right as ninepence and might run down the coast on a soldier's wind: it would stiffen a bit out yonder unless he was mistaken.
Miss Rebecca Engleheart presented the society with a small pasteboard windmill, in the hopper of which were three shillings and ninepence halfpenny, which she had collected by the exhibition of her little toy.
Fourteen hundred and seventy-two pounds, thirteen shillings, and ninepence halfpenny.
They are employed four days in the week, and they are paid ninepence a day, as at the other two rooms in the town.
With the help of his wife he could make one in a day, and he gotninepence profit out of it--when the box was sold.
Why, I can plough, and I can zow, And zometimes to the market go With Gaffer Johnson's straw or hay, And yarn my ninepence every day!
Ninepence a-day will never do, For I must have silks and satins too!
Silver on the new tenor notes was rated at six shillings and ninepence sterling, gold at five pounds an ounce, and thus the value of a new tenor bill was four times that of an old tenor bill.
Mabel's aunt prided herself on her tasteful touch in the home, and had studied the arrangement of flowers in a series of articles in Home Drivel called "How to Make Home High-class on Ninepence a Week.
We supply the machine, charged with the very best soup, at ninepence a night.
It never came near us that night, and Ted was a bit disappointed next morning as he took 'is ninepence and went off.
I didn't say anything about the watch and chain, because there was no need to, and when we came outside agin I 'ad engaged an assistant-watchman for ninepence a night.
Three shillings and ninepence is the par value of the Spanish dollar, but they were sold by the purser of the Peacock at four shillings; and doubloons, at sixteen dollars, or three pounds four shillings.
It was affecting in its puffery of the beefsteak pudding that ninepence purchased in Cape Town; and poignantly prolix in its conception of how Horatius held the bridge of Modder River some five-and-twenty years ago (sic).
Miniature "Murphies" fetched four pence halfpenny each, while an adult member of the genus at ninepence was worth two of the little ones.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ninepence" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
