I thought I would go out and see if I could make a few pennies by playing music.
And the first thing he saw on the mantelpiece was a tin bank, and when he shook it something inside of it rattled, and when he peeped in Uncle Wiggily saw a whole lot of pennies in the tin bank.
Well, he was just putting the bank full ofpennies into his valise, when the pussy came back with the bottle of milk.
I have been saving up my pennies for a long time, and now you have them.
So I made up my mind I would save up all my pennies and some day buy an organ for myself.
Oh, I saved up mypennies for them," said the monkey.
He used to work on a hand organ, but when he got old he bought him a nest in the woods with the pennies he had saved up, and he lived in peace and quietness, and played a mouth organ on Sundays.
I used to work for a man who had a hand organ, and he used to take me around with him to climb up on the porches, and in the second-story windows to get the pennies from the children.
Well, I did that, for you know often when I used to go around to collectpennies for the man, some children would give me a few for myself.
Thirteen pennies are placed on the table in a group (not in a line) touching one another, but not superposed.
Three pennies and three halfpennies are placed on the table before the child.
His highest flights take in at most an unguarded clothes-line, or a little child sent to buy bread or beer with the pennies he clutches tightly as he skips along.
The hall is dark and you might stumble over the children pitching pennies back there.
He begged hard and handed Smith the pennies faithfully.
Take care of the pennies and the pounds will take care of themselves" (which needed a little translating to us) probably came down a long line of English copy books.
In spite of all my care, the pennies departed from my pockets like grains of sand from an hour-glass and most disheartening of all I was making no apparent gain toward fitting myself for employment in the west.
Pure and undefiled religion will do more when God has something besides pennies to work with.
The foundation of that fabulous fortune was laid by him when he poled a yawl from New York to Staten Island and picked up pennies for doing it.
Then an older brother told him he had paid the other boy altogether too much for it, and when Ben found that if he had waited and bought it at a store, he would have had some of the pennies left for something else, he burst out crying.
Ben thought that whistle was the nicest thing he had ever seen and offered his handful of penniesfor it.
One day when Benjamin was about seven, some one gave him all the pennies he could squeeze into one hand.
I left Leghorn with certain muleteers, with whom I played at cards at the baiting houses, and who speedily won from me all the ha'pennies and sixpences I had won from the sailors.
By four o'clock there was I sitting outside that confectioner's, wearing enough pennies to buy the shop out, and yet not a Bath bun to the good!
Well, in less time than it takes to cock your ears, that baby was shovelling pennies through the slit in my box and chuckling with joy.
I promise on the word of a true yeoman," quoth Robin, thinking that the fellow had a few pennies that he would save.
I think that six broad pennies will buy food enow for a dozen men," said the Tanner.
For Pierre had a sweet little voice, and he was to earn a few penniesby singing in the choir on Christmas morning.
I would as soon scramble for hot pennies in the snow, like the street boys, as scramble to see who can answer most questions.
Obedient to his request, she received the meal from the child who brought it, paying out the pennies and barring the door.
He drew from his pocket five pennies which he displayed for confirmation.
Here you have as many times tenpennies as there are weeks in the year.
Sebastian obediently pulled the boy after him; then he said: "Here are forty pennies from Miss Clara and forty more for playing.
All coin collectors are aware that there are many different reverses to the pennies of William I.
You are now giving yourpennies only for the Muscovite coffers.
You might save up your pennies and give your papa a pair like 'em for his next Christmas.
Why, the poor little cuss ought to be dreaming of Santa Claus in a nice warm bed somewhere, instead of picking pennies out of these arctic streets of ours, in order to keep body and soul together.
Made of tin, I suppose, with a nice little hole at the top to drop pennies into?
From millionaires who play the game for fortunes down to poor backwoodsmen who raffle for turkeys and hens, and children who tosspennies for marbles.
But no man drops pennies into the hat of a friend, let me tell you.
You don't call pitchin' pennies gambling, do you, Dick?
Paying their pennies down, they crowd into a hall, where a temporary stage has been erected, the scenes scrawled with charcoal as chance and want of sense will have it.
Then the pennies hopped and danced about in the most amusing manner.
I never dreamt," Sybil faltered; "I thought it was pennies here.
They inspired me only with a desire to get back to the beggars, where I could pay sou-pennies for the privilege of looking at the variegated humanity and of breathing the open air.
We flung her sou-pennies and she gathered them up like lightning and was after the rear carriages, unsatisfied and unabated in speed.
So after a while, finding no pennies forthcoming, he stopped suddenly, but did not move on, as his auditors expected him to.
I imagine it is the pennies of the poor that mainly fill its war chest.
These huts pitched within the shock of the German guns, are ramshackle and bare and few, for no organization can grow rich on the pennies and nickels that are tossed into the tambourines at the street-corners of the world.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pennies" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
