Though the pennyworth on his side be the worst, yet hold thee, there's some boot.
Sir, yourpennyworth is good, an your goose be fat.
Indeed, Nature herself has taken order that fame and honour should be purchased at a better pennyworth by satire than by any other productions of the brain, the world being soonest provoked to praise by lashes, as men are to love.
On the death of her husband, the widow retired with her four daughters to Thirsk, and she invited Peg Pennyworth to visit her.
It is the legal tender, with the knowledge that it can easily be repassed for the same value, that makes three-pennyworth of silver pass for sixpence.
The eighteen-pennyworth of little books purchased at Ennis in the morning came here most agreeably to my aid; and indeed they afford many a pleasant hour's reading.
But his magnificence grew as wearisome to him as his poverty had been before; and not one of the doctors whom he consulted could give him a pennyworth of consolation.
One pennyworth of these beads was colored green, another red, a third was colored like pearls, and the fourth was a miscellaneous packet of many colors.
Shred some Castile soap, which may be purchased by the pennyworth at the chemist's, and beat up in the usual way with water; you will find that much more can be done with this preparation than the usual household soap.
Purchase twopennyworth of purified chloride of lime, and dissolve it in a pint of water.
Not knowing the different prices, nor the names of the different sorts of bread, I told him to give me three pennyworth of any sort.
He also had a small gravy-tight tin case, and in that he brought with him every day four pennyworth of hot meat, generally bought at the corner of Angel Inn Yard, Clement's Inn.
The pudding at that shop was made of currants, and was rather a special pudding, but was dear, twopennyworth not being larger than a pennyworth of more ordinary pudding.
My own exclusive breakfast of a penny loaf and a pennyworth of milk, I provided myself.
He who buys by the pennyworth keeps his own house and other men’s too.
He has a pennyworth of cold boiled (unsalted) beef, a pennyworth of bread, a halfpennyworth of cheese and a pennyworth of currant jam.
Seven-pennyworth of gold size and a pennyworth of vegetable black, obtained from the nearest oil-shop, will give you enough paint for a dozen kaleidoscopes, and be useful for other purposes into the bargain.
There were no matches to light the fire; a half-loaf, a pennyworth of tea and a quarter hundred-weight of coal was all that remained in the room.
Once during the year he had bought a pennyworthof milk and at night he left it in a beer-bottle beside his bed.
You see, it's your forgiveness melts me, and if you forgive me like chucking a pennyworthof coppers at a beggar, I shan't be melted.
Here they receive a pennyworth for a penny and were satisfied.
You take sixpennyworth of flaked iodine and one pennyworth of 88 ammonia, together with a sheet of filter paper.
Just before the act was going on I threw a pennyworth of permanganate of potash into the water.
When her daughter visited her she treated her to an orange cut into slices and sprinkled with a pennyworth of sugar and a pennyworth of brandy.
After harvest six pennyworth of beer was divided among them, each received a loaf of bread, and every evening when work was over each reaper might carry away the largest sheaf of corn he could lift on his sickle.
And when the horse is old and worn out there is nothing but his skin, but when the ox is old with ten pennyworth of grass he shall be fit for the larder.
And the horse costs more than the ox, for he is obliged to have the sixth part of a bushel of oats every night, worth a halfpenny at least, and twelve pennyworth of grass in the summer.
That'll only take you one stamp, and you must go without a pennyworth of chocolates.
You little ones," she said, "may go and buy me a pennyworth of parsley and three lemons.
They were evidently more sought after than brandy-balls, of which he had no difficulty in securing a pennyworth at an early stage of his pilgrimage.
A little girl came in for a pennyworth of bicarbonate of soda, and Howell, returning from serving her, again showed his white, but false, teeth.
Howell still sells Mrs. Roberts her pennyworth of bicarbonate of soda, and with the same smile as ever, but he could do without her custom now.
Put it in a stone jar, with half a pint of white mustard seed, a little mace and cloves beat to a powder, as much cayenne as will lie on a shilling, a large head of garlic, and one pennyworth of turmeric in powder.
Let it stand three days, stirring it twice a day; then put it in your barrel, and put into it six-pennyworth of orris-root well bruised.
With two thousand cucumbers put into the pot about a pennyworth of Roman vitriol.
Dry six-pennyworth of saltpetre and two pounds of bay salt, and pound them fine; mix with it three large spoonfuls of brown sugar; rub your beef thoroughly with it.
Bruise a pennyworth of cochineal; put it into the vinegar, and pour it over the sprats with some bay-leaves.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pennyworth" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
