Though the pennies do not come so easily as of old, the dreams have not yet faded, the magical lights have not yet been quite extinguished; the solid pennyworths still fail to satisfy me, who have been on the very frontiers of El Dorado.
They are accustomed to be sent shopping into High Street, where household stores are bought in pennyworths or twopennyworths, owing to uncertain finance and no storage accommodation.
The kind of problem presented to the poor town child will deal with shopping inpennyworths or ounces, with getting coals in pound bagfuls.
Into two pennyworths of oil of vitriol, mix two pennyworths of the best indigo in powder; let it stand a day or two; when wanted shake it well, and into a quart of boiling water put one tablespoonful of the liquid.
Into the shop I went and asked for two pennyworths of German sausage.
You had only twopence, so you purchased two pennyworthsof German sausage--for seven.
What--my thoughts flying back to what the governess had said--was two pennyworths of German sausage among seven?
Was I attempting to quiet my conscience by pretending that it would be enough to present them with two pennyworths of German sausage?
Discovering that for a half-penny he got six marbles, but for a penny fourteen, he bought pennyworths and sold them in half-pennyworths to his companions, thus realising a profit.
For them no automatic gas meter grudgingly doles out its niggardly pennyworths of gas.
Elaine and Comus were indulging themselves in two pennyworths of Park chair, drawn aside just a little from the serried rows of sitters who were set out like bedded plants over an acre or so of turf.
A provision dealer used to throw away outside scraps; but now respectable customers of twenty years' standing bought them in pennyworths to moisten their potatoes.
The baker was more and more surprised at the number of people who bought half-pennyworths of bread.
Then come, ye lasses, and eke ye dames, Come, buy your meat from me, For three pennyworths of meat I sell For the charge of one penny.
God's my life, We shall have all our gains drunk out in beakers, To make amends for pennyworths of lawn!
Now come, ye lasses, and eke ye dames, And buy your meat from me; For three pennyworthsof meat I sell For the charge of one penny.
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