Ein Pfennig mit Recht ist besser denn tausend mit Unrecht=--A penny by right is better than a thousand by wrong.
Prince Otto of Saxe-Pfennig lay sleeping in his tent at Tottenham.
What the Encore would like to know:--Whether Prince Otto of Saxe-Pfennig didn't go particularly big at the Lobelia last week?
Prince Otto of Saxe-Pfennig went to bed that night, comfortably conscious of a good work well done.
Prince Otto of Saxe-Pfennig set himself resolutely to grapple with the problem.
In five minutes the managing director had agreed to pay Prince Otto of Saxe-Pfennig five hundred pounds a week, if he could be prevailed upon to appear.
A twenty-pfennig stamp is placed on this second envelope to take the letter out of the country.
For a long time they have had iron 5- and 10-pfennig pieces, and now they have 1-pfennig pieces made out of aluminum.
In Leipsic and Dresden they have 50-pfennig pieces made out of paper, and Berlin will soon have them too.
You--you never were, and in all human probability never will be--Grand Duke of Pfennig Anything!
It is confidently predicted that my appearance as King Agamemnon, in a Louis Quatorze wig, will mark an epoch in the theatrical annals of Pfennig Halbpfennig.
Market-place of Speisesaal, in the Grand Duchy of Pfennig Halbpfennig.
Why, instead of playing Troilus of Troy for a month, I shall play Grand Duke of Pfennig Halbpfennig for a lifetime!
Elected by my fellow-conspirators to be Grand Duke of Pfennig Halbpfennig as soon as the contemptible little occupant of the historical throne is deposed--here is promotion indeed!
Though quite contemptible, as every one agrees, We must dissemble if we want our bread and cheese, So hail him in a chorus, with enthusiasm big, The good Grand Duke ofPfennig Halbpfennig!
The good Grand Duke of Pfennig Halbpfennig, Though, in his own opinion, very very big, In point of fact he's nothing but a miserable prig Is the good Grand Duke of Pfennig Halbpfennig!
But all the laws of Pfennig Halbpfennig run for a hundred years, when they die a natural death, unless, in the meantime, they have been revived for another century.
It's a very good part in Gerolstein, and oughtn't to be a bad one in Pfennig Halbpfennig.
He had spoken the truth when he said that he was without money; every pfennig he possessed, had been in his pocket the night before.
And the day came, only too soon, when the positive help Maurice could give her was at an end; she did not owe a pfennig to anyone; her letters and accounts were filed and in order.
An hour before Kohn went into a police station and asked for ten five-pfennig stamps and a ten pfennig postal card.
Behind the room was a chamber with an old mangle, which was rented to other people at two pfennigper hour.
Three little candles were meant to go with these angles, at five or six pfennig per piece; but when those eighteen pfennig were needed for other, more necessary things, they just had to live with that.
On some occasions, she earned more than 25 pfennig per day.
We will pay tenpfennig per line, which would be the same price you are likely to have received from other newspapers.
I made clear to him that I would not give a single pfennig and that I was firmly resolved to sue.
Perhaps I could do it for just forty pfennig; even thirty pfennig would be a generous salary.
If we worked properly, saved properly, starved properly, and I would not waste a single pfennig at the seminary in vain, we would only need another five to ten taler per year.
Whenever he went to an inn, his regular limit was one glass of simple beer at seven pfennig and one glass caraway-liquor or a double juniper-liquor at six pfennig; I was allowed to sip of this, too.
It was a long time before the last fifty-pfennig piece was played out of the pool; but Heppner triumphed.
You have, too, Johanna, and I would wager my last pfennigthat you have a good deal of attention paid to you.
But that does not justify you in keeping this thirty-pfennig glass from the Joseph Glass Works.
In one end of the car was a band playing the vilest music for the few sechser (five-pfennig pieces) occasionally thrown down to them.
The tramps loaf around in the neighborhood of the churches and stossen (tackle) the poor Catholics as they pass in and out, usually getting a pfennig at least.
Sanders gave her a ten-pfennig piece, and asked her who had taught her the poem.
A ten-pfennig piece buys a noble white radish, and the seller slices it free of charge, slices it with a silver revolving blade into two score thin schnitzels, and puts salt between each adjacent pair.
But he was a wanderer like myself, and I had a twenty-pfennig piece that I could just barely spare.
The talk with Ibsen, our unheard of abstemiousness in restaurants, and the pains that we were at to see everything on a five pfennig tipping basis, were the only special features of the trip.
I had not a pfennig to spend and nothing of any value to sell.
But how was a Polish Jew in the most wretched circumstances, without a pfennig to buy food, and without knowing the language of the country, to make a journey even of a few miles?
We are in the habit of carrying our small change loose in a trousers pocket, but the German almost without exception carries even his ten and fivepfennig pieces carefully in a purse.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pfennig" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
