When Charlotte came here I had but sixpence left in my purse, and Mrs. Dundyke has bought me shoes and things that I have wanted since, from her own pocket.
I then asked whether she had left no message, and the girl replied that she had left none, but had merely given directions about the kettle and fire, putting, at the same time, sixpence into her hand.
But he would not borrow till absolutely compelled, and sixpence would keep him alive another day.
Once or twice she contrived accidentally that the sixpence should be in coppers.
You can be a Hand, if you like, atsixpence an hour.
London looked exactly like the maps you buy for sixpence from sad-looking gentlemen in the Strand, only it was sown with a thin crop of lights, and was chiefly designed in grey and darker grey, and the Tubes did not show so indecently.
Fie upon me, I had spent three and sixpence for nothing.
She takes three and sixpence out of her little humble store; and she advertises herself in a newspaper.
Of course you know old Broad found the sixpence on him.
Dick, who, by the way, never bet sixpence or any other sum of money in his life.
I shouldn't like to be caught with a marked sixpence in my pocket!
Well," said his master, "are you going to confess that you took this sixpence from the till?
And I say, Curly, you'd better give me the sixpence in the street.
I got three and ninepence altogether, and out of that Curly gave Hartland sixpence that he owed him.
That night she tied in the palm-leaf strand again, and she put the sixpence in her Geography-book, and she kept it so safely all her life that her great-grandchildren have seen it.
He was privately resolving to give that sixpencein change to the old Squire and see what he would say.
She curtesied deeply and returned to her seat, the silver sixpence dangling from her agitated little hand.
I spent the Squire's sixpence for those peppermints," she whispered.
Somehow she stammered out the story: how she had been afraid to go to Nancy Gookin's, and how she had lost the sixpence her uncle had given her, and how Martha had said she told a fib.
When he returned the next term he had but a sixpence in his pocket, and this he put into the contribution box at church the next day.
Many a sixpence and shilling used I to receive for showing bewildered wanderers round and round, how to escape from the trap I myself had set for them.
But, anyway, it was a good drawing title, and I was coining money easy all day at sixpence a time for admission.
Three-and-sixpence is the amount it's entered in the books for.
We have to sing the song of sixpence for the last time in these pages; and as it is an old song now, there will be no encores.
The ancient Song of Sixpence applies to Bijah, but his pocket was generally full of proxies instead of rye, and the Honorable Heth was frequently one of the four and twenty blackbirds.
I said that I would, and sticking the sixpence inside my glove and the form into my pocket, I thought no more about it, and drove straight away to Benny's.
Here's a chap coming who looks as though he could lay out sixpence if he hadn't got a shilling; we'll enlist him and then talk about supper afterwards.
He would not be called on to pay seven-and-sixpence a year for her; but on the other hand she was so big, larger than himself in fact, and he was afraid she would want a lot of food.
He may keep it still at a face-royal, for a barber shall never earn sixpence out of it; and yet he'll be crowing as if he had writ man ever since his father was a bachelor.
My gracious sovereign pays me seven and sixpence a day; for which sum I undertake to be shot at on certain occasions and by proper persons, and I hope when the time comes I shall take it as well as another.
Tis four year and better since she and I broke a sixpence auver't.
Come, now, you said, not two minutes ago, that you two had broken a sixpenceover it.
It is a great tax to pay four shillings and sixpence as a minimum for going a mile in any country place where flies and cabs have not been planted.
The custom of sending children to work from the time they can earn sixpence a-week, renders education impossible.
He paid only three-and-sixpence a week for the privilege of living there; his food cost him about a shilling a day; on clothing and other unavoidable expenses he laid out some five pounds yearly.
Let her understand what it meant to live on twelve and sixpence a week.
He pays me sixpencefor an hour's lesson; that brings me two shillings a week.
His excessive meagreness would all but have qualified him to enter an exhibition in the capacity of living skeleton, and the garments which hung upon this framework would perhaps have sold for three-and-sixpence at an old-clothes dealer's.
One might find three unfurnished rooms for about eight-and-sixpence a week--less than half our rent here.
Go and live upon your twelve-and-sixpence a week, and on your memories of the past.
How could an overcoat at twelve andsixpence be 'good.
They occupied the front page of the Signal, and from that pulpit they announced that winter was approaching, and that they meant to sell ten thousand overcoats at their new shop in Bursley at the price of twelve and sixpence each.
He offered Cyril sixpence for every sheet of signatures which the boy would obtain.
Unfortunate Theodore, who, on leaving the prison without a sixpencein his pocket, took refuge with a tailor in Soho, where three days later he died.
It kept grandfather out of mischief, and made him part with at least a proportion of the deleterious rubbish he bought with his weekly sixpence of pocket-money.
And have people paying sixpence a head to come in and see me dwindling?
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sixpence" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
