The Squire took the sixpences to the blacksmith who stamped them with B's, and then, with his own hands, he adjusted the palm-leaf.
The men who attend these pavement chalkings, and receive halfpence and sixpences from the admirers of street art, are not always the draughtsmen.
In the days when the term was most in use sixpenceswere not kept in the excellent state of preservation peculiar to the currency of the present day.
The arrival of the page in sixpences put him out of countenance for a moment, especially when the page began to feed the hall-fire in a manner contrary to all James's lifelong notions of feeding fires.
Perhaps he would not have plumped himself straight into the drawing-room had not the manikin clad in sixpences assumed that the drawing-room was his Mecca and thrown open the doors.
He--he was unfortunate, and died three years ago, and I was left alone in the world, with hardly two sixpences to rub together.
Don't they have anysixpences or thimbles in the t'ifle?
As to the rest, we can have the windows mended; and do you keep all the sixpences you earn for yourself.
People do not subscribe shillings and sixpences and half-crowns to feed a hungry flood with Christmas pudding.
He said: "How pleased all those kind ladies and gentlemen would be if they knew we were the poor children they gave the shillings and sixpences and things for!
Great part of the shillings and sixpences now current are, by wearing, become five, ten, twenty, and some of the sixpences even fifty per cent.
More than once he was caught hugging to his breast the little brass kettle, under the lid of which he slipped the crown-pieces and down the spout the sixpences of usury; and then one night Arthur Monjoy took him over the moor.
What more can the beggars ask for their sixpences than real drugs and dignity?
He performed his subsequent ablutions in silence, but, having completed them and deposited three sixpences upon the consulting-room table, he again spoke.
Tom Lord’s flag was the well known telegraph that brought him in from three to four thousand sixpences at a match.
This threat obliged me to be more on my guard, though I occasionally contrived to get a game at night, and to win sixpences and ha'pennies.
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.
See, sir; you said you gave me sixpence, and Mr. Williams says there are twenty sixpences in this little bit of money.
I only wish we could do like the poor madman grandmama mentioned, who planted sixpences in the ground that they might grow into shillings.
I mean to begin a collection of crooked sixpences immediately; therefore, pray never spend another, but give me as many as you can spare; and the more crooked the better.
But there was a deal of professional character in the blackened and gilt lettered front windows, and the sixpences came by hundreds.
Don't you think the town's people would if you gave them the sixpences all for themselves?
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.
This address never fails to produce a considerable sensation, and sixpences flow into the treasury with wonderful rapidity.
At last the Monkey had dropt two hundred sixpences into the pond.
So he put his four hundred silver sixpences in a bag, and set out.
He sat down by the pond to eat his breakfast, laying his bag of sixpences by his side; and after breakfast, he proceeded to wash his hands in the pond.
He coined sixpencesfor Ireland worth only fourpence in England.
Money was scarce, and in 1652 the General Court passed a law for the coinage of sixpences and shillings.
Servants and small clerks, to whom shillings and sixpences are of consequence.
Who are the people who lose shillings and sixpences by sheer thoughtlessness?
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sixpences" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
