He whispered, in a mysterious tone, that he had just come from a sixpenny eating-house, where he had witnessed the final disappearance of his mortal remains through the jaws of a confiding drayman who had asked for a mutton pie.
Hence the inundation of two-and-sixpenny pettifoggers, the abundant crop of innocent-looking juvenile M.
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They both coughed arter that, and like a goodnatured fool I stood 'em a sixpenny cigar apiece, and I 'ad just turned to go back to my seat when up come two more hands from the Lizzie and Annie.
It's been the dream o' my life to smoke a sixpenny cigar.
Just go in for another one of their sixpenny cigars.
A box of paints, threepence: a sixpenny tea service, a threepenny drawing slate, and a rag doll, sixpence.
He showed her all the sixpenny ones, but she did not like any of them, so after a while Nimrod suggested that perhaps she would like a paper of a little better quality, and she could pay the trifling difference out of her own pocket.
Misery sent her several patterns of sixpenny papers, marked at a shilling, to choose from, but she did not fancy any of them, and said that she would come to the shop to make her selection.
Well, I taunted the doctor myself with inconsistency, but we do not propose to make a sixpenny dole of the fund.
Electricity springs the deadly mine on the field of battle, and animates a sixpenny toy sold in the Lowther Arcade.
I quote it verbatim: 'Miss Corelli would have been better advised had she embodied her ridiculous ideas in a sixpenny pamphlet.
The Chairman then put the penny rate to the meeting, and afterwards the sixpenny rate; when, on a show of hands, a majority appeared to be decidedly in favour of the penny rate.
Stanley remarked that they (the opponents of thesixpenny rate) "were like sheep driven to the slaughter.
The stuff was retailed in sixpenny packets, and you were advised to eat only a very little of it at a time, and not to masticate, but merely to permit melting.
He dared not buy a proper horse and dog-cart because he dared not bring such an equipage to the front door of his mother's four-and-sixpenny cottage.
After some desultory conversation in low tones, during which Macgregor writhed with frequently averted gaze, the young man chose a sixpenny one and put down a florin, regretfully remarking that he had to catch a confounded train.
A yard ofsixpenny calico, or of strong unbleached muslin, will make two small dusters or one large one.
I hided the sixpenny my own self," said Carrots, looking more and more puzzled.
Only all this time the little yellow sixpenny lay safely hidden away in Carrots' paint-box.
I said I hided the sixpenny my own self, but I never touched nurse's sovereigns; I never did.
One of the bitterest pangs of remorse I ever felt was when a child--when my kind old aunt had strained her pocketstrings to bestow a sixpenny whole plum-cake upon me.
Mitford was hoaxing you surely about my Engraving, 'tis a littlesixpenny thing, too like by half, in which the draughtsman has done his best to avoid flattery.
Mr. James Payn recently received L1,000 for the rights of running one of his novels in the pages of a sixpenny magazine.
I wir baan to set it o' th' stooan again, when I seed at a new sixpenny bit hed bin put theer wi' it, so it struck mi as milk wir wantit.
But the hearty applause from the sixpenny places made ample amends.
Towards eight o'clock (the hour at which the lecture was to begin), the sixpenny audience was still pouring in.
Mrs. Sowler answered loud enough to be heard above the hum of talking in the sixpenny places.
Surely they wouldn't come to thesixpenny places," he said.
Loud cries from the sixpenny benches answered No; the ostler and the fiery-faced woman being the most vociferous of all.
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Then he saw the Pink Roses flowering alone in the sixpenny seats.
So he rose to go out and walked instead to the sixpenny seats.
Then they would play a rubber of sixpenny auction just to make them sleepy and, playing till three or four, would so succeed in their ambition that they could not breakfast till eleven.
After feeding-time they would lie torpid in a heavenly frowst reading Wisden's Annual orsixpenny magazines.
He gave her thesixpenny loaf toasted, and a bottle of ale to drink.
I have a bran-new seven and sixpenny book," she answered hurriedly, passing it to him.
The Works of Mr. Thomas Hardy, including the poems, have also been added to the Three-and-Sixpenny Library.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sixpenny" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
