This was even smaller than her first choice, yet it was tenpence likewise.
Only then did it dawn on Evarne that this universal price of tenpence meant nothing more nor less than tenpence a pound, and thus the mystery was explained!
Perhaps it was tenpence a piece, regardless of size.
Alice bought a pair of cheaper shoes than she intended, paying tenpence instead of a shilling; purchased the two rabbits and the eggs; and found that she had one penny left.
When the labourer's wages were eightpence or tenpenceper day, in 1683, wheat averaged forty-five shillings per quarter.
He incidentally notices that a labourer received eightpence or tenpence per day.
Cheese at tenpence a pound,' says he, 'which I buy for my servants at sixpence.
Tis the tenpence a-pound flitch," said the comely dame examining the prize with a sparkling glance.
You had a large company coming, and to whom did you give a special order to catch you a turbot at tenpence a-pound?
It was high time for them to think, he said, after ever so much education, of earning from sevenpence to tenpence a-week, for the good of the babies they carried.
His wage varies from sixpence totenpence per day of ten hours in summer and eight hours in winter.
The fruit is ripe in November, and finds a ready sale at tenpence per pound; while, if the cultivation is good and well-managed, the return to the planter may be reckoned at forty pounds for the produce of an acre.
Tenpence a day and their food," said she looking at us tenderly.
I give them each tenpence a day and their food; but if that young fellow wanted he could earn much more, for he is the best workman in the country.
Beef istenpence to thirteenpence a pound, mutton about the same, bacon tenpence, pork tenpence, chickens four and twopence each.
We get 4 dollars 80 cents only for the sovereign here, being tenpence short of the five dollars.
If an article could be found that cost exactly tenpence (a favorite sum of hers), she was particularly pleased, and these shilling presents were received with a flush of pleasure and brightening eyes.
The limit on the amount of a single order was fixed at the low sum of $20 and the charge on each order was the rather high one of tenpence an order.
It amounts in all to six pounds fifteen shillings andtenpence per month of thirty days.
It was on the profit made on these that Mr Tubbs was able to make two ends meet at all, for one and tenpence a day is not much wherewith to satisfy the food capacity of a young and lusty lad with a healthy appetite.
As for our lodging the poorest of us live by tens in one room, and sleep by fours and fives upon one mattress; paying from twopence to tenpence a night.
When this is over, he descends to the lake, and after payingtenpence to the ferry-man, is rowed over to the Purgatory.
It's four and tenpence a word to Melbourne," observed Ted, prosaically.
Saint Teresa of Spain once said these memorable words: "Teresa and tenpenceare nothing: Teresa, tenpence and God are omnipotent.
Ye'll see boots in the window--she'll give them for tenpence a pound if ye're stiff with her!
A convulsive effort of mental arithmetic assured me that this was more than tenpence a pound, but it was not the moment for stiffness.
There was in it one pound eight shillings and tenpence halfpenny.
Industrious women who spin in the factories get some fourpence, some fivepence, and so on to tenpence per day, and find their own house-room and diet.
They must all go; for the future he would have to work nine hours a day for tenpence an hour, which is two pound a week, allowing for Saturday afternoon.
A common egg, one of our 'selected,' attenpence the dozen.
He refuses to take any help from me; he lives on work paid for at the rate of tenpence an hour.
For surely, if he had exchanged the old life and got nothing in return but work at a lathe all day at tenpence an hour, the change was a bad one.
Tenpence was then reckoned what is called the moderate and reasonable price of a bushel of wheat.
At Lerwick, the small capital of the Shetland islands, tenpence a-day, I have been assured, is a common price of common labour.
Three pounds seventeen shillings and tenpence halfpenny an ounce, therefore, is said to be the mint price of gold in England, or the quantity of gold coin which the mint gives in return for standard gold bullion.
Tenpence may be reckoned its price in Edinburgh and its neighbourhood.
Tenpence a-bushel, therefore, had, in the 25th of Edward III.
Had she not just sold the family's soup for eighteenpence, and made tenpence profit on it, and wouldn't her husband be pleasantly surprised when he saw there were three shillings more on the counter than usual?
Sixpence for a man and tenpence for a horse; ai, ai, what a barin I have found.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tenpence" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
