I could bit a tenpenny nail right in two without feeling it a morsel; but it was no use quarrelling.
At first I was mad enough to bite a tenpenny nail in tu without chawing; then I began to feel dreadful wamblecropped, and eenamost boo-hooed out a crying.
I don't call it just the thing to drive a tenpenny nail square through a lead pipe, pull it out, and say nothing about it.
According to your notion, a man couldn't do better than to stick the ground full of tenpenny nails to start with, and I should think a thousand-legged worm would be about the most substantial animal that treads the globe.
Receive the sincere thanks of yours truly, together with these fish-hooks, these tenpenny nails, this key-ring.
Defn: Valued or sold at ten pence; as, a tenpenny cake.
One of the crew, however, who was ingenious at expedients, and determined to see fair play, by means of a hammer and a tenpenny nail fastened both parties firmly to the chest by the seats of their canvas trousers.
But he couldn't keep his eyes off the half a ton of copper or the bushel of tenpenny nails; for nails and copper are a shipwright's sweethearts, and shipwrights will run away with them whenever they can.
And hanging over one of his arms by the handle was an iron pot, and under that arm was a bushel of tenpenny nails, and under his other arm was half a ton of copper, and sitting on one of his shoulders was a rat that could speak.
If not, what a lot of valuable tenpenny foolscap wasted all for nothing!
It also must have needed extensive repairs, since Mercer purchased 1500 tenpenny nails "used about it.
From John Blane, during the same year, he purchased 2500 tenpenny nails and the same quantity of eightpenny nails.
Aren’t you glad I made you promise to send a picture to it in those tenpenny times?
All the same, I couldn't help feeling that half a million francs were worth a tenpenny wire.
His answer will show whether that tenpennywire was worth half a million francs.
After my prison fare, and with nothing but tenpenny London dinners to recollect in the immediate past, I trust I shall not be thought a gross materialist for appreciating these small banquets, and in such company.
And after such healthy fatigue and fragrant impressions the tenpenny dinner had a better taste, the little front parlor in Pentonville was more like a home, the book more like a friend.
But Boots stuck out his tenpenny nail, and she cut at it.
Tenpenny Nail was to gain the day in spite of fortune.
The tenpenny stamp, of an octagonal shape and brown colour, is now scarcely ever used, if it be not even withdrawn from circulation.
Harry spoke of the Friday's race, and the defection of the horse Tenpenny Nail.
She kept waving her hand; but I would not be persuaded into pushing myself before a married woman, and at last she got in, biting her lips as if she had a tenpenny nail between her teeth.
In fact, I had a worrying night, and got up feeling as if I had been feasting on tenpenny nails and roasted flat-irons.
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