Women gather from twenty to twenty-five pounds daily, and obtain from twopence to threepence for two and a half pounds.
This was mostly exported to China, and amounted to a tax of about threepence per head on every Chinaman; it was also sufficient to defray about one-sixteenth part of the expenses of our Indian Empire.
He started another club at the Essex Head, whose members were to meet twice a week, with the modest fine of threepence for non-attendance.
On the road there I sold three pairs of laces to men going home from work, and also had threepence given me by a gentleman taking a walk, which was unsolicited.
Hundreds of Nonconformist Sunday School children were taken at threepence a head, and the return fare for ordinary passengers was one shilling.
In some parishes a voluntary rate of threepence in the pound was paid to assist the relief fund.
The drivers of the cars, phaetons, and flys are likewise unpaid, except by their passengers, and claim threepence a mile with the same sense of right as their masters in charging for the vehicles and horses.
Thus, if the article taken out of the packet does not exceed half an ounce in weight, the charge of threepence will be levied on delivery, while the remainder of the packet, if prepaid, will be delivered free at the same time.
Soon after the passing of the Penny-postage Act, the commission on money-orders was reduced to threepence instead of sixpence, and sixpence for any amount above two pounds and under five pounds.
Having accomplished that, Spud intimated to many hopeless aspirants for first-class shot that he could pull them through, and thus secure them the threepence a day which is the reward for musketry efficiency.
Tea and coffee, threepence a cup; lemonade, fourpence; fruit salad, sixpence a plate!
I'll take visitors out in the punt at threepence a head.
During the advent year of penny postage, the commission on Post Office orders was reduced to threepence and sixpence for sums not exceeding two pounds and not exceeding five pounds respectively.
Now, each man back his card, threepence all round, and the watch goes to the highest card.
Having further invested threepencein cheese, he made his way up to the market.
Two and threepenceapiece railway fare, that's four and sixpence, and five bob we are to send down for the boat, nine shillings and sixpence.
Well, in a week, when theirs was gone, and they had but their threepence a week to look to for the rest of the half-year, what did I do?
Then there was the threepence I was to have THE NEXT Saturday.
Why, I am proud to say that three-halfpence out of the threepence a week of almost all the young gentlemen at Dr.
The best of it was, it only cost me threepence originally, which a chap could not pay me.
Good strong beer also may be had of the brewer, for about twopence a quart, and of the alehouses that retail it for threepence a quart.
These rooms,' said she, meaning the two upon the ground floor, 'are for those who can afford to pay threepence for their bed and who have supper to cook.
An offer of threepence is still not unknown in the provinces, as we have intimated above in our notice of an episode in Lincolnshire--not the Spalding one, but a second about the same point of time.
Could make threepence a yard, which was better pay a good deal than the Antrim weavers of fine linen make.
She had for sale some pillow lace edging of her own manufacture, which she offered at threepence per yard.
By this post a single letter was carried eighty miles for twopence; beyond eighty miles threepence was charged, and there was an advance according to the weight of packets.
Now, while twopence or threepencemay appear to us a very insignificant sum, such will not be the opinion of a very poor person.
By this labor he earns, every day, threepence for the state, and a halfpenny for himself!
And so away goes lusty Tom, With threepence on his back, A heavy burthen, which might make His wearied limbs to crack.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "threepence" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
