They entered the little theatre, and the Cobbler with them; but the last retired modestly to the threepenny row.
Ho, ho," said Mr. Rugge, in hissing accents which had often thrilled the threepenny gallery with anticipative horror.
He saw nothing again of the policeman, nor of the crowd, nor of the lady who had lost her purse with its thirty-seven pounds, fifteen shillings, and a threepenny bit.
I am extremely fond--and ran out to procure threepenny worth.
When that was made illegal, a numbered teetotum was used, and now childhood is beguiled with the promise of a threepenny piece, or other prize, to be found in packets of sweets.
Bradbury and Evans, the proprietors of those threepenny prints, shook in their shoes at the idea of an action, they already having enough law business on their hands in consequence of their treatment of Messrs.
The dormitories, both of the fivepenny class on the ground floor and of the threepenny class upstairs, are kept scrupulously sweet and clean, and attached to them are lavatories and baths.
The threepenny charge entitles the tenant to the use of a bunk bedstead with sheets and an American cloth cover.
We had sent us a threepenny loaf to each mess, and three hundred herring, to be divided amongst us.
Finally, the shutters went up on a day's takings of three and sevenpence farthing, including a most dubious threepenny bit.
This was an excellent sum for long whist at threepenny points, but would hardly defray the cost of an elopement.
The threepennypost began where the twopenny post ended.
The same result is apparent in the case of what, for distinction's sake, we will still call the London penny post, although the London penny post had become a twopenny and threepenny one.
A little later, the threepenny post was extended to a radius of twelve miles.
Besides, she knew that if she had, as seemed most probable, left a threepenny piece on the cellar floor, it was all owing to that annoying fit of nervousness that had suddenly come over her in the dark.
Thomas Chadwick might have flung the threepenny bit into the road.
Well, here's two threepenny bits--one for each of them.
She hunted for her little purse and gravely took out a threepenny bit.
If any evil were to befal, let him bear the burden and let Maisie go unscathed, since the threepenny piece was dearest to him of all his possessions.
In his own room Dick was settling a question with himself--and the question was whether all the world, and all that was therein, and a burning desire to exploit both, was worth one threepenny piece thrown into the Thames.
Twopenny and threepenny advances succeeded, and although these have long ceased in London, they yet survive in the provinces, where the lots are less important.
There were nine half-pennies, three pennies, a threepenny bit and a sixpence.
He says every Monday morning his father gives him a threepenny bit and his mother's always giving him pennies.
The gardens were curtailed of their fair proportions, and this once famous resort sank down to a threepenny concert-room.
Threepenny skelp iron" is made from an inferior quality of scrap to that from which "charcoal iron" is made; but unlike it, there is no pretension of quality.
The appearance is beautiful, and equally as fine to the eye as stub-barrels browned in the same way; though this process is mostly used for the charcoal iron and the threepenny iron barrels.
The generous lady, having searched several pockets before finding the necessary coin, bestowed on him a threepenny piece for his trouble!
Stock made no answer, but put a couple of threepenny loaves into his hand to carry home, and told him to call on him again at such a time in the following week.
Your kindness in dressing the wound yourself, will, I doubt not, perform the cure at the expense of that threepenny loaf and a little hog's lard.
In one hand she carried a leghorn hat with red and blue ribbon, and in the other a silken bag filled with a threepenny bit and two biscuits, and her age was nineteen.
Indeed I have," said Burke, "and a threepennyblotter too.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "threepenny" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
