I gave a twopenny bakshish, and we passed on to the bridge.
Such was the difficulty of obtaining the forbidden books, in which he set the example of dealing, that twelve guineas were offered for twelve copies of the Age of Reason,(1) and L5 for five suppressed twopenny Tracts.
In this delightful, wholesome, ever-novel twopenny game, there is a danger of excess, as there is in every other pastime or occupation of life.
Suppose in the game of life--and it is but a twopenny game after all--you are equally eager of winning.
It was easier for him to think and say I lied, on a twopenny matter connected with my own affairs, than to imagine he was mistaken.
After dinner his illegitimate majesty and myself had a walk, and talked as well as my twopenny Samoan would admit.
At the best it was a twopenny affair, and never occupied my mind five minutes.
Mr. Snodgrass was affected, but he undertook the delivery of the note as readily as if he had been a Twopenny Postman.
Such was the gossip over the good twopenny in every ale-house within three or four miles of Ellangowan, that being about the diameter of the orbit in which our friend Godfrey Bertram, Esq.
One or two clowns sat at some distance, drinking theirtwopenny ale.
Dress is everything nowadays; put me in a top 'at and a tail-coat, with a twopennysmoke stuck in my mouth, and who would know the difference between me and a lord?
To that end in June, 1797, George the Third issued his warrant empowering Matthew Boulton, of the Soho Works, Birmingham, to manufacture a considerable quantity of penny and twopenny pieces.
Such was the gossip over the good twopenny in every alehouse within three or four miles of Ellangowan, that being about the diameter of the orbit in which our friend Godfrey Bertram, Esq.
I don't really care a twopenny damn if you starve or not.
Your only quarrel with me really is that I don't care a twopenny damn what you think about me.
Do you really care a twopenny damn if Blanche Stroeve is alive or dead?
It doesn't matter a twopenny damn to me one way or the other.
Financially the London penny and twopenny posts were always successful.
But newspapers by the General Post and delivered by the Twopenny Post, received by the Twopenny Post and afterwards passing by the General Post, have, since August 1836, been exempted from postage.
All these had different delivery areas, and in addition there was the "threepenny post town delivery," comprising the area lying between the limits of the General Post delivery and those of the town delivery of the twopenny post.
Henceforward the service was known as the "twopenny post.
The following statement shows the rates charged in the twopenny post:-- "For every letter transmitted by such Post within the limits of delivery for the time being of the General Post 2d.
Newspapers sent by the Twopenny Post, and not passing or intended to pass by the General Post, are charged each 1d.
I feel it so strongly--that it seems wasteful to stop to pick up the twopenny bits they're scrambling for.
He never thought of so much as a pennyworth of toffee for Ethel, or a silver thimble for his mother, or a twopenny cigar for Mr. Pilkings.
They would hold out the town itself as security, a twopenny rate, promises, accommodations, anything.
For think of it: here was no twopenny ride on a clanging tram through naked, unshaded streets before they could reach the sea.
I pretended not to hear this last; for though I might stand him in twopenny ale, I saw no reason for spoiling the tops of a bottle or two that I scorned to open, even when my rheumatics had leapt from my double half-ribs to my ear-drops.
Not even a twopenny glass of grog did I ever take out of our capital, nor a night of the week did I lie abed, when the lines required attendance.
Most of the chaps were smoking twopenny cigars, and had one or two drinks with each other to try to cheer themselves up before they started, but all the same it was a melancholy procession that wended its way up the hill to Windley.
Every week he bought some penny or twopenny pamphlets or some leaflets about Socialism, which he lent or gave to his mates; and in this way and by means of much talk he succeeded in converting a few to his party.
Twopenny rope~, a lodging-house of the lowest kind, where tramps and cadgers sleep on sacking stretched by means of ropes.
From an old song, called, "Walker, the twopenny postman.
How Abdallah's epistle to Ispahan found its way into the Twopenny Post-Bag is more than I can pretend to account for.
The only difference was that the shop-boys were now added to the crowd, every lad with a "twopenny smoke" between his lips; and that the throng was increased by those who were going home from church.
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.
But the general post limits did not coincide with the limits of the twopenny post: and the limits of both the twopenny post and the general post differed from those of the foreign post.
The Post Office replied that it was "not possible for country postmasters to know the precise line of demarcation between the general post and twopenny post deliveries.
Twenty years before, the office in Gerrard Street, the headquarters of the twopenny post in Westminster, had been enlarged.
I abdicate the twopenny crown, and invest you with the kingdom of Brentford; don't be a fool and cry; you make a much taller and handsomer viscount than ever I could.
When a foreign philosopher once called on him and asked to see his study, he instantly produced, in his strange way, a small tray, on which were some glass tubes and a twopenny blow-pipe.
One woman alone owned seven of these houses, which were crowded withtwopenny beds from cellar to garret.
Tin trumpets, twopenny tambourines, and concertinas are all very well in their way, but, try how I will, I cannot associate them with ghosts.
All sorts of extraordinary shadows have come to me in the Parks, the Twopenny Tube, and along the Thames Embankment.
