It is true that had I packed all my belongings in one huge box the same company would have conveyed them to the steamer for one and eightpence, which is the regular charge per package. ❋ William Archer (1890)
When such rooms can be rented for from three to six shillings per week, it is a fair conclusion that a lodger with references should obtain floor space for, say, from eightpence to a shilling. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Eight shillings for a bed and eightpence for a glass of sherry pointed to one of the most expensive hotels. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Mr Arthur Clennam, enclosing the sum of twenty – four pounds nine shillings and eightpence, being the amount of principal and interest computed at the rate of five per cent. per annum, in which their client believed himself to be indebted to Mr Clennam. ❋ Unknown (2007)
There was two or three chairs, that might have been worth, in their best days, from eightpence to a shilling a – piece; a small deal table, an old corner cupboard with nothing in it, and one of those bedsteads which turn up half way, and leave the bottom legs sticking out for you to knock your head against, or hang your hat upon; no bed, no bedding. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Or why should people be allowed to ride quickly for eightpence a mile, after Parliament had come to the solemn decision that they should pay a shilling a mile for riding slowly? ❋ Unknown (2007)
Guster replied that “he insistes on one and eightpence or on summonsizzing the party.” ❋ Unknown (2007)
Francis, my third (nine), one and sixpence halfpenny; Felix, my fourth (seven), eightpence to the ❋ Unknown (2007)
Five shillings in the pound, six and – eightpence, ten shillings? ❋ Unknown (2007)
In the event of your contemplating an offer of eightpence, on no account make the tender, or show the money, until you are safely on the pavement. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Dounce eat half – a – dozen more of those at eightpence. ❋ Unknown (2007)
So, he bestowed a searching look upon the fare, as he put his hand in his waistcoat pocket, when he had gone half the mile, to get the money ready; and if he brought forth eightpence, out he went. ❋ Unknown (2007)
But I leave it all to your honour; and the whole grazing he ought to be charging for the beast is but two and eightpence halfpenny, anyhow, please your honour. ❋ Unknown (2006)
“I made a settlement on her: with all my worldly goods I did her endow three thousand three hundred and thirty-three pounds six and eightpence, which my father sent over from India to my uncle, years ago, when I came home.” ❋ Unknown (2006)
An old lady in a poke-bonnet came out of the parlor, and put on her spectacles, and looked at the letter, and fumbled in her pocket for eightpence, and apologized to the postman for keeping him waiting. ❋ Unknown (2006)
I pull out the twenty-four shillings and eightpence with a trembling hand. ❋ Unknown (2006)
It was no other than this — Jim, who was always of a generous disposition, and when in his cups especially hospitable, had in the course of the night treated the Tutbury champion and the Rottingdean man, and their friends, twice or thrice to the refreshment of gin-and-water — so that no less than eighteen glasses of that fluid at eightpence per glass were charged in Mr. James ❋ Unknown (2006)
Among the farmers one pound nine and eightpence had been collected. ❋ Unknown (2005)
October 22nd, 2006 at 11: 20 am eightpence » Scrybe - obnoxiously high fidelity - Phil Crosby ❋ Michael Arrington (2005)
“For total loss of reputation, six and eightpence.” ❋ Unknown (2004)
