I asked Papi why they are called tenpenny, eightpenny, an' sixpenny darters, an' he said it was 'cause they looked like nails an' that nails used to be sold by the pennyweight. ❋ Hugh Barlow (2011)
His lordship is meekly going to dine at an eightpenny ordinary, his giants in pawn, his men in armor dwindled to “one poor knight,” his carriage to be sold, his stalwart aldermen vanished, his sheriffs, alas! and alas! in gaol! ❋ Unknown (2006)
In the eightpenny dormitories the beds are comfortable, but there are so many of them (as a rule at least forty to a room), and so close together, that it is impossible to get a quiet night. ❋ Unknown (2004)
Finally she slapped on the table two ‘large teas’ and four slices of bread and dripping — that is, eightpenny-worth of food. ❋ Unknown (2004)
It was when you told me to put the eightpenny scuttle in Miss ❋ Margaret Pedler (N/A)
Finally she slapped on the table two large teas and four slices of bread and drippingthat is, eightpenny-worth of food. ❋ Unknown (1933)
An eight-shilling meal stands out, among eightpenny teas, as a rare extravagance .... ❋ Dornford Yates (1922)
"This, I presume," he remarked, "is not where you serve the eightpenny table d'hote?" ❋ Unknown (1906)
Even on ordinary days those low-ceiled dining-rooms, stretching far back from the street in a complicated vista of interiors, were apt to be crowded; for the quality of the eightpenny dinner could be relied upon. ❋ Arnold Bennett (1899)
My dinner consists in rotation of one third of a pound of bacon, cooked over the gas (twopence halfpenny), or two saveloys (twopence), or two pieces of fried fish (twopence), or a quarter of an eightpenny tin of Chicago beef (twopence). ❋ Unknown (1894)
My dinner consists in rotation of one third of a pound of bacon, cooked over the gas (twopence halfpenny), or two saveloys (twopence), or two pieces of fried fish (twopence), or a quarter of an eightpenny tin of Chicago beef ❋ Arthur Conan Doyle (1894)
Something or a Sir Somebody; he knows the noble landlord at heart gives the bard, or whatever he is, a share of his good wishes, beyond, perhaps, any one at the table; yet how will it mortify him to see a fellow whose abilities would scarcely have made an eightpenny tailor, and whose heart is not worth three farthings, meet with attention, and notice that are withheld from the son of genius and poverty! ❋ John Campbell Shairp (1852)
"Go get a claw hammer and three pounds of eightpenny nails." ❋ Unknown (1847)
If the ghost of his grandfather, Sir, was to rise before him this minute, he'd ask him for the loan of his acceptance on an eightpenny stamp. ' ❋ Charles Dickens (1841)
His lordship is meekly going to dine at an eightpenny ordinary, his giants in pawn, his men in armor dwindled to "one poor knight," his carriage to be sold, his stalwart aldermen vanished, his sheriffs, alas! and alas! in gaol! ❋ William Makepeace Thackeray (1837)
If the ghost of his grandfather, Sir, was to rise before him this minute, he’d ask him for the loan of his acceptance on an eightpenny stamp.’ ❋ Unknown (2007)
For the eightpenny dinners were the scorn of the neighbourhood, and strangers were rare in the wine shop of Emil Sachs. " ❋ Unknown (1906)
"Do you go down to Leslie's and tell him to send me a good claw hammer and three pounds of eightpenny nails. ❋ Unknown (1847)
