On one side was the familiar wreath with the word "fivepence" in the midst, with its Esperanto equivalent beneath, and on the other the profile of a man, with an inscription. ❋ Robert Hugh Benson (1892)
On my return I paid fivepence for a "cabin," took my receipt for the same in the form of a huge brass check, and went upstairs to the smoking-room. ❋ Unknown (2010)
But we were allowed only to "sub" fivepence of the total sum, though the tally-keeper, short of change, gave us sixpence. ❋ Unknown (2010)
For fivepence a head, we have on these occasions donkey races with English ‘Jokeis,’ and other rustic sports; lotteries for toys; roundabouts, dancing on the grass to the music of an admirable band, fire-balloons and fireworks. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Omnibuses convey you, if you please, from a convenient part of the town to the beach and back again; you have a clean and comfortable bathing-machine, dress, linen, and all appliances; and the charge for the whole is half-a-franc, or fivepence. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Do you know that the sheet of advertisements alone, at fivepence a line, brought in five hundred francs last month? ❋ Unknown (2007)
Mrs. Catherine Weston of Ferryland Plaintiff on the 17th August last made Complaint upon Oath before Our Justices of our Court of Common pleas that William McDaniel of Ferryland planter is justly Indebted to her in the sum of One hundred and nine pounds four shillings and fivepence sterling being for the Amount of a Book-debt, and that he refuses payment thereof although thereunto frequently required. ❋ Unknown (2005)
Bossuet, as a sort of purchased slave, at the rate of fivepence a line. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Harfleur both by sea and land for five weeks; at the end of which time the town surrendered, and the inhabitants were allowed to depart with only fivepence each, and a part of their clothes. ❋ Unknown (2007)
I bought him years and years ago, price fivepence, in a little parchment-covered Cologne-printed volume, at ❋ Unknown (2006)
Paddy and I had fivepence left, and we spent it at the ‘bar’, where food was cheap, though not so cheap as in some common lodging-houses. ❋ Unknown (2004)
That would shock her; he filled it with shag tobacco — fivepence halfpenny an ounce. ❋ Unknown (2004)
He did not feel this — that he loved humanity, that he paid only fivepence an ounce for tobacco and loved nature — naturally and quietly. ❋ Unknown (2004)
In the above list, if you allow a shilling for tobacco and deduct this and the other non-food items, you are left with sixteen and fivepence halfpenny. ❋ Unknown (2004)
Remember, the manor and tithes are rated at the clear annual value of seventy-nine pounds five shillings and fivepence halfpenny, besides the value of the wood. ❋ Unknown (2004)
“Seventy-nine pounds, five shillings and fivepence half-penny, besides the value of the wood,” said Foster; “and I am to have it all as copyhold?” ❋ Unknown (2004)
Paddy thought it wiser to bury our fivepence, for the Tramp ❋ Unknown (2004)
They paid us sixpence each, and we bought a threepenny loaf and half an ounce of tobacco, leaving fivepence. ❋ Unknown (2004)
I would demand less than any one else for my work; sixpence was ample, or perhaps fivepence. ❋ Unknown (2003)
