Half Farthing

Chatou, I have but one God, one King, one half-farthing, and one boot. ❋ Unknown (2008)

In 1570 the "payer of balowes" were sold, and in 1583 the pipes, "wayeng eleven score and thirteen pounds, went for fourpence half-farthing the pound." ❋ Frederick W. Woodhouse (N/A)

The mids, with the exception of three, were fine-looking lads from the ages of fifteen to eighteen, fond of fun and mischief and of their half-pint of rum; were frequently at watch and watch, mast-headed, pooped, and confined to their half-farthing candle-lighted mess-holes. ❋ Frederick Hoffman (N/A)

If he build it into his house he commits no trespass till he lives in the house long enough to gain the value of a half-farthing. ❋ Epiphanius Wilson (1880)

If he take away a consecrated half-farthing he commits no trespass. ❋ Epiphanius Wilson (1880)

There is, it is well known, the old paradox of the geometric series; you may add a farthing to a halfpenny, and then a half-farthing, and then a quarter-farthing, and then the eighth of a farthing, followed by the sixteenth, and thirty-second, and so on, halving the contribution each time. ❋ Unknown (1876)

I sometimes bestowed a half-farthing, always expressed great gratitude. ❋ Unknown (1867)

For the critics, Lamb said in the same letter, he did not care the "five hundred thousandth part of a half-farthing;" and we can believe him. ❋ Charles Lamb (1804)

Just as the florins is of much higher denomination and value than the half-farthing, so also should it be understood that faith is much higher and more efficacious than works. ❋ Philipp Melanchthon (1528)

It does not follow that because a half-farthing does not help, therefore a florin also does not help. ❋ Philipp Melanchthon (1528)

{liard = half-farthing, the tiniest of coins} "Mademoiselle will have the goodness to give me ten francs," said ❋ James Fenimore Cooper (1820)