Purdy had not cared a threepenny-bit one way or the other. ❋ Unknown (2003)
'What ha' ye dune wi 'the threepenny-bit ye stole this morning?' ❋ David Christie Murray (N/A)
My sitter happened to be a pretty society woman, possessed of about as much soul as would cover a threepenny-bit, and when I'd finished her portrait she simply turned and rent me. ❋ Margaret Pedler (N/A)
'The threepenny-bit your mother put on the clock-ledge, ye pelferin' vag'bond! 'said his father sternly. ❋ David Christie Murray (N/A)
But she, glancing through it twelve months hence, would be able to fill in many, though not all, of the details; how, on the way out from the station, Clem had told her about the new Gloucestershire job; how she and Vin had seen a heron; how the Bucklands had given them home-cured gammon with pickled peaches; and Bridget's fascinating story about her cousin, the threepenny-bit, and the deaf chimney-sweep. ❋ Unknown (1939)
R.J. Campbell on the Social Evil with such an air of condescension has paid me with a bad threepenny-bit. ❋ Rebecca West (1937)
But it wasn't – not a bit of it; not even a threepenny-bit. ❋ Edith (1923)
"My threepenny-bit," he roared, with one fist up -- ❋ James Stephens (1916)
"Who stole the last threepenny-bit of a poor man?" ❋ James Stephens (1916)
He followed with his eyes her long slender figure as she threaded her way in and out of the crowd, sinuously, confidingly, producing a penny from one lad's elbow, a threepenny-bit from between another's neck and collar, half a crown from another's hair, and always repeating in that flute-like voice of hers "Well, this is rather queer!" ❋ Max Beerbohm (1914)
` ` My own conception of enough learning, Baron, is a thing like a threepenny-bit -- the smallest coin one can do one's marketing with. '' ❋ Unknown (1905)
"There was sevenpence halfpenny in coppers and a threepenny-bit," said the Major carefully; "there was a cigarette-holder, a piece of string, and this letter," and he laid it on the table. ❋ Unknown (1905)
Best of all, and when the gown was finished, Nurse Branscome produced from her workbox a lucky threepenny-bit, and sewed it upon the breast to simulate a Beauchamp rose. ❋ Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch (1903)
He inspected Bobby all over with anxious scrutiny, and gave each of the bairns a threepenny-bit, but he had no blithe greeting for them. ❋ Eleanor Stackhouse Atkinson (1902)
In short the general consensus of opinion was that they were a very "fly" crowd at Mulligan's, and if you went there you wanted to "keep your eyes skinned" or they'd "have" you over a threepenny-bit. ❋ Unknown (1902)
There the Mudir glared at him and had him loaded with chains and flung into the prison, where two hundred convicts arrayed themselves against myriad tribes which, killed individually, made a spot on the wall no bigger than a threepenny-bit! ❋ Gilbert Parker (1897)
If you held out to him a penny in one hand and a threepenny-bit in the other, he would snatch at the threepence, and then break his heart because he could not get the penny in as well. ❋ Unknown (1893)
It came up, and it was very dusty -- and under it we found my threepenny-bit that I lost ages ago, which shows what Eliza is. ❋ Unknown (1891)
"Look at the threepenny bits on [that chick] - they're [popping out], man"
"I [shot my wad] all over her threepennys..." ❋ Real Cool Trader (2008)
Did you see that band [on the street] in [the rain] today [busking]? That be Threepenny Bit. ❋ Nichols31290 (2011)
"[I ate] bad food and got a [terrible] case of the [threepenny bits]" ❋ Callandanswer (2007)
