As a vagrant in the "Hobo" of a California jail, I have been served better food and drink than the London workman receives in his coffee-houses; while as an American labourer I have eaten a breakfast for twelvepence such as the British labourer would not dream of eating. ❋ Unknown (2010)
He counted the cost; when he was done with Mr Moss he would be left with twelvepence – halfpenny in the world. ❋ Unknown (2004)
Terrible rain to-day, but it cleared up at night enough to save my twelvepence coming home. ❋ Unknown (2003)
I have fires like lightning; they cost me twelvepence a week, beside small coal. ❋ Unknown (2003)
I write this while Patrick is folding up my scarf, and doing up the fire (for I keep a fire, it costs me twelvepence a week); and so be quiet till ❋ Unknown (2003)
Come, come, young women, I keep a good fire; it costs me twelvepence a week, and I fear something more; vex me, and I will have one in my bed-chamber too. ❋ Unknown (2003)
Everything is going up, but most of us are still getting the wage we were hired at, which is a twelvepence a week. ❋ FOLLETT, Ken (1989)
Sergeant McGivern had seen it happen and reported the man, and so on top of his marital troubles Thomas Cresacre would now lose fivepence from a day's pay of twelvepence. ❋ Cornwell, Bernard (1981)
In 1452, a scholar of Haburdaysh Hall is imprisoned for using threatening language to a tailor, and is fined twelvepence and imprisoned; the tailor insults the prisoner and is fined six shillings and eightpence. ❋ Robert S. Rait (N/A)
They treated him both with meat and drink, seemed to commiserate his condition very much, and promised him that he should not want twelvepence a day, during the time in confinement. ❋ Arthur L. Hayward (N/A)
If the value of such goods be under twelvepence, then it is called petty larceny, and is punishable only by whipping or other corporal punishments; but if they exceed that value, then it is grand larceny, and is punishable with death, where benefit of clergy is not allowed. ❋ Arthur L. Hayward (N/A)
In the language of the county from which I write, "a dozen of bread" was (and I believe is yet) used to express either one loaf, value twelvepence or two loaves, value sixpence each: and even when the sizes and price of the loaves varied, it was used to express the larger loaf, or the two smaller loaves. ❋ Various (N/A)
The penalty is only twelvepence for an ox or a cow, and eightpence for any smaller animal. ❋ Various (N/A)
Stratford-on-Avon, in the county of Warwick, was fined twelvepence for failing to remove a heap of filth from before his door. ❋ William Allan Nielson (N/A)
In Richard the Second's time, Newcastle coals were sold at Whitby, at three shillings and four-pence per chaldron; and in the time of Henry VIII. their price was twelvepence a chaldron in Newcastle; in London about four shillings, and in France they sold for thirteen nobles per chaldron. ❋ Various (N/A)
As a vagrant in the ` Hobo 'of a California jail, I have been served better food and drink than the London workman receives in his coffee-houses; while as an American laborer I have eaten a breakfast for twelvepence such as the British laborer would not dream of eating. ❋ Unknown (1903)
I write this while Patrick is folding up my scarf, and doing up the fire (for I keep a fire, it costs me twelvepence a week); and so be quiet till I am gone to bed, and then sit down by me a little, and we will talk a few words more. ❋ Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745 (1901)
