Twelvepenny

Word TWELVEPENNY
Character 11
Hyphenation twelve pen ny
Pronunciations N/A

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Swift writes -- "Bombast and buffoonery, by nature lofty and light, soar highest of all in the theatre, and would be lost in the roof, if the prudent architect had not contrived for them a fourth place called the twelvepenny gallery and there planted a suitable colony." ❋ Alfred Guy Kingan L'Estrange (1873)

It is plaguy twelvepenny weather this last week, and has cost me ten shillings in coach and chair hire. ❋ Unknown (2003)

I have been very idle this afternoon, playing at twelvepenny picquet with Lewis: I won seven shillings, which is the only money I won this year: I have not played above four times, and I think always at Windsor. ❋ Unknown (2003)

I am ruined with coaches and chairs this twelvepenny weather. ❋ Unknown (2003)

I may safely say, that the most of men who are concerned in a trade, will be more vigilant in dealing with a twelvepenny customer, than they will be with Christ when he comes to make unto them by the gospel a tender of the incomparable grace of God. ❋ Jeremiah Rev. Chaplin (N/A)

In other words, from threepenny to tenpenny 1/4 "is added for each penny, but a twelvepenny nail is 3-1/4" long, a sixteenpenny nail is 3-1/2 "long, a twentypenny nail is 4" long. ❋ William Noyes (N/A)

“I know you can find dinners, but you love twelvepenny coaches too well, without considering that the interest of a whole thousand pounds brings you but half-a-crown a day.” ❋ Melville, Lewis (1921)

"I know you can find dinners, but you love twelvepenny coaches too well, without considering that the interest of a whole thousand pounds brings you but half-a-crown a day." ❋ Lewis Melville (1903)

They are now printing the fourth edition, which is reckoned very extraordinary, considering 'tis a dear twelvepenny book, and not bought up in numbers by the party to give away, as the Whigs do, but purely upon its own strength. ❋ Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745 (1901)

Why then, twelvepenny weather; sirrahs, why don't you play at shuttlecock? ❋ Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745 (1901)

I have been very idle this afternoon, playing at twelvepenny picquet with Lewis: ❋ Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745 (1901)

There is an intimacy between us, built upon reasons that you shall know when I see you; but the rain caught me within twelvepenny length of home. ❋ Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745 (1901)

For several years, he mentions, he had gone no higher than the twelvepenny, and then the eighteenpenny places. ❋ Dutton Cook (1856)

And the "Gull's Horn Book," 1609, counsels, "At a new play you take up the twelvepenny room next the stage, because the lords and you may seem to be hail-fellow well met!" ❋ Dutton Cook (1856)

All assessments have, however, for a very long period, been levied and all privileges apportioned, according to merks, without relation to whether they were sixpenny or twelvepenny. ❋ Various (1852)

Merk lands are of different values, as sixpenny, ninepenny, twelvepenny, -- a twelvepenny merk having, formerly at least, been considered equal to two sixpenny merks; and in some old deeds lands are described as thirty merks sixpenny, otherwise fifteen merks twelvepenny land. ❋ Various (1852)

These wasps, I suppose, will be very angry at the just contempt Mr. Gray had for them, and will, as insects do, attempt to sting, in hopes that their twelvepenny readers will suck a little venom from the momentary tumour they raise -- but good night-and once more, thank you for the prints. ❋ Horace Walpole (1757)

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