Firkin a twopenny-halfpenny present, accompanied it with so many compliments, that the twopence-half-penny was transmuted into gold in the heart of the grateful waiting-maid, who, besides, was looking forwards quite contentedly to some prodigious benefit which must happen to her on the day when Mrs. Bute came into her fortune. ❋ Unknown (2006)
He has twopenny-halfpenny French prints of women with languishing eyes, dressed in dominoes, — guitars, gondolas, and so forth, — and tells you stories about them. ❋ Unknown (2006)
She was causing a bit of a sensation, titillating the drinkers and deliberately embarrassing the man she appeared to be with, a bit of a sensation in his own right, I gathered, on account of his being a twopenny-halfpenny actor in a onepenny-halfpenny television soap. ❋ Howard Jacobson (2006)
Rosalba, who, mounting higher and higher, wraps herself about in sacking, and then, with a look of indifference and satiety as if she had renounced and suffered and dedicated herself to some insane act of defiance for no pleasure of her own, dives into the Channel and brings up a twopenny-halfpenny soup-plate between her teeth. ❋ Unknown (2004)
Some changes have been forced upon us; little things which they had forgotten — quite minor matters; and they now say that they will be obliged to divide against us on these twopenny-halfpenny, hair-splitting points. ❋ Unknown (2004)
How strange, that in a country like this, boasting of its education, and certainly with every facility for its prosecution -- how strange, that in the very Athens of the Republic, the deluded masses should exhibit as complete ignorance as you could find in the gallery of any twopenny-halfpenny metropolitan theatre of the old country! ❋ Henry A. Murray (N/A)
"Ah, take care, take care, Hadria; that is a mood in which one may mistake any twopenny-halfpenny little luminary for the impossible moon." ❋ Mona Caird (N/A)
They get round you and worry you, 'he declaimed, rising, and striding about the room, with an occasional double-handed clutch at the lapels of his coat, his one gesture of rage --' they worry you for their twopenny-halfpenny mouthful of lineage, and they'd gnaw their own mothers out of their coffins for the same reward. ' ❋ David Christie Murray (N/A)
To call that grand if barren promontory after a twopenny-halfpenny Dutch cockle-shell is a gross insult to the thousands of miles of sea between that point and any other land. ❋ Harry Furniss (N/A)
I mean, you won't let any twopenny-halfpenny little chorus-girl, or ... or girl out of a shop come in, will you? ❋ Kathlyn Rhodes (N/A)
If you love him enough to trust him with the whole of the rest of your life, you can surely trust him over a twopenny-halfpenny little secret which, after all, has nothing in the world to do with you. ❋ Margaret Pedler (N/A)
Don't let any twopenny-halfpenny considerations of worldly advantage influence you, nor the tittle-tattle of other folks, and even if it seems that something insurmountable lies between you and the fulfillment of love, go over it, or round it, or through it! ❋ Margaret Pedler (N/A)
Don't let any twopenny-halfpenny considerations of worldly advantage influence you, or the tittle-tattle of other folks, and even if it seems that something unsurmountable lies between you and the fulfillment of love, go over it, or round it, or through it! ❋ Margaret Pedler (N/A)
The smallest clerkships, twopenny-halfpenny postmasterships in unheard-of villages -- all, all that can be dispensed with, must make way for the friends of the incomers to power. ❋ Henry A. Murray (N/A)
"The tittle-tattle in these twopenny-halfpenny villages is almost past believing!" he exclaimed angrily. ❋ Margaret Pedler (N/A)
She obtained nothing there, however, which was of the smallest use to her, except a dozen twopenny-halfpenny stamps, which she put into her handbag before going northwards towards the main road. ❋ Mitchell, Gladys, 1901- (1948)
He's got some twopenny-halfpenny job in the medical at Alexandria -- sanitary officer or something like that. ❋ Unknown (1919)
On chance, for she was quite ignorant whether the postage should be prepaid, she put a twopenny-halfpenny stamp on the letter, and then, having done that, fastened down the big envelope and addressed it to Mrs. Gaunt, at 20, Arlington Street. ❋ Marie Belloc Lowndes (1907)
Then came the verdict, delivered from rolling clouds: 'If you were only a mass of blathering vanity, Dick, I wouldn't mind, -- I'd let you go to the deuce on your own mahl-stick; but when I consider what you are to me, and when I find that to vanity you add the twopenny-halfpenny pique of a twelve-year-old girl, then I bestir myself in your behalf. ❋ Rudyard Kipling (1900)
"Pay Griffiths's twopenny-halfpenny account to-morrow," I said, "and tell him that he has lost our patronage for ever." ❋ Barry Pain (1896)
