A trivial sum, informally

Usage examples of twopence.

And the three-and-six he got for the shift had to go for the rent, not even twopence for baccy, let alone a pint.

She is a good, honest girl, and she saved your life, daroga, at a moment when I would not have given twopence for your Persian skin.

The public funds were fourpence three farthing a day for each pauper out of which Jem Hocking managed to purloin twopence, while the rest was grudgingly spent on stale bread, onions, barley and oatmeal.

Twopence a pint, fourpence a quart, eightpence a gallon of porter, no, one and fourpence a gallon of porter.

I got two shillings from Jack Power and I spent twopence for a shave for the funeral.

He accuses him of patching his plays together without caring twopence for credibility, of dealing in fantastic fables and impossible situations, of making all his characters talk in an artificial flowery language completely unlike that of real life.

Beef is tenpence to thirteenpence a pound, mutton about the same, bacon tenpence, pork tenpence, chickens four and twopence each.

And the three-and-six he got for the shift had to go for the rent, not even twopence for baccy, let alone a pint.

For after an atomic conflagration none of the world's libraries will be of any use and all the achievements that make us so proud will not be worth twopence, because they have disappeared, because they have been destroyed, because they have been atomised.

If they sell any at home, beside harder measure, it shall be dearer to the poor man that buyeth it by twopence or a groat in a bushel than they may sell it in the market.

The right-hand door showed the admission price, of twopence per person per visit.

She is afraid that death may enter her home and find her unprepared for a funeral, so she pays one penny weekly for each of her children and twopence for herself to some collection society.

Religiously they pay a penny or twopence a week for each of their children to some industrial insurance company for this purpose.

But we will assume for the purposes of our puzzle that twopence multiplied by twopence is fourpence.

Nay, the poor man cannot oft get any of the farmer at home, because he provideth altogether to serve the bodger, or hath an hope, grounded upon a greedy and insatiable desire of gain, that the sale will be better in the market, so that he must give twopence or a groat more in the bushel at his house than the last market craved, or else go without it, and sleep with a hungry belly.