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farthing
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Farthing is a defunct British science fiction magazine. The magazine was based in London . Wendy Bradley was both the publisher and editor of the magazine.
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n. (context historical English) Former British unit of currency worth one-quarter of an old penny.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ NOUN penny ▪ The penny farthing made its first appearance in 1870 and was ridden round the world in 1884. EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ But what he had taken at first for raindrops on the wagon floor were actually pennies, halfpennies ...
Usage examples of farthing.
She knew that she was not so well known in Little Farthing, and here she proposed to get the second set of postal orders herself.
I told you it would be impossible to find a place for Joyce anywhere in Farthing, or Hanningford either, for that matter.
Marsden House had caused a considerable stir in Little Farthing, where the Strongitharm family was well known.
The orders turn out to have been issued by Farthing-on-Hone Post Office for one lot, and Little Farthing for the other.
His position at Farthing had undergone a most unpleasant change, which he could only attribute to the orders he had been given by Inspector Stewart.
But it was not until two days later that Rose told her the latest news from Farthing, news that seemed only to confirm all the former suspicions.
She walked across the fields to Little Farthing, where she found Fiona Goddard weeding her rockery.
But the last slanting rays of gold fell on the willows by the river bank, and Joyce stood for a long time, looking across the hedge and the meadow, thinking of the river and of Little Farthing on the other side of it where her new friend Fiona Goddard lived.
One farthing was all that could be demanded for a mass for the dead, and the priest was bound to give change for a half-penny when requested or forego his fee.
A Flat Iron for a Farthing, by Juliana Horatia Ewing This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever.
Title: A Flat Iron for a Farthing or Some Passages in the Life of an only Son Author: Juliana Horatia Ewing Illustrator: M.
I once delighted to purchase, can still be obtained for a farthing each, I have lived too long out of the world of toys to be able to tell.
We used to cut small models of clothes out of white paper, and then iron them with the farthing iron.
The Uttermost Farthing THE UTTERMOST Farthing I THE MOTIVE FORCE It is not without some misgivings that I at length make public the strange history communicated to me by my lamented friend Humphrey Challoner.
What matters it the seven-thousandth part of a farthing who is the spiritual head of any Church?