Old British coin

Usage examples of sixpence.

Beale could introduce the little girl only, alas, by revealing to her so attractive, so enthralling a name: the side-shows, each time, were sixpence apiece, and the fond allegiance enjoyed by the elder of our pair had been established from the earliest time in spite of a paucity of sixpences.

Give him sixpence, or five shillings, or five pound ten--you are arithmeticians, and I am not--and get rid of him!

And Boshy, after the manner of all victors, unsatiated with homage, troubled incessantly how to make Pat the Jew, Pat the Dry Sixpence, bow the knee.

Was it to be expected that I should ride about the villages on Danseuse trawling for the Idle and sending them packing to the looms, succouring the Impotent with sixpences and chicken legs?

Ikey returned the copper coin to his dumby and found a silver sixpence which he handed backwards to the boy.

I blush to say that my venerated ancestor received from Goodman Hancock the painfully exiguous sum of no pounds, no shillings, and sixpence.

I was at Dungeon Ghyll, a little ravine among the English lakes, down which trickles an exceedingly small stream of water, but which is, nevertheless, very picturesque,--as I followed the old man who shows it for a sixpence, he asked if we had come a long way.

Old hens were held firmly at sixpence, and it is my experience that they always have to be, at whatever price.

I had a quarrel with a man about sixpence that he owed me, and knocked him over with my head, forgetting to take my hat off first.

I will even take sixpence in earnest of the berrord and lead his apes into hell.

I said I understood that a Mastership was an article the University could not do under about five pounds, and that I was not disposed to go sixpence higher than three ten.

It lay in his hand, and amounted to twelve shillings, a sixpence, two threepenny bits, and four pennies.

They shake out the threepenny bits and sixpences and coax out the pennies with the blade of a knife.

Amy was pleased to see, however, that there was none of the tense atmosphere she would expect from high gaming, and the coins in use were mainly pennies, thruppences, and sixpences.

Darwin was perfectly innocent of any intention of getting rid of mind, and did not, probably, care the toss of sixpence whether the universe was instinct with mind or no - what he did care about was carrying off the palm in the matter of descent with modification, and the distinctive feature was an adjunct with which his nervous, sensitive, Gladstonian nature would not allow him to dispense.