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n. (old penny English)
Usage examples of "old pennies".
Then, as he finished dressing, he opened the little drawer beneath his cufflink box--the drawer you might not realize was there unless you were specifically looking for a little drawer right there in that particular cufflink box--and in anticipation of the coming evening, removed one of the three remaining old pennies (the last of fourteen he had bought in the batch) and carried it into the living room.
As he unlocked the coin case, he made a mental note to stop down at the coin shop and pick up another batch of old pennies.
Blood smells sort of sweet and metallic like old pennies, or nickels, but a lot of blood smells like hamburger.
Nipples of that rare youthful pink, soft pubic bush, a color paler than old pennies.
Then he hurried across to the phone, aware only now that he was away from her that his heart was racing and his throat was lined with a taste like old pennies.
Yanks it free, and now her hands are stained slippery black and the blood makes the air stink like a jar of old pennies.
They gazed at him as if nothing he might say would stop them smiling, their eyes wide as old pennies stuck under the lids.
Her eyes were the size and color of old pennies and her makeup looked like it needed renewing at this hour of the day.
It was a dull kind of ache, accompanied by the bitter taste of old pennies in the back of her throat.
The taste of old pennies in the back of her throat, Claire staggered into the third floor hall as the elevator door started to open.
She sat on her stool like a jar of old pennies, feeling her insides scrape when she shifted.
Air rushed as we deflated our BCs, and we dipped back under water the color of old pennies.