What is "pennyworth"

Usage examples of "pennyworth".

Pennyworth told me how Avis listened behind that door on my first visit here, and I saw this time that it stood ajar.

Eva Pennyworth, Headmistress Chatterford Home for Women London Dear Eva, The bearer of this letter has been instructed to deliver it only to you, which is the proximate cause of his insistence upon seeing you, not the usual male arrogance.

The queen has placed such a restriction against Eva Pennyworth on the nest and Earth gates.

Elaine and Comus were indulging themselves in two pennyworths of Park chair, drawn aside just a little from the serried rows of sitters who were set out like bedded plants over an acre or so of turf.

On the following day Mr. Weevle, who is a handy good-for-nothing kind of young fellow, borrows a needle and thread of Miss Flite and a hammer of his landlord and goes to work devising apologies for window-curtains, and knocking up apologies for shelves, and hanging up his two teacups, milkpot, and crockery sundries on a pennyworth of little hooks, like a shipwrecked sailor making the best of it.

For them no automatic gas meter grudgingly doles out its niggardly pennyworths of gas.

This tract of land he bought at a very great pennyworth from the discoverers themselves (though some pretend to doubt whether they had ever been there) and then retailed it into several cantons to certain dealers, who carried over colonies, but were all shipwrecked in the voyage.