What is "tuppence"

Usage examples of "tuppence".

If Agatha Christie were writing today, would she replace Miss Marple, Hercule Poirot, and Terrence and Tuppence with an overworked, admittedly avaricious investment banker?

Now why, I can hear you asking, should the Anatolian Great Goddess give tuppence about the Germans?

Tuppence went over the stile into the churchyard, peaceful in the evening sun, and began to examine the tombstones as she had promised.

It was sealed round with adhesive plaster and firmly fastened down, but Tuppence, by the aid of Tommy's knife, soon managed to open it.

Tuppence ate bacon and eggs and had slices of thick bread and butter and praised the blackberry jelly, homemade, her favourite kind, she truthfully announced, and did her best to absorb the flood of information so that she could write notes down in her notebook later.

Tuppence ate bacon and eggs and had slices of thick bread and butter and praised the blackberry jelly, home-made, her favourite kind, she trutlffully announced, and did her best to absorb the flood of information so that she could write notes down in her notebook later.

And obediently Tuppence did out with it, telling the whole story from the forming of the Young Adventurers, Ltd.

It wanted some five minutes to eleven when Tuppence reached the block of buildings in which the offices of the Esthonia Glassware Co.

Tuppence murmured vaguely of past years of Service abroad - the domestic difficulties of life in England, gave details of a married son and a married daughter both with children and gently steered the conversation to the activities of Miss Bligh in Sutton Chancellor which were numerous - The Women's Institute, Guides, Scouts, the Conservative Ladies Union, Lectures, Greek Art, Jam Making, Flower Arrangement, the Sketching Club, the Friends of Archaeology - The vicar's health, the necessity of making him take care of himself, his absentmindedness - Unformrmte differences of opinion between churchwardens Tuppence praised the scones, thanked her hostess for her hospitality and rose to go.

Vandemeyer was sitting almost facing it, and Tuppence respected her mistress's lynx-eyed powers of observation.

In fact I thought that for tuppence, for a packet of small cigars, I'd give up the law and spend the rest of my life in a pair of old plimsolls and grey flannel bags, shrimping on the beach at Coldsands.

I was there for eleven minutes, which makes twenty-two stivers: that’s two and tuppence, brings it to nine marks two.

Instead it was Marriott, always Marriott, who, with his tuppence worth of education, was unable to rid himself of the idea that he was superior to the illiterate men who were his fellow recruits.

Shit, I thought, theyve had their tuppence worth, why cant they just leave me alone?

Honoria put her tuppence worth into the discussion over whether sprigged muslin would still be all the rage next Season.