Sentence example with the word 'halfpence'

halfpence

Last update: July 1, 2015


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When, therefore, the violent agitation in Ireland against Wood's halfpence (see Swift, Jonathan) made it necessary to replace the duke of Grafton as lord lieutenant, Carteret was sent to Dublin.   [Please select]

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And now are you all bobbish, and how's Sixpennorth of halfpence.   [Please select]

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"I'll take these halfpence," said he, "and here's a shilling for you."'   [Please select]

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Giles'; Halfpence and farthings, ring the bells of St.'   [Please select]

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Denny had a bad shilling, with a head on both sides, and three halfpence.   [Please select]

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It was two pounds five shillings and three-halfpence farthing sterling.   [Please select]

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Three halfpence an hour was the average wage of a working woman in England.   [Please select]

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The life of a boy on board a ship isn't one to be envied, I can tell you; he is at every one's beck and call, and gets more kicks than halfpence.   [Please select]

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A terrific panic set in, and so overwhelming was the sensation that the Ministers in the end found it necessary to cancel the patent, and suspend the issue of Wood's halfpence.   [Please select]

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