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Looking for sentences and phrases with the word fourpenny? Here are some examples.
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Sentence Examples
| Now the fourpenny hop was great old crack as the boys and girls were there in their finery, dressed to kill, as they'd say. |
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| Sometimes it seems as if the world and his wife have turned up to add their fourpenny worth. |
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| He also introduced a groat, or fourpenny piece, but this larger coin did not establish itself until Edward III's reign. |
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Examples from Classical Literature
| The officer took me into the fourpenny sitting room, which was pleasant and beautifully clean, but had no fire lit. |
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| Leaving him I went in quest of a fourpenny lodging-house in the East End, and soon found one. |
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| I've been hunting you the way O'Mulligan's pup hunted the fourpenny bit through the bonfire. |
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| Talked to me like a Dutch uncle, 'e did, or some Hemperor snubbin' a fourpenny dosser. |
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| By an oversight a stereo of the penny value was dropped into the fourpenny plate and a fourpenny into the penny plate. |
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| And altogether I paid pretty dear for my monthly fourpenny piece, in the shape of these abominable fancies. |
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| After supper, he consoled himself with a pint of fourpenny ale. |
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| How does that agree with a fourpenny tax on a four-pound loaf of bread? |
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