| Ninepence was the sum he had to take home every night, and there was not a halfpenny to spare. |
| Was in the army long enough to get a pension of ninepence a day. |
| Rather a poor one, I should say, since you had to borrow a ninepence. |
| I was very much concerned for his misfortunes, and felt that any recognition short of ninepence would be mere brutality and hardness of heart. |
| As it was pirated, so the price crept up, ninepence, one shilling, one shilling and sixpence, half-a-crown, and then it came out in instalments. |
| I should't tak ye to be aboon ninepence to t' shillin' at the varra most. |
