Rather a poor one, I should say, since you had to borrow a ninepence. |
I hate to borrow as much as Mother does, and I knew Aunt March would croak, she always does, if you ask for a ninepence. |
Fifteen hundred and twenty-seven pound, four and ninepence ha'penny,' replied Mr Scaley, without moving a limb. |
After all her painful traffic, the whole proceeds were perhaps half a dozen coppers, and a questionable ninepence which ultimately proved to be copper likewise. |
I was very much concerned for his misfortunes, and felt that any recognition short of ninepence would be mere brutality and hardness of heart. |
I should't tak ye to be aboon ninepence to t' shillin' at the varra most. |