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. |
Was in the army long enough to get a pension of ninepence a day. |
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. |
What do we want of two horses down here, at two and ninepence a day? |
Ninepence was the sum he had to take home every night, and there was not a halfpenny to spare. |