| If you could kindly mention now, for instance, what nine times ninepence are, or how many shillings in twenty guineas, it would be so encouraging. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Ninepence was the sum he had to take home every night, and there was not a halfpenny to spare. |
