... Before we went to bed he offered me sixpence to help me on my way, out of a scanty store he kept in the turf wall of his house; at which excess of goodness I knew not what to do...
Robert Louis Stevenson 「Kidnapped」
... could not be afforded under sixpence-halfpenny—and this is the necessity! ...
Thomas Clarkson 「The History of the Rise, Progress and Accomplishment of the」
..."But," I protested, "what's sixpence to you? You drink champagne allday...
Richard Harding Davis 「The Congo and Coasts of Africa」
...He had dug out the error, and atonce he celebrated the recovery of the single sixpence by giving metwenty-four shillings' worth of champagne...
Richard Harding Davis 「The Congo and Coasts of Africa」
...A smalldose of sulphate of magnesia twice a week in food—asmuch as will lie, not heaped, on sixpence for a 6-lb...
Mrs. Leslie Williams 「A Manual of Toy Dogs」
...Again, apples and a silver sixpence were put in a tub of water; theapples naturally floated on the top and the sixpence sank to thebottom...
Sir James George Frazer 「Balder The Beautiful, Vol. I.」
...The only way to make quitesure of hitting a witch-animal is to put a silver sixpence or asilver button in your gun...
Sir James George Frazer 「Balder The Beautiful, Vol. I.」
... The agent of the island employed the boys, and paid them a sixpence for every dozen birds, that he might sell the feathers...
Thomas Wentworth Higginson 「Tales of the Enchanted Islands of the Atlantic」
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