twopences

If you grow too eager for your twopence, the acquisition or the loss of it may affect your peace of mind, and peace of mind is better than any amount of twopences.

Roundabout Papers 2006

Here on Saturday nights from seven till ten he took an almost innumerable succession of twopences from the farm laborers who flocked thither in crowds from the country.

The Woodlanders 2006

Life The first time I heard copper money -- penny and twopences described at shrapnel was at university.

Shrapnel 2004

It was pleasant to see the Ladies Amelia and Alexandrina, as they sat within a vast emporium of carpets in Bond Street, asking questions of the four men who were waiting upon them, putting their heads together and whispering, calculating accurately as to extra twopences a yard, and occasioning as much trouble as it was possible for them to give.

The Small House at Allington 2004

The Dramatis Personæ are on the platform outside; the venerable Mr. MARTIN is exhorting the crowd to step up and witness his domestic tragedy, while the injured MARIA, is taking the twopences at the door; WILLIAM

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, October 22, 1892 Various

Whereupon Ciccio quite amicably gave the porter two nickel twopences in addition to the sixpence, whereupon the porter quite lovingly wished him "buon 'viaggio."

The Lost Girl 1907

"Two twopences don't make eightpence," retorted the florid gentleman hotly.

Sketches in Lavender, Blue and Green 1893

Here on Saturday nights from seven till ten he took an almost innumerable succession of twopences from the farm laborers who flocked thither in crowds from the country.

The Woodlanders Thomas Hardy 1884

And nobody questions that our "stooping" Officers and "begging Sisters" get the twopences and shillings and pounds needed to keep The Army going, in spite of all its critics -- whether of the blatant street-corner, or of the kid-gloved slanderer type.

The Authoritative Life of General William Booth 1881

After that I had a three-mile fare, and there were bags and boxes enough to have brought in a good many twopences if they had been put outside; but you know how people do; all that could be piled up inside on the front seat were put in and three heavy boxes went on the top.

Black Beauty Anna Sewell 1849