eight-pence

We worked it out to eight-pence ha'penny, or seventeen cents, for two men working three hours and a half.

HOPS AND HOPPERS 2010

Sheriff of Middlesex — “One hundred and sixty-six, six and eight-pence, at the suit of Mr. Nathan.”

Vanity Fair 2006

I can buy one as large as my head for the value of an English penny: but one of the best and largest, weighing ten or twelve pounds, I can have for twelve sols, or about eight-pence sterling.

Travels through France and Italy 2004

This made him cross, and he grew quite fierce when the cabman smote him for eight-pence more.

Erema Richard Doddridge 2004

[7] The parliamentary grants for the civil establishment of the provinces of Nova Scotia, Georgia, and East and West Florida, amount to _one million twelve thousand eight hundred and thirty-one pounds two shillings and eight-pence half-penny_, as the following account shews; -- and notwithstanding this vast expence, the king has _not_ received any quit-rents from these provinces.

Report of the Lords Commissioners for Trade and Plantations on the Petition of the Honourable Thomas Walpole, Benjamin Franklin, John Sargent, and Samuel Wharton, Esquires, and their Associates 1772 Great Britain. Board of Trade

The First Commissioner of Oaths states that "twopenny damns" will, until further notice, be eight-pence each.

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, April 16, 1919 Various

The standard at which currency was fixed by this proclamation, was at an hundred and thirty-three pounds, six shillings and eight-pence _per cent_.; but this regulation, however convenient and advantageous to trade, was afterwards little regarded in these provinces, and the confusion of current money continued and prevailed.

An Historical Account of the Rise and Progress of the Colonies of South Carolina and Georgia, Volume 1 Alexander Hewatt

The season of 1838-39 was a poor one for the farmer: flour rose in price to 60s. the cwt.; and the quartern loaf, before I left the Colony, was selling as high as two shillings and eight-pence.

Trade and Travel in the Far East or Recollections of twenty-one years passed in Java, Singapore, Australia and China. G. F. Davidson

So these charges were often increased; in time instead of a penny the habitant had to pay three-pence, six-pence, and even eight-pence, an acre; the seigneurs, as

A Canadian Manor and Its Seigneurs The Story of a Hundred Years, 1761-1861 George M. Wrong

The private men were allowed sixpence a day, over and above their pay as soldiers: a corporal had eight-pence, and a sergeant a shilling; but this extra pay was only for working-days, which were often interrupted by violent storms of wind and rain, from the heights and hollows of the mountains.

The Jacobite Rebellions (1689-1746) (Bell's Scottish History Source Books.) James Pringle Thomson