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"I 'll' ave to get a few pen'worth o 'coal an' wood an 'a screw o' tea an 'sugar.
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"I'll 'ave to get a few pen'worth o' coal an 'wood an' a screw o 'tea an' sugar.
The Dawn of a To-morrow Frances Hodgson Burnett 1886
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"It shall be lawful for any man to judge his six pen'worth, his twelve pen'worth, so to his eighteen pence, two shillings, half-a-crown, to the value of his place; provided always his place get not above his wit ...
A Book of the Play Studies and Illustrations of Histrionic Story, Life, and Character Dutton Cook 1856
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