sevenpence

For instance, let us take two carlini — about sevenpence.

Pictures from Italy 2007

The cad asks for ten pounds, and is offered four and sevenpence: the encounter involves not just indebtedness and impropriety Schuld but also bartering, like the bartering Heidegger describes when discussing the Anaximander Fragment.

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At this moment a pale watery stuff called beer is sevenpence a pint in England.

Down and Out in Paris and London 2004

At present it is impossible to get a BED in any non-charitable institution in London for less than sevenpence a night.

Down and Out in Paris and London 2004

So far as my observation goes, no one in a lodging-house sleeps more than five hours a night — a damnable swindle when one has paid sevenpence or more.

Down and Out in Paris and London 2004

Next best, in point of cleanliness, are the Salvation Army hostels, at sevenpence or eightpence.

Down and Out in Paris and London 2004

Whether you pay sevenpence or a shilling, they are all stuffy and noisy, and the beds are uniformly dirty and uncomfortable.

Down and Out in Paris and London 2004

Paddy and I pooled our tickets, and received food which we could have got for sevenpence or eightpence at most coffee-shops.

Down and Out in Paris and London 2004

Above this come the common lodging-houses, with charges varying between sevenpence and one and a penny a night.

Down and Out in Paris and London 2004

I have yet sevenpence halfpenny that never saw father nor mother, which shall not be wanting, no more than the pox, in your necessity.

Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002